Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies 110th Annual Meeting
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program

The following information is from the 2019 AFWA Annual Meeting. A preliminary schedule for the 2020 Meeting will be available in the Spring. 

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Schedule at-a-Glance

Related meeting requests are now being accepted for committees and working groups, universities, organizations, agencies, and others interested in holding a meeting or social function in association with the 108th AFWA Annual Meeting. Download the related meeting request form. 
The following schedule is subject to change (as of July 24, 2019); please check back for updates. 
Saturday, September 21, 2019
4:00pm – 7:00pm Conference Registration Desk Open TBD
Sunday, September 22, 2019
7:00am – 5:00pm Conference Registration Desk Open TBD
7:00am – 3:30pm Directors' Retreat (invitation only)
Lunch Sponsored by Brandt Information Services
Offsite
7:00pm – 5:00pm Business Center & Internet Café Open TBD
8:00am – 5:00pm Exhibitor Set-up TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm Bird Fish Conflict Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm MAT Team Workshop TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Drug Approval Working Group TBD
3:00pm - 5:00pm National Cooperators Coalition TBD
4:00pm – 6:00pm Women in Wildlife Conservation Network (WWCN) Power Walk and Networking TBD
6:00pm – 8:00pm Young Guns 11th Annual Happy Hour Offsite
6:00pm – 9:00pm Directors’ Reception & Dinner (invitation only)
Co-sponsored by Ducks Unlimited and Kalkomey
Offsite
Monday, September 23, 2019
7:00am - 8:00am Coffee Break with Exhibitors TBD
7:00am - 8:00am Directors' Breakfast (invitation only) TBD
7:00am - 5:00pm Conference Registration Desk, Business Center & Internet Café Open TBD
7:00am - 5:00pm Exhibits Open — Stop by and show your support! TBD
8:00am Guest Gathering Hotel Lobby
8:00am - 9:45am Welcome & Plenary Session TBD
9:30am - 3:30pm Guest Activity: Historic Fort Snelling and the Sibley Historic Site
(advance registration required; $40.00 per person; includes lunch)
We’ll have a private guide for a tour of Fort Snelling. This National Historic Landmark resides on Dakota homeland, known as Bdote, with history spanning 10,000 years. Learn stories of the military fort and its surrounding area, home to a wide history that includes Native peoples, trade, soldiers and veterans, enslaved people, immigrants, and the changing landscape. http://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling

We’ll have lunch inside the park and following lunch visit the Sibley Historic Site. The Sibley Historic Site is the site of Henry Hastings Sibley's home, who was the regional manager of the American Fur Company and Minnesota's first governor. It is one of the 26 historical sites that are operated by the Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnhs.org/sibley
Offsite
9:30am - 10:30am Coffee Break with Exhibitors TBD
10:00am - 11:00am EOD Pre-Meeting TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm National Pheasant Plan Management Board Meeting TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm Forestry Working Group – Ag Conservation TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm National Wildlife Health Initiative (Invitation Only) TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm Project Wild Subcommittee Meeting TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm Legislative Federal Budget Committee Meeting TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm Subcommittee on Water TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm International Relations Committee Meeting TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm PIF/Shorebird/Waterbird Working Group TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm National Grants Committee Meeting TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm Law Enforcement Business Meeting TBD
11:00am - 12:00pm Monarch Conservation Updates and MAMCS Board Meeting TBD
12:00pm - 1:00pm Directors' Lunch (invitation only) TBD
12:00pm - 1:00pm Attendee Lunch - On Your Own N/A
1:00pm - 1:30pm Finance Committee Meeting TBD
1:00pm - 2:00pm Wildlife Viewing & Nature Tourism Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 2:00pm Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards Ceremony TBD
1:00pm - 3:00pm Aquatic Animal Health Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 3:00pm USGS Science Applications for Fish & Wildlife Management TBD
1:00pm - 3:00pm Fish and Wildlife Relevancy in Minnesota TBD
1:00pm - 3:00pm Law Enforcement Committee Business Meeting TBD
1:00pm - 3:00pm Feral Swine Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative Council TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm CRP Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Invasive Species Committee Meeting TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Bird Conservation Committee Meeting TBD
1:30pm - 5:00pm Executive Committee Meeting TBD
2:00pm - 3:00pm Diversity & Inclusion Working Group TBD
2:00pm - 5:00pm Climate Change Committee Meeting TBD
2:30pm - 3:30pm Coffee Break with Exhibitors TBD
3:00pm - 5:00pm Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact Meeting TBD
3:30pm - 5:00pm Joint EOD & Wildlife Diversity & Conservation Funding Working Group TBD
3:30pm - 5:00pm Forest Service Partners Meeting TBD
5:00pm - 6:00pm Harvest Information Program Working Group TBD
5:00pm - 6:30pm Forest Service Partners Meeting – Working Session TBD
6:30pm - 8:30pm Welcome Social! Offsite: Science Museum of Minnesota
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
7:00am - 5:00pm Conference Registration Desk, Business Center & Internet Café Open TBD
7:00am - 8:00am Coffee Break with Exhibitors TBD
7:00am - 8:00am Directors' Breakfast (invitation only) TBD
7:00am - 7:00pm Exhibits Open — Stop by and show your support! TBD
8:00am Guest Gathering Hotel Lobby
8:00am - 10:00am Outreach Working Group TBD
8:00am - 10:00am Science and Research Committee Meeting TBD
8:00am - 10:00am Technology and Data Committee Meeting TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Wildlife Diversity Conservation and Funding Committee Meeting TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Waterfowl Working Group TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Sagebrush Executive Oversight Committee TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Legal Committee Business Meeting TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Joint Meeting of the EQIP/CSP Working Groups TBD
8:00am - 5:00pm AFWA/NACLEC Law Enforcement Meeting TBD
8:30am - 12:30pm Guest Activity: Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Bell Museum
(advance registration required; $25 per person; lunch is on your own)
We’ll start the day at the Minneapolis Institute of Art which is described as “inspiring wonder through the power of art. The Minneapolis Institute of Art enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world’s diverse cultures.”

