Women in Wildlife Conservation - Resources to Set a Stewardship Path

The Inn on Barons Creek,
308 S. Washington St., Fredericksburg, TX 78624

October 3-4 2016

 

Day 1 WILDLIFE RESOURCES ON YOUR PROPERTY

7:30 – 8:30 am – Registration/Breakfast

8:30 am – Welcome
8:30 a.m. – Land Management and the Story of Hope – Colleen Gardner, Selah Bamberger Ranch Preserve
9:30 a.m. – Habitat Management: Job #1 - – Annaliese Scoggin, TPWD
10:30 a.m. – Break
11:00 a.m. – Rainwater Harvesting to View Wildlife at Home and in the Field – Billy Kniffen
12:00 – LUNCH
1:00: p.m. – Key Points for Developing Hunting Lease Agreements – Jason Johnson
1:30 p.m. – Becoming a Master Naturalist – Mary Pearl Meuth
2:00 p.m. – Deer Management in 1 Hour – The Fundamentals – Annaliese Scoggin
3:00 p.m. – BREAK
3:30 p.m. – What Women Need to Know About Finances and Their Hunting Enterprise – Jae Jones Thompson, Capital Farm Credit
4:30 p.m. – Stewardship in the Edwards Plateau: The Next Generation – Megan Clayton
5:30 p.m. –Panel Discussion – Traveling a Little Further Down the Stewardship Path
6:30 p.m. – Dinner and Music
Day 2  HILL COUNTRY TOUR
7:00 a.m. – Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – Load Tour Buses/Vans- for tour of the Texas Hill Country with several stops to visit different enterprises.
8:45-9:45 – Whitney and Wynn Whitworth Ranch, Sisterdale, TX
9:45-10:45 – Plant ID and Track ID AgriLife Extension Specialists
10:45-11:15 – Load Buses and travel to Singing Water Vineyards
11:15-11:45 – Honey Bee Management
12:00 12:30 – Singing Water Vineyard Wine Tasting and Tour
12:30-1:15 – Lunch with Cindy Zoeller
1:15 -1:50 – Hand out Certificates and Survey Instruments
1:50-2:15 – Load buses and travel to Chris Summers Ranch Sheep Farm
2:15-3:00 – Dinosaur tracks – Dinah Zike, Comfort, TX
3:00- 4:00 – Chris Summers discussion of sheep production in the Edwards Plateau 3:30-4:30 – Lamb samples and wine tasting by Lost Draw Cellars
4:30 – Load buses and return to Fredericksburg.

Time: Day 1 - 7:30 am - 6:30 pm, Day 2 - 7 am  - 4:30 pm
Cost: $75 for 2 day conference/onsite
Register: https://agriliferegister.tamu.edu/index.cfm/productDetails/productid/1981/
Contact Person: Linda Francis, Soil & Crop Sciences, Ph. 979-845-2425, l-francis@tamu.edu