IRRMA Conference Schedule

THURSDAY, September 23, 2004
10:00 - 16:00	Field Trip - Restoration and Management of Montane Ecosystems ― Lower Bow Valley
17:30 - 19:30	Dinner - Included in package A only
18:00 - 19:30	Registration in Max Bell Lobby
19:30 - 20:00	Welcome - Max Bell Auditorium
20:00 - 21:00	Keynote Panel Interdisciplinarity ― The Decision-makers' Reaction. - Panel includes: Jillian Roulet (Superintendent, Banff National Park), Judy Stewart (Mayor of Cochrane, Alberta), Nik Lopoukhine (Director General, National Parks Directorate), and a representative of the Stoney First Nation. Moderator is Robert Sandford. - Max Bell Auditorium
21:00	Opening Reception - Max Bell Lobby
FRIDAY, September 24, 2004
9:00 - 10:30	Plenaries Bruno Messerli Martin Price Perspectives on Knowledge and Management Integration: - From the history of the Swiss MAB program - From the future of global change
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, tea, juice and conversation
11:00 - 12:00	Concurrent Sessions
	Case study: Africa Fidelis Kaihura: People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) on the slopes of Mount Meru, Tanzania. Case study: Europe Jonathan Mitchley: Scenarios for reconciling biodiversity conservation with declining agricultural use in the mountains of Europe (BioScene) Case study: North America Monique DiGiorgio and Julia Kintsch: Southern Rockies Wildlands Network VISION in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. Case study: Canadian Rockies Judy Otton, Suzanne Bayley, Kim Endres, Mike McIvor, Brent Ritchie, Stephen Woodley and Douglas Leighton: Ten Years After: The Banff Bow Valley Study.
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch in Main Dining Room - Donald Cameron Hall
13:30 - 15:00	Plenaries Ted Binnema Jack Broughton Perspectives on Integration: - From History - From Anthropology
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee, tea, juice and conversation
15:30 - 17:30	Concurrent Sessions
	Case study: Africa Case study: North America Mike Walton, Paula Banks, Robin Bradasch: Healing broken connections: Kluane National Park and Reserve Traditional Knowledge and Regional Integration Case study: Canadian Rockies Tom Hurd, Jillian Roulet, and Pam Veinotte: Implementing the 1997 Banff National Park Management Plan I (Corridor Restoration and Heritage Tourism)
	Case study: Australia Stuart Johnston and Roger Good: Ecological Restoration, Habitat Rehabilitation and Ecological Sustainability – Transgrid High Voltage Transmission Lines in the Snowy and Brindabella Ranges Case study: North America Daniel Fagre: Global-scale environmental changes in mountain protected areas, the CLIMET project Case study: Canadian Rockies Dave McVetty, Derek Petersen, and Steve Donelon: Implementing the 1997 Banff National Park Management Plan II (Human Use and Restoration Initiatives)
17:30 - 19:30	Dinner in the Main Dining Room - Donald Cameron Hall
19:30 - 21:30	Poster sessions and Reception - Max Bell Lobby and Fishbowl
SATURDAY, September 25, 2004
9:00 - 10:30	Plenaries Georg Grabherr Dave Mattson Perspectives on Integration: - From Plant Ecology - From Wildlife Biology
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, tea, juice and conversation
11:00 - 12:00	Concurrent Sessions
	Case study: South America Marcela Cañón: Conservation of Global Importance, Biodiversity of Montane Forest and Paramo Ecosystems in the Colombian Massif Case study: North America Guy Greenaway, Danah Duke and Mike Quinn: The Crown of the Continent initiative in Montana, British Columbia and Alberta – a collaborative approach to assessing regional cumulative effects Case study: Asia Sandra Brown: What does the future hold: intensive mountain agriculture in Nepal Case study: Canadian Rockies Cliff White, Dave Dalman, Heather Dempsey, Mark Hebblewhite and Charles Kay: People, wolves, elk and aspen: restoring trophic interactions in the Bow Valley, Banff National Park
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch in Main Dining Room - Donald Cameron Hall
13:30 - 17:30	Free afternoon for sidebar meetings, networking, and exploring Banff on your own
17:30 - 19:30	Dinner in the Main Dining Room - Donald Cameron Hall
19:30 - 21:30	Best of the Banff Mountain Film Festival Award Winning Mountain Culture and Ecology films - Max Bell Auditorium
SUNDAY, September 26, 2004
9:00 - 10:30	Plenaries P.S. Ramakrishnan Hans Schreier Perspectives on Integration: - Subsistence Cultures to Sustainable Development - Interdisciplinarity and Watershed Management
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee, tea, juice and conversation
11:00 - 12:00	Concurrent Sessions
	Case study: Africa Jeremias Mowo: African Highlands Initiative - Lushoto District, Tanzania Case study: North America Francis Singer and Bob Joseph: The elk of Estes Park, Colorado Case study: North America Troy Merrill: Y2Y - Grizzly bear conservation in the Rocky Mountains of North America Case study: Canadian Rockies Kevin van Tighem, Jesse Whittington, Brenda Dobson, Alan Westhaver, Shawn Cardiff and Carolyn Duchoslav: Implementing the Jasper National Park Management Plan: Ecosystem science and involving people in restoration and recovery
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch in Main Dining Room - Donald Cameron Hall
13:30 - 14:30	Concurrent Sessions
	Case study: Europe Tomas Willebrand: The mountain Mistra programme Case study: Asia Kamaljit S Bawa: Interdisciplinarity in Action Research: An enterprise-based conservation project in the BRT Wildlife Sanctuary of Karnataka, India Case study: Canadian Rockies Dave Dalman, Bonita McFarlane, Ian Pengelly and Alan Westhaver: Alberta and Parks Canada Eastslopes Strategic Forest Management Plan Case study: Canadian Rockies Bruce Leeson: The Kananaskis 2002 G8 Legacy
14:30 - 16:00 - includes coffee break from 15:00 to 15:30	Concurrent Sessions
	•1	Lessons learned ― workshop 1: planning, scoping, and defining an interdisciplinary project
	•2	Lessons learned ― workshop 2: running an interdisciplinary project
	•3	Lessons learned ― workshop 3: implementing the results of an interdisciplinary project
16:00 - 17:30	Plenary Synthesis
20:00 - 22:00	Closing Banquet - Main Dining Room, Donald Cameron Hall