20th Annual BCFO Conference, Revelstoke, BC

Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, May 28, 2010
6:00 - 9:00 pm

Registration & Social Hour @ Powder Springs Inn.
Presentation at 8:00 PM:  An introduction to Revelstoke and our host organization, the Friends of Mt. Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks by its executive director, Neills Kristensen

 
SATURDAY, May 29, 2010
5:30 am Breakfast & Field Trips from Powder Springs Inn, return by 11:45
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Catered Lunch @ Powder Springs Inn

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Technical Session @ Powder Springs Inn:
Speaker A - Ed Hill, BC Hydro: Birds, Bees and Boardrooms
Speaker B - Christine Rock, Simon Fraser Univ: Raising the young you never wanted: the impacts of Brown-Headed Cowbird brood parasitism on female Yellow Warblers breeding in Revelstoke, BC.

2:00 - 2:30 pm Break
2:30 - 3:45 pm

Technical Session @ Powder Springs Inn:
Speaker C - Cyndi Smith, Parks Canada:  Bioacoustical monitoring of breeding songbirds in the mountain national parks.
Speaker D - Jo Ann MacKenzie:  BCFO in Taiwan.

3:45 - 5:30 pm Annual General Meeting @ Powder Springs Inn
6:00 - 7:00 pm Social Hour @ Powder Springs Inn, (Cash Bar)
7:00 - 10:00 pm

Banquet @ Powder Springs Inn
Keynote Speaker, John Woods:  A Naturalist in the Western Mountains.

 
SUNDAY, May 30, 2010
5:30 am

Breakfast & Field Trips from Powder Springs Inn, return by 11:45

12:00 - 1:00 pm Catered Lunch @ Powder Springs Inn and wrap up