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SCB BUSINESS MEETING

P. Dee Boersma, President, Society for Conservation Biology

This year in Maryland, as at every annual meeting, SCB will hold a members business meeting. Attendance traditionally has been low. I hope that you'll make a special effort to attend this year's business meeting to learn about SCB's accomplishments during the past year and help chart our future. Members are the strength of our organization, and we need your input. This past year, SCB started several new projects that may interest you.

Twenty graduate seminars at 19 universities reviewed nearly 200 recovery plans for species listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. We hope that such educational opportunities will become a hallmark of SCB.

SCB is starting a new publication directed at practitioners. Our goal is to make current conservation biology tools, techniques, and case studies--successes as well as failures--more accessible to managers, policy makers, and others who may have neither access nor time to review the original or academic literature.

SCB has embarked on a long-term strategic planning process, and we would like your input.

I have started planning a workshop to develop an agenda for a global strategy for conserving biodiversity.

These are exciting times for SCB, and more membership involvement is needed to successfully complete these and other projects. The Board of Governors hopes to see you at the members meeting.

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