WADE 2025

WADE 2025

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7:00am PDT

Breakfast - Kingfisher Dining Hall Kingfisher Dining Hall

8:00am PDT

Icebreaker FlickerCori Turntine - Spokane CD Irrigation Efficiencies Program - More Crop Per Drop TadpoleJon Culp - SCC Capturing Conservation: Tips & Tricks for Field Photography Chapel TheaterAlexi Guddal - Whatcom CD • Toyo Garber - WSCC Tree-of-Heaven ID & Control Play BarnSusan Bird - Yakima Co Noxious Weed Board Biochar from a Conservation District Perspective Canyon WrenRobert Walters - Whatcom CD Capturing Conservation: Tips & Tricks for Field Photography Chapel TheaterAlexi Guddal - Whatcom CD • Toyo Garber - WSCC Strengths and Styles WoodpeckerCyndi Shaeffer - Snohomish CD Intros and Roundtable QuailFacilitated by Isaiah Wynter - Clark CD • Tristan Simons - Whatcom CD

9:00am PDT

2025 BARS Update FlickerChristie Cowgill - Assistant Audit Manager • Olivia Crouch - Assistant Audit Manager - SAO Fish Screening in Washington State TadpoleJosh Rogala - WDFW Harnessing AI for Conservation Education and Outreach Chapel TheaterAndrew Garber - WATech Spotted Lantern Fly & Stone Fruit Pests Play BarnJoshua Milnes - Wa State Dept of Ag Wildfire Ambassador Program Canyon WrenCharles Landsman - WA DNR Using Tableau for Data Analytics NuthatchAndrew Phay - Whatcom CD Habits, Skills, and Traits for Successful Leadership and Management (part 1) WoodpeckerJosh Monaghan • TBD Small Scale Nursery Development QuailJohn Knox - PMC

10:30am PDT

Comms: Unlocking the Power of Website and Google Analytics Chapel TheaterTBD Education: Designing High Impact Field Experiences TerraceAmy Dawley - Pacific Education Institute SAO - Internal Controls/Policy FlickerNiles Kostick - Center for Government Innovation - SAO Nature-based strategies for shores, by CDs (panel) TadpoleRyan Bartelheimer - Snohomish CD • Karin Streliof - PE - Thurston CD • Katrinka Hibler - PE - Thurston CD • Dakota Oliver - Mason CD • Jackson Blalock - Pacific CD Soil Health Basics and Grower Perspectives Play BarnMatt Williams - Predictive Nutrient Solutions Getting Landowners Motivated for Firewise USA Canyon WrenMarc Titus - WA DNR Smartsheets Automation NuthatchAndrew Phay - Whatcom CD Building Your Presence: Building Relationships and Connections In and Across Communities WoodpeckerVicki Carter - Spokane CD • Kristina Ribellia - Columbia Basin CD Salmon Safe QuailBrian Muegge - Salmon Safe

12:00pm PDT

CPO Meetup During Lunch Kingfisher Dining HallPaige DeChambeau - WSCC Lunch - Kingfisher Dining Hall Kingfisher Dining Hall Plant Sale Forum During Lunch WoodpeckerSummer Daugherty - Snohomish CD

1:30pm PDT

Fraud Prevention FlickerAlex Lycan - Special Investigations Program Manager - SAO Coastal monitoring to inform resilience and restoration projects TadpoleMichelle Gostic - PE - Section Manager - Applied Coastal Research and Engineering (ACRE) - ECY Comms: Making Websites and PDFs Accessible for Compliance Chapel TheaterTBD TBD Terrace Soil Acidification in Dryland Croping Systems Play BarnDr. Rachel Wieme - WSU Extension A Consulting Foresters View on Work w/ SFLO Canyon WrenColin Bransfield - Pacific Forest Management Whats new in ArcGIS NuthatchAndrew Phay - Whatcom CD How to De-escalate Situations WoodpeckerCyndi Shaeffer - Snohomish CD Riparian Grant Program Overiew and Q&A QuailAmy Martin - WSCC

2:30pm PDT

Grants Round Table FlickerVarious CD Staff From Issue to Action: Floodplain project development and engagement Chapel TheaterJodi Prout - WSCC • Stephen Allen - Pend Oreille CD • TBD From Issue to Action: Floodplain project development and engagement Chapel TheaterJodi Prout - WSCC • Stephen Allen - Pend Oreille CD • TBD Mastering Time Management for Effective Outreach Play BarnDistrict Presenters From Issue to Action: Floodplain project development and engagement Chapel TheaterJodi Prout - WSCC • Stephen Allen - Pend Oreille CD • TBD Indigenous Forest Stewardship Canyon WrenLindsey Crofoot - Indigenous Ethnobotanist Managing ArcGIS Online NuthatchAndrew Phay - Whatcom CD Habits, Skills, and Traits for Successful Leadership and Management (part 2) WoodpeckerJosh Monaghan • TBD From Issue to Action: Floodplain project development and engagement Chapel TheaterJodi Prout - WSCC • Stephen Allen - Pend Oreille CD • TBD

4:00pm PDT

Wrap-up & Reflect FlickerFinance & Admin Staff Drone-based LiDAR Collection and Processing TadpoleSamantha Elliott - Snohomish CD Growing Success in Conservation Plant Sales Chapel TheaterStephen Allen - Pend Oreille CD • TBD Carbon sequestration BMP’s for both aquaculture and agriculture Play BarnJackson Blalock - Pacific CD • Karen Hills - WSCC Silvopasture Canyon WrenCarrie Brausieck - Agroforestry Northwest Drone-based LiDAR Collection and Processing TadpoleSamantha Elliott - Snohomish CD Engaging and Empowering Boards WoodpeckerHeather McCoy - Whidbey Island CD • Sarah Moorehead - Thurston CD Lawn Social QuailEveryone

5:00pm PDT

VSP Meet Up GrottoMike Poteet - WSCC

6:00pm PDT

Dinner - Kingfisher Dining Hall Kingfisher Dining Hall

7:30pm PDT

Envirothon Trivia Night at the Grotto Kingfisher Lawn