2011 Annual Priority Actions
Action Items for this year:
A. Administrative Subcommittee:
- Write grants (e.g. Pulling Together Initiative)
- Identify new funding sources/ maintain list of funding sources
- Coordinate grant activities within membership
- Plan and conduct spring and fall membership meetings
- Coordinate elections
- Produce annual report flyer for spring meeting
- Review and Coordinate comments on NYANZA Restoration Plan
B. Control Subcommittee:
- Conduct 4 round table discussions
- Work with The Trustees of Reservations and The Nature Conservancy to adopt/ develop guidelines for management practices in wetlands.
- Conduct Site visits to actively managed sites throughout watershed
- Maintain list of funding sources
C. Early Detection/ Rapid Response Subcommittee:
- Write grants (e.g. Pulling Together Initiative)
- Identify new funding sources/ maintain list of funding sources
- Coordinate grant activities within membership
- Plan and conduct spring and fall membership meetings
- Coordinate elections
- Produce annual report flyer for spring meeting
- Review and Coordinate comments on NYANZA Restoration Plan
D. Education and Outreach Subcommittee:
- Direct CISMA web site development to its final launch
- Enlist and organize web content from CISMA membership
- Oversee Highway training implementation
- Create informational packets for conservation commissions and natural resources depts.
- Make marketing materials, such as buttons, bumper stickers, etc.
- Create Dirty Dozen poster(s) for distributionAction Items for this year:
- Early Detection/ Rapid Response subcommittee:
- Conduct 5 field trips for invasive and invasive look alike plant identification
- Provide support to New England Wild Flower Society’s Early Detection/ Rapid Response grant
- Survey/ Map watershed for rare plants
- Conduct plant identification trainings for partners
- Update equipment sharing document and post on Website when finished
- Evaluate and conduct highway training