Conservation intelligence

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If you missed the chance to participate in a great program at our annual conference in Rochester, you've another chance coming up sooner than you think. If you were lucky enough to participate this year, you won't want to miss the chance to do it again soon. So either way, put July 22 to 26, 2006 in Keystone, Colorado on your calendars now.

We have just finished the 2006 Call-for-Papers now. It may be in your email inbox by the time your read this column in the Journal. We've changed the way we are approaching the call-for-papers this year based on what we've heard from presenters and participants over the past few years. In the past, we've defined three or four specific topic areas and detailed subtopic areas and required you to make your work fit into our categories. This year, we instead are defining what we think are ongoing, core areas of conservation science, practice, and policy that should be the foundation of our annual conference every year. Each year, then, participants will know they can expect to find papers, posters, and symposia reporting the results of research, testing, monitoring …