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    The NRLI Alumni Association has a dues structure of

    twenty-five dollars ($25) annually or one-hundredand twenty-five dollars ($125) for a life-time

    membership.

    These dues will support the Association in promotingalumni interaction with the program through

    sponsoring meet and greet socials at the various

    seminars around the state. Funds will also supportthe Associations web site and eventual alumni

    directory. Other suggested ideas have alsoincluded polo shirts, speaker fees, a reception atthe annual conference, etc.

    We encourage each of you to continue in yourparticipation with FNRLI through investing your time

    and money in the Association. I encourage you to

    attend a seminar(s) in your area and to contactBoard members (or your Class Representative) toask about the latest activities and events. Don'forget to send in those dues!

    Make payments to:

    FNRLI Alumni Association

    1065 NE Rio Pine Lane

    Jensen Beach, FL 34957

    Don't Forget Your Annual

    NRLI Alumni Dues!

    Your NRLI Alumni Board of Directors

    President: Bryan Fluech Class VIII

    Vice President: Teresa Watkins Class VII

    Secretary: Ed Dunne Class VI

    Treasurer: Dianne Hughes Class VIIIAnnual Meeting Coordinator: Tom Ostertag Class IX

    Past President: Deborah Burr Class IV

    DIRECTORS

    Ed Wright Class VIStan Bronson Class II

    Hank Vinson Class VII

    Paul Monaghan Class IXPat Gostel Class II

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    Promotion? New business venture? Award?NRLI Alumni want to know! We would love to include a mention of yourachievement in the upcoming eNewsletter. Please send your milestone to:[email protected].

    The 2009 Walt Reese Environmental

    Conservation Award recipient is anenergetic and enthusiastic teacher.

    She uses a wide variety of teachingmethods including workshops, field

    days, demonstrations, and volunteertraining. Prior to joining the CountyExtension Office in July of 2000, she

    was an environmental specialist withthe Florida Department of

    Environmental Protection. During hertenure, she has developed a highlyeffective marine science and natural

    resource educational program forboth youth and adults. She has been

    instrumental in educating community

    leaders, elected officials, and thegeneral public on issues such as

    wetlands, preservation, marineecology, seagrass awareness, stream

    restoration, and watershed

    stewardship. Her leadership andinvolvement has resulted in thedevelopment of numerous public andprivate interagency partners. She has

    presented at numerous state and

    Chris Verlinde, Class VII Wins Walt Reese Environmental

    ConservationAward Joshua Wilks, Class IX

    NRLI Alumni Milestones

    national professional conferences and is an

    active member of many professionalorganizations. A dedicated Extensionprofessional who has developed a highlyeffective education program, she is a valued

    co-worker and team player, not only locally,but across the state and region. Please join

    me in congratulating the 2009 Walt ReeseEnvironmental Conservation Award recipientChris Verlinde, Sea Grant Marine Extension

    Agent UF/IFAS Santa Rosa County Extension!!

    mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]
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    Congratulations to NRLI Class IX! Candice Kaswinkel

    Graduation of the Florida Natural Resources

    Leadership Institute, Class IX was held inGainesville on March 18-20, 2010.

    Graduating were Ginger Adair, NaturalResources Director Volusia County; Staci

    Braswell, Director of Government Relationsand Community Affairs, Florida Farm Bureau;Adrienne Dessy, Planner, City of FernandinaBeach; Scott Dudley, Lobbyist, Florida Leagueof Cities; Joy Hazell, Florida Sea Grant Agent,

    Lee County Extension; Jeff Hill, Assistant

    Professor, University of Florida Program inFisheries and Aquatic Sciences in the Schoolof Forest Resources and Conservation;

    Christopher Johns, Assistant Manager for TaterFarms in Hastings Florida; Gregory Lang,

    Director for the Cedar Key CommunityRedevelopment Agency; William Miller, Land

    Use Manager, Southwest Florida WaterManagement District; Paul Monaghan,Assistant Professor, University of Florida,

    Department of Agricultural Education andCommunications, Shenley Neely, Planning

    Director, Levy County, Robert Northrop,Extension Forester in Hillsborough County;Tom Ostertag, Listed Species

    Conservation Ecologist, Florida Fish andWildlife Commission, Emily Ott, Legal

    Assistant for McNeal and Yochim, P.L. inGainesville, Florida and Joshua Wilks,

    Watershed Coordinator and Planner forthe Blackwater River Foundation.

