Incorporating the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) Framework into Resource Management Planning: RAD Perspectives
In this "RAD Perspectives" webinar, RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) practitioners from the National Park Service, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discuss what RAD is and how they use this framework to inform their management planning efforts to reach their resource management goals. It is part of the webinar series: "Incorporating the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) Framework into Resource Management Planning".
Webinar Date
July 24, 2025 at 3 PM ET
Webinar Series Summary
The National CASC is hosting a quarterly webinar series on the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) framework, a tool that helps resource managers make informed choices for responding to change. This series focuses on examples of RAD implementation and reflects on practical applications of RAD concepts.
Webinar Summary
In this "RAD Perspectives" webinar, speakers Melonee Montano and Dr. Daniel Wildcat have a conversation on what are Indigenous Knowledges and what it means to ethically engage with Indigenous Knowledges in resource management and conservation spaces.
More about the Speakers
Gregor Schuurman (PhD) is an ecologist with the National Park Service Climate Change Response Program. He works with parks and partners to understand and adapt to a wide range of climate change impacts. His work focuses on 1) incorporating climate science into management and planning, 2) producing and synthesizing management-relevant science, and 3) developing climate change adaption tools and concepts.
Aaron Shultz (PhD) is the Climate Change Inland Fisheries Biologist for the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC). Making his way from the the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the Upper Peninsula, Shultz now works with GLIFWC to coproduce research that influences the management of resources across the Ceded Territory. He strives to marry scientific ecological knowledge with traditional ecological knowledge (i.e. "two eyed seeing") when making recommendations about our relatives (resources).
Nicole Ward (PhD) works at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and supervises a Long Term Resource Monitoring field station in Lake City, MN – one of six field stations in the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program (a partnership between the US Army Corps of Engineers, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, and state agencies in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri). Nicole’s interdisciplinary research interests lie at the intersection of ecosystem change and human decision making.
Nifer Wilkening (PhD) serves as a research ecologist for the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System. Her research has focused on climate change in desert and mountain ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the use of a habitat specialist species to identify, interpret and model climate change impacts.
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In this "RAD Perspectives" webinar, RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) practitioners from the National Park Service, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discuss what RAD is and how they use this framework to inform their management planning efforts to reach their resource management goals. It is part of the webinar series: "Incorporating the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) Framework into Resource Management Planning".
Webinar Date
July 24, 2025 at 3 PM ET
Webinar Series Summary
The National CASC is hosting a quarterly webinar series on the RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) framework, a tool that helps resource managers make informed choices for responding to change. This series focuses on examples of RAD implementation and reflects on practical applications of RAD concepts.
Webinar Summary
In this "RAD Perspectives" webinar, speakers Melonee Montano and Dr. Daniel Wildcat have a conversation on what are Indigenous Knowledges and what it means to ethically engage with Indigenous Knowledges in resource management and conservation spaces.
More about the Speakers
Gregor Schuurman (PhD) is an ecologist with the National Park Service Climate Change Response Program. He works with parks and partners to understand and adapt to a wide range of climate change impacts. His work focuses on 1) incorporating climate science into management and planning, 2) producing and synthesizing management-relevant science, and 3) developing climate change adaption tools and concepts.
Aaron Shultz (PhD) is the Climate Change Inland Fisheries Biologist for the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC). Making his way from the the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the Upper Peninsula, Shultz now works with GLIFWC to coproduce research that influences the management of resources across the Ceded Territory. He strives to marry scientific ecological knowledge with traditional ecological knowledge (i.e. "two eyed seeing") when making recommendations about our relatives (resources).
Nicole Ward (PhD) works at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and supervises a Long Term Resource Monitoring field station in Lake City, MN – one of six field stations in the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program (a partnership between the US Army Corps of Engineers, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, and state agencies in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri). Nicole’s interdisciplinary research interests lie at the intersection of ecosystem change and human decision making.
Nifer Wilkening (PhD) serves as a research ecologist for the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System. Her research has focused on climate change in desert and mountain ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the use of a habitat specialist species to identify, interpret and model climate change impacts.
Webinar Recording
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