NATA Workshops
Core courses for the Certificate in Natural Areas Management:
Conservation Site Assessment and Planning
This workshop teaches participants to build their site assessment and planning skills to effectively guide their management work over a multi-year period.
Participants learn:
- Comprehensive site assessment techniques
- How to set conservation priorities and identify threats
- How to develop effective management plans
- How to deal effectively with competing management needs in the planning process
Managing for Diversity Across Florida’s Unique Landscapes
This workshop teaches participants management and restoration approaches for conserving Florida’s biodiversity.
Participants learn:
- Identification of factors that cause and support Florida’s high biodiversity
- Use of management practices to restore ecological processes and natural communities
- How to identify and control invasive non-native species that threaten biodiversity
Working Across Boundaries to Protect Ecosystems
This workshop provides land managers with information and tools useful in managing natural areas as part of a larger ecosystem in coordination with neighboring land owners.
Participants learn to:
- Explore ecosystem management theory and its relevance to conservation practice
- Identify and address threats arising outside property boundaries
- Discover strategies that bring agencies and individuals together to seek common solutions
- Develop consensus-based facilitation skills to effectively communicate with neighbors
Managing Visitors and Volunteers in Natural Areas
This workshop provides guidance on how to integrate visitors and volunteers into natural areas management.
Participants learn:
- How managers have successfully dealt with issues related to visitor use
- How different models of volunteer programs are used and implemented
- Effective interpretation techniques and materials
- How to implement Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines
Interagency Prescribed Fire Training
The Interagency Prescribed Fire Training is administered by the Florida Forest Service and is a required component of the Certificate in Natural Areas Management. Participants must provide evidence of successful course completion to receive course credit. This 40-hour course is designed to train personnel in the basics of prescribed fire management, and is designed for students with little or no prescribed fire knowledge or experience. More information regarding this workshop can be obtained through the Florida Forest Service. To register for this workshop, please click here.