    Fellows presented results of theirpracticum at the Hampton Inn-Downtown and graduation ceremonieswere held at the Restaurant Ti Amo! in

    Gainesville. To read more on Class IXpracticum presentation please visit the

    NRLI website athttp://nrli.ifas.ufl.edu/alumni.shtml.

    Graduation was well attended by

    leaders from UF IFAS, Food andResources Economics Department, NRLIprogram staff, and NRLI Alumni

    representing all previous NRLI classes.

    The alumni were pleased to have theopportunity to visit with Drs. Roy Carriker

    and Burl Long; previous directors of NRLI.Dr. Thomas Obreza, the Interim Associate

    Dean for Extension presented the 15

    graduates with their certificates. Thecurrent Director, Dr. Laila Racevskis,

    presented the Honorary Director's Awardto Bryan Fluech. Bryan is an Alumnus

    from Class VIII, a member of the Alumni

    Association Board of Directors and aFlorida Sea Grant Agent.

    (continued next page)

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    He was recognized for his support of theNRLI program through his ongoing efforts in

    compiling and editing the AlumniNewsletter and for initiating and organizingthe first NRLI Regional Alumni Meeting for

    the South Central District.

    Dr. Burl Long presented the 4rd Annual Burl

    Long Award to Emily Ott. The Burl LongAward is a peer nominated award and

    given to the Fellow considered to have

    learned and changed the most as a result

    of their participation in NRLI. Deborah Burr,current Alumni Association President,presented the Alumni Award to Stan

    Bronson, the Executive Director of the

    Florida Earth Foundation and NRLI AlumnusClass II. Mr. Bronson was recognized for his

    continued support of NRLI though hisrecruitment efforts and his participation in

    the program. Ms. Burr also presented the

    Outstanding Achievement Award to

    Temperince Morgan, Policy Director forEverglades Restoration at the South

    Florida Water Management District for herkey leadership role in the Riverof Grass"Planning process. In addition to the

    annual awards given, a specialDistinguished Service award was

    presented to Roy Carriker, the foundingDirector of the Florida NRLI program. In

    addition, Dr. Carriker was designated aNRLI Alumnus for the Alumni Association.

    Congratulations to all fifteen NRLI Class IXgraduates and to the awardrecipients! The graduates of Class IX arenow part of a network of 177 naturalresource professionals in local

    government, state, and federal

    agencies, agriculture, private industry,and academia throughout the State ofFlorida who maintain contact through the

    NRLI Alumni Association.

    NRLI Class IX Graduation (Continued from previous page)

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    My first introduction to this years Alumni of

    the Year Award winner was when I was aClass IV fellow. The NRLI Project Team haddiscussed the NRLI Practicum requirement

    and some examples of past practicum wereshared. I remember thinking the exampleswere so impressive, and almost to the point

    of intimidating. Of those examples was the

    Biscayne Bay Signage Project, theEverglades Radio Network and a nonprofit

    organization, called the Florida Earth

    Foundation, whose mission is to bring peopletogether through education, public

    outreach, and facilitation to ensure thefuture integrity of Floridas environment and

    quality of life.

    Stan Bronson, Executive Director of FloridaEarth Foundation, is an alumnus ofNRLI ClassII and is this years NRLI Alumni of the Year

    NRLI Alumni of the Year Award- Stan BronsonDeborah Burr, Class IV

    Award. Stan took what started as a requiredNRLI practicum of the Florida Earth Foundation

    and has continued to promote thefundamental concept of NRLI - to work with alpeople to address the natural resources issues

    that face our state. Today, the Florida Earth

    Foundation serves as a model for addressing

    Floridas most critical environmental resource

    issues.