Lunch will be on your own in downtown Minneapolis. After lunch, we’ll visit the Bell Museum in St. Paul, Minnesota’s official natural history museum and planetarium. Their new home on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus features a digital planetarium, high-tech exhibits, our famous wildlife dioramas, outdoor learning experiences and more.

Explore the far reaches of the universe in the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium, see a glimpse of the diversity of life on Earth and throughout Minnesota, travel back in time to meet a woolly mammoth, and learn about University of Minnesota researchers imagining a better future.
Offsite
9:00am - 12:00pm Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Committee Meeting TBD
9:00am - 12:00pm Fish & Wildlife Trust Funds Committee TBD
9:30am - 10:30am Coffee Break with Exhibitors TBD
10:00am - 11:00am Regional Coordinators Meeting TBD
10:00am - 11:00pm Ocean Resources Policy Committee Meeting TBD
10:00am - 11:00pm Human Wildlife Conflict Working Group TBD
11:00am - 12:00pm Human Dimensions and Social Science Organizational Meeting TBD
12:00pm - 1:00pm Directors' Lunch (invitation only) TBD
12:00pm - 1:00pm Attendee Lunch - On Your Own N/A
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lead and Fish & Wildlife Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 2:15pm Migratory Shore & Upland Game Bird Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 3:00pm Feral and Free-Ranging Cat Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 3:00pm Farm Bill Easements Working Group TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Fisheries & Water Resources Policy TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Resolutions Committee Meeting TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Sustainable Wildlife Use TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Energy & Wildlife Policy Committee Meeting TBD
1:00pm - 5:00pm Hunting & Shooting Sports Participating Committee TBD
1:30pm - 3:30pm Federal and Tribal Relations Committee Meeting TBD
1:30pm - 5:00pm Executive Committee Meeting TBD
2:15pm - 3:30pm Bird Conservation Committee Grassland Working Group TBD
2:30pm - 3:30pm Coffee Break with Exhibitors TBD
3:00pm - 5:00pm Bat Working Group TBD
3:00pm - 5:00pm Education Working Group TBD
3:00pm - 5:00pm RCPP Working Group TBD
3:30pm - 5:00pm Resident Game Bird Working Group TBD
5:00pm - 6:00pm Private Lands Social TBD
6:00pm - 7:00pm Reception with Exhibitors
Sponsored by National Park Service
TBD
7:00pm - 9:00pm Annual Awards Banquet TBD
7:00pm Arachnid Society Reception hosted by Vista Outdoor (invitation only) Offsite: Blackhawk Cove
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
7:00am - 8:00am Directors' Breakfast (invitation only) TBD
7:00am - 8:00am Coffee Break with Exhibitors TBD
7:00am - 3:00pm Conference Registration Desk, Business Center & Internet Café Open TBD
7:00am - 10:30am Exhibits Open — Stop by and show your support! TBD
8:00am Guest Gathering Hotel Lobby
8:00am - 10:00am MAFWA Executive Committee Meeting TBD
8:00am - 10:00am Bird Conservation Committee Meeting Part 2 TBD
8:00am - 10:00am Education, Outreach & Diversity Committee Meeting TBD
8:00am - 10:00am Wildlife Resource Policy Committee Meeting TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Legal Committee Meeting TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Fish & Wildlife Health Committee Meeting TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Agricultural Conservation Committee Meeting (Part 1 & 2) TBD
8:00am - 12:00pm Threatened & Endangered Species Policy Committee Meeting TBD
9:00am - 12:00pm Angler & Boater R3 Committee TBD
9:30am - 10:30am Coffee Break with Exhibitors TBD
10:00am - 12:00pm Leadership and Professional Development Committee Meeting TBD
10:30am - 11:30am NCLI business Meeting TBD
12:00pm - 1:00pm Directors' Lunch (invitation only) TBD
12:00pm - 1:00pm Attendee Lunch - On Your Own N/A
1:30pm - 5:00pm AFWA Business Meeting TBD
6:00pm - 7:30pm President's Reception
Sponsored by Boone and Crockett Club
TBD

THANK YOU TO OUR 2019 AFWA ANNUAL MEETING SPONSORS!

Sustaining Level Sponsor

USFWS

Platinum Level Sponsors

Bass Pro Shops
USDA APHIS
NOAA/NMFS Logo
Audubon
Federal

Gold Level Sponsors

USDA Forest Service Logo
Picture
National Shooting Sports Foundation

Silver Level Sponsors

Swarovski Optik
Aspira
RMEF
Archery Trade Association
Kalkomey
USDA NRCS Logo
Gordon-Darby
US Geological Survey
Guidefitter

Directors Meal/Special Event Sponsors

Brandt
Kalkomey
Bass Pro Shops
Archery Trade Association
WMI
Ducks Unlimited
NWTF
RBFF
S3

Bronze Level Sponsors

National Wild Turkey Federation
Airgun Sporting Association
Picture
National Park Service
Boone and Crockett Club
National Rifle Association
Brandt Information Services
Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
DJ Case & Associates
USDA NRCS

Signage Sponsor

Voss Signs
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