Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy
SECAS brings together public and private organizations around a bold vision for the future of our region. We're connecting the lands and waters of the Southeast and Caribbean to support healthy ecosystems, thriving fish and wildlife populations, and vibrant communities. With a data-driven spatial plan and an ambitious regional goal, SECAS helps accelerate conservation action in the places where it will make the biggest impact.
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Upcoming webinars in the SECAS Third Thursday Web Forum series. Visit the SECAS event calendar for more details and connection information. See the Fall 2023 Third Thursday Web Forum Schedule
Check out the flyer for the fall Third Thursday Web Forum series! These webinars are held on the third Thursday of each month at 10 am Eastern time. We hope you’ll join us. »Click here for an interactive pdf of the flyer, with functioning links.
These webinars and other SECAS events are available on the SECAS event calendar.
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Photo from the previous March 2023 Steering Committee meeting in Christiansted, St. Croix, USVI. Photo by Amanda Sesser. Updates from the August SECAS Steering Committee meeting
The Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Executive Steering Committee met on August 28th to discuss the draft SECAS charter, strategic communications, the upcoming SECAS Symposium at the 77th annual Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) Conference, engagement with State Fish and Wildlife Agency Directors, and Southeast Conservation Blueprint and Goal Report updates, among other topics. The SECAS Executive Steering Committee, which is a formal joint-party committee of SEAFWA, is a governing board of the partnership tasked with setting high-level priorities and direction. It includes Directors of five State Fish and Wildlife Agencies and the Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Southeast.
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Rivercane near Tahlequah, OK managed by Roger Cain of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. Indigenous people have had a close relationship with rivercane for countless millennia and have long managed rivercane as part of shaping their homelands. Photo by Jennifer Byram. Integrating rivercane as Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge into the Southeast Conservation Blueprint
Have you heard about the great work being done in rivercane conservation partnerships across the Southeast United States? This summer, SECAS joined in this work by welcoming a group of three fellows to develop a new indicator for this culturally and ecologically significant species: Levi West, Alyssa Quan, and Jennifer Byram with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Directorate Fellowship Program and the Public Lands Corps.
Rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea) is a bamboo plant native to the Southeastern United States that has played a major role in sustaining cultural practices and ecological systems for many Indigenous communities since time immemorial. Though canebrakes were once prolific throughout the Southeast, today this species and the ecosystems it created have been reduced to approximately 2% of their pre-colonization land area.
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