    One of the major functions of the Florida EarthFoundation is to educate the public, bringingexperts together to teach science and policy

    in the natural resource arena. Under Stans

    leadership, the Florida Earth Foundation has

    also become a global partner in the effort

    under UNESCO-IHE Institute for WateEducation. The reach of Florida Earth is broad

    spanning the globe through the use otechnology such as Facebook and Linkin and

    by building partnerships here in Florida and

    across the Atlantic. If you are not already a

    friend to Florida Earth be sure to add themlater to in order to stay up to date on the lateshappenings!

    Stan Bronson has been selected as this years

    NRLI Alumni of the Year Award recipient fo

    many reasons. Besides what started as a NRLPracticum and has now grown to a wellrespected global non-profit organization, Stan

    applies NRLI concepts within the issues that the

    Florida Earth Foundation helps to addressStans leadership at the FL Earth Foundationalso serves as a model for future NRLI fellows

    whether impressing or intimidating, but in theend inspiring them to make a difference inconserving Floridas natural resources through

    consensus building and educationaopportunities.

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    The NRLI Leadership Award is awardedannually by the NRLI AlumniAssociation to a person who has/is

    best demonstrated leadership andservice in resolving natural resource

    issues in the State of Florida. The firstannual NRLI Leadership Award was

    presented to Richard Pettigrew for hiswork on the ComprehensiveEverglades Restoration Plan. Other

    past award winners include CharlesPattison, President of 1000 Friends ofFlorida and Melissa Meeker, Vice

    President of Tetra Tech.

    This years NRLI Leadership Award

    recognizes a key leader in the plan torestore one of the worlds largest

    wetlands, the Florida Everglades. Ms.Temperince Morgan is the Policy

    Director for Everglades restoration atthe South Florida Water ManagementDistrict. She has played a key

    leadership role in the River of GrassPlanning process, beginning in January

    2009. This planning process wasinitiated by the South Florida WaterManagement Districts decision to help

    restore Floridas Everglades.

    Her contribution has paved the way

    for a shift in public perception from aproject that was once heavilycriticized to one that is now gainingsupport and acceptance.

    Temperince Morgan has promoted the

    Temperince Morgan receives NRLI

    Leadership Award Nominated by Ed Wright Class VI

    fundamental concepts of NRLI throughouther efforts to help restore Floridas

    Everglades.

    On behalf of the NRLI Alumni Association,

    it is my great pleasure to present the NRLILeadership Award to Ms. Temperince

    Mor an.

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    Teresa Watkins, Fellow and Vice President

    of the Natural Resources Leadership

    Institutes Alumni Association NRLI Class IX,

    has been named to serve on the national

    United States Green Build Councils

    Sustainable Sites Technical Advisory Group.

    Watkins was chosen for this volunteer

    position based on her experience with the

    USGBCs Homes Technical Advisory

    Subgroup Committee and with LEED, the

    Leadership in Energy and Environmental

    Design green certification program.

    Watkins is currently a Florida Water Star

    Specialist with St. Johns River Water

    Management District and environmentallandscaping consultant. Florida Water

    StarSM is a voluntary certification program

    for new and existing residential

    and commercial developments that

    encourages water efficiency in household

    appliances, plumbing fixtures, irrigation

    systems, and landscapes.

    A recognized leader on water

    conservation prior to serving on the USGBC

    LEED committee, Teresa Watkins designed

    the landscaping of the "first energy and

    environmentally efficient"

    NRLI Alumni in Action

    LEED-ing The Way Teresa Watkins, Class VII

    DREAM home in Florida to be certified as

    a "green home" by the Florida Build Green

    Coalition in 2001. Over 24,000 Central

    Florida residents have attended Teresas

    landscaping programs in the last ten years

    earning Ms. Watkins the AWWA's-FloridaWater Education Associations 2007 Public

    Education Award. She also teaches the

    Florida Master Naturalist Program.

