GSS Facilitates Sessions at SWS Annual Meeting

During the last week of June, GSS Director Andy Robertson and Natural Resource Analyst Kathy Allen travelled to Spokane, WA, for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Wetland Scientists (SWS). They partnered with the National Association of Wetland Managers (NAWM) to facilitate a symposium titled, “Passing the Torch: Engaging Tribal Communities and Youth in Wetland Conversation through Education and Activity”. Speakers at the symposium included representatives from the Spokane Tribe and Tulalip Tribes, both of Washington, and the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho. GSS also partnered with NAWM to host a Tribal Roundtable Forum on sustainable wetland program funding for tribes. While in Spokane, Andy and Kathy also met up with other GSS project partners attending the meeting and visited several interesting wetland areas, including the Coeur d’Alene Basin (in northern Idaho), Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in the Channeled Scablands, and several points on the Spokane River.