    Teresa Watkinss professional background

    ranges from working with individual clients

    and homeowner associations to city,

    county, public and private water suppliers

    on water conservation and stormwater

    pollution education. National business

    publications, green builder magazines,

    Internet websites, and gardening

    magazines quote Teresas articles and

    philosophy of "ecologically-aware"

    gardening. Watkins hosts a weekly call-in

    radio show; "In Your Backyard" on WLBE

    790 AM showcasing environmental issues

    and landscaping advice across the state.

    You can find out more about the USGBC-

    LEED program athttp://www.usgbc.org/

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    Volusia County Environmental

    Management has been working withlocal utility companies to encourage

    them to provide better options for

    making streetlights compliant with stateand local rules for sea turtle protection.

    Many private and public facilities leasestreetlights from utility companies in

    coastal communities throughout Florida.

    Artificial lights can be problematic to seaturtles, especially hatching nests whichproduce dozens of turtles, because they

    are attracted to the bright, short

    wavelength lights. Lights disorient them

    in directions other than the ocean wherethey need to go. This makes them useup essential energy reserves needed for

    their offshore migration. Lights can also

    needlessly lead them into predation orother life threatening circumstances.

    Through NRLI practicum efforts made byJennifer Winters, Jane Provancha, and

    Dianne Hughes (class VIII), manystakeholders from the southeast region of

    Florida came to the table to discuss thesimilar problems they have with utility

    companies and to work on ways to

    resolve them. At a focus group meeting,information regarding existing andpotential options was shared. Since that

    time, Volusia County has been able to usethe information and contacts to work

    closer with their local utility companies onreaching some solutions to modify

    streetlights visible from critical sea turtlenesting habitat.

    Two solutions have been implemented inVolusia County. The first is that Volusia

    County worked with both of their utility

    companies to create a custom designed

    and wind-load approved 3 sidedstreetlight shield. Although slightlymodified according to the company

    making them, they have the same

    general design. These shields wereinstalled throughout Volusia County in

    2009.In one 5 mile stretch of beach with a

    relatively high amount of sea turtle nesting

    which previously had many disorientation

    events each season, and many streetlightsvisible from the beach, no sea turtlesdisoriented in the vicinity of these shielded

    lights in 2009. The shields properly blocked

    the light from the beach! The 3 sidedshield design has already been copied

    and is also being installed in other seaturtle nesting communities.(continued next page)

    NRLI Alumni Help Protect Sea Turtles Through

    Lighting Programs Jennifer Winters, Class VIII

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    The second solution that one of the power companys took on their own was to install

    photo cells on streetlights which must be turned off each season. These lights cannot be

    corrected with shields due to their close proximity to the beach. The photo cell isprogrammed to turn off the light seasonally. Instead of sending a turn off list (as many

    municipalities still do throughout the state) and then waiting for the lights to be turned offone by one, the lights are set to automatically turn off at the start of each nesting seasonand automatically come back on at the end. The photo cells are in the testing stage in

    Volusia County right now. There are high hopes that these photo cells will worksuccessfully and will be something that could be used in other parts of the state in the

    future. The photo cells will also reduce time, energy and resources spent manually turningoff and on each light.

    Sea Turtle Protection(continued from previous page)

    NRLI Alumni Teach Colleagues about MeetingManagement SkillsBryan Fluech, Class VIII

    In March several NRLI alumni got theopportunity to put their NRLI skills to practice

    by sharing with their colleagues some of thevaluable skills they learned while in NRLI.

    The traditional role of a University Extension

    Agent has been to provide content and letpeople choose their own path, but more

    often these days, extension agents are morefrequently being called upon to act asfacilitators for public deliberation and group

    decision making on contentious issues fromthe county government to the advisory

    committee level.

    Florida Sea Grant Agents BettyStaugler(class VI), Joy Hazell (class IX), and

    Bryan Fluech (Class VIII) along with PaulMonaghan (Class IX), who is a facultymember with the University of Florida's

    Department of Agricultural Education and

    Communication partnered with theNatural Resources Leadership Institute

    project team to offer a workshop forUniversity Extension faculty titled, " HelpingAgents Deal with Issues and Conflicts at

    Meetings."(continued next page)

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    Meeting Management Skills Workshop(continued from previous page)

    Training Leaders for Collaborative Environmental

    Management in the AmazonWendy-Lin Bartels, Class III

    NRLI Fellow of Class III, Wendy-Lin Bartels, shares news of an exciting field coursedeveloped for leaders in the Brazilian Amazon using NRLI principles and methods. In

    July 2009, the course brought together an interdisciplinary group of 23 participants from

    universities, government, private sector and social movements, in an effort to construct

    collaborative processes that reconcile competing interests for participatorymanagement of complex socio-ecological systems in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Building on more than 30 years of experience in the Amazon region through the Tropical

    Conservation and Development program (TCD), an innovative NRLI-like course wasdeveloped by the University of Florida, in partnership with regional NGOs as part of the

    Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative (ACLI). ACLI is similar to NRLI in that it worksto build capacity among leaders to advance science and conservation in the(continued next page)

    Twenty-five extension agents fromSouthwest Florida attended the day and

    a half training. The participants included

    eight County Extension Directors as wellas 4-H, Horticulture, Agriculture, and

    Urban Sustainability Extension Agents.Participants learned critical skills and toolsto plan effective meetings to encourage

    buy-in and participation from all

    stakeholders. These skills included: 1.creating a process that encourages full

    participation in decision making, 2.

    summarizing and framing issues, and 3.identifying and addressing difficultdynamics in a group meeting. Workshop

    attendees responses were overwhelming;

    more than one participant opined that the

    training should be mandatory for all agents

    and one participant stated it was one ofthe best in-service training in her 27 years asan extension agent. The organizers are inthe process of planning next steps including

    writing several topic-related fact sheets,offering the training again to a wideraudience and creating a supplement

    training that addresses specific tools forinclusive decision making.

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    Amazon-Andes region, with support

    from the Gordon and Betty Moore

    Foundation.

    Our NRLI-like field course emergedfrom two premises: a region like Alta

    Floresta on the Amazon frontier of

    Brazil (See Figure 1) can beunderstood as a complex socio-

    ecological system; and the socio-environmental management of such

    systems demands participation and

    dialogue among a diverse group ofsocial actors. Therefore, the course

    combined theories and methodsbased on the concepts of panarchyand resilience, and tools to promotedialogue between diverse interestgroups.

    Traditional science,compartmentalized in disciplines(ecology, social sciences, political

    science, economics), produces knowledge thatis valuable and useful, but insufficient to explainthe function of, for example, a region like theAmazon frontier. For more than a decade, a

    group of scientists such as Holling, Gunderson,

    Berkes and Folke (www.resalliance.org) havebeen developing theories about the function,

    management and resilience of so-calledcomplex socio-ecological systems. They

    recognized that, when considering large spatial

    and temporal scales, ecosystems are not staticor in equilibrium; rather they experience

    "adaptive cycles" of exploitation, conservation,liberation and reorganization, and the factorsthat cause these cycles originate in diverse

    domains such as economics, social, political andtechnology. Therefore, our field course sought to

    integrate natural and social science disciplines,in the actual context of Alta Floresta, Mato

    Grosso, Brazil -- part of a dynamic region knownas the Portal da Amazonia.

    The "experiential learning methodology of the

    course was adapted from the NRLI model. We

    emphasized working in groups with a diversity ofparticipants and local stakeholders representingdifferent disciplines and economic sectors:

    researchers and ranchers, professors and

    government agency personnel, loggers andNative Americans. Our participants studied real

    cases, such as a teek reforestation initiative, new

    legislation for licensing of land use, ecotourismand management of a protected area. We

    followed the NRLI steps: an initial lecture topresent the context for each case; field visits that

    provided access to local actors and conditionson the ground; and discussion panels withstakeholders representing diverse viewpoints and

    roles. (continued next page)

    Collaborative Environmental Management(continued from previous page)

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    Our interdisciplinary group of course participants also carried out structured reflection,

    discussion, and elaboration of analyses and recommendations. The concreteproducts of the group work were preliminary models of the interactions between

    critical socio-environmental variables in key regional sectors -- forest management,

    ranching and conservation -- and scenarios of possible futures with and without

    adequate socio-environmental management.

    The opportunity to hear directly from the protagonists -businessmen, small producers,

    Native Americans, union leaders, government officials and others -- enabled analysis of

    the decisions made by each of these, taking into account their values, motivations,interests and positions that are often not addressed in academic studies. For theparticipants, the course presented a new way of understanding and collaborativemanagement of the regional landscape, incorporating the theory of complex socio-

    ecological systems, evaluating innovative public policy options in the case studies, and

    using a methodology of direct interaction with groups of diverse stakeholders. Each

    participant will apply the content and methods from the course in their own researchand/or professional work.

    Next Steps: In July of 2010, the second NRLI-like course will be held in Brazil with the

    same group of leaders in an attempt to deepen our experience. During this time ourgroup will design an inter-institutional specialization course for Amazon Universities as

    well as a broader action-research program to examine collaborative and integratedsocio-environmental management of the region.

    Collaborative Environmental Management(continued from previous page)

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    Spread the Word!

    NRLI is Accepting Applications for Class X

    The first session of NRLI Class X will take place on

    August 12-14, 2010, in Cedar Key, Florida, and

    will deal with the issue of Impacts of Water

    Quality and Clam Farming on WaterfrontCommunities. Class X will meet monthly from

    August 2010 until March of 2011

    Applications for Class X are due by July 1, 2010.

    The 2010-2011 Florida Natural ResourcesLeadership Institute intends to emphasize the

    links between development of the builtenvironment and the stewardship of the natural

    environment

    To nominate a NRLI candidate, please fill outand submit thenomination form

    2010-2011 NRLI Schedule

    http://nrli.ifas.ufl.edu/pdfs/2010Nomination.pdfhttp://nrli.ifas.ufl.edu/pdfs/2010Nomination.pdfhttp://nrli.ifas.ufl.edu/pdfs/2010Nomination.pdfhttp://nrli.ifas.ufl.edu/pdfs/2010Nomination.pdf
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    Mark Your Calendar

    Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration

    Planning, Policy and Science Meeting

    "The Greater Everglades: A Living Laboratory of Change"July 12-16, 2010 Naples, FL

    www.confence.ifas.ufl.edu/GEER2010

    Florida Chambers 24th Annual Environmental

    Permitting Summer School

    July 21-23, 2010 | Marco Island Marriot Resort

    http://www.floridaenet.com/permitting.php

    FLERA 2010 Annual Conference

    Leveraging the Green RevolutionJuly 28-30, 2010 - Hyatt Regency Sarasotahttp://www.flera.org/conference.html

    National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration

    NCER 2011

    August 1-5, 2011 Baltimore, MD

    www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/NCER2011

    Whats on your calendar? Send any upcoming events, conferences, etc. for inclusion in the

    next eNewsletter to:[email protected]

    Resolving Conflict Through

    Leadership!

    Be a Part of the NRLI Alumni Newsletter!We encourage you to submit an article about a project you have beeninvolved with or one of interest to other NRLI alumni. Our next newsletterwill be published in fall 2010. Submissions must be received by Sept 1st tobe included in the next newsletter. Articles should be 500 words or less andpictures are encouraged. Please send submissions to Bryan Fluech at:[email protected]

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