Note to my readers:
AS I watched the live-stream and the captured text, I noticed various problems with the captioning. It is evident to me that voice recognition software was used to capture the text from the speakers instead of a professional transcriber like a court reporter.
There are many words here that are not spelled correctly. When trying to read this captured text, and the word is unintelligible, trying saying the word out loud phonetically. I hesitated to change any text or make corrections as I did not want to be accused of modifying it to suit any particular person’s benefit or detriment. Please consider this not as an essay, but more as notes and a guide for further conversations.
– When you see this: >> it means there’s a change of speaker. Sometimes the live-stream captioning added the names of the speakers and sometimes it did not.
– The multiple dash – – means that live captioning dropped some text.
– Sometimes the live captioning repeated the beginning of a sentence and sometimes whole sentences were dropped.
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we’ll go to Joan Guilfoyle to get an update, a BLM update.
>> JOAN GUILFOYLE: All right. Thank you, Boyd. So I’d like to — normally we do this on the first opening day as you all know. I realized this morning that because we were adjusting our agenda because of the topics, we never got a chance or I never got a chance to introduce and make known some of the BLM Forest Service folks in the audience and helping with this, so I wanted to do that now. Alan shepherd acting division chief most of you have met him. There’s other folks. Dean Bolstad is the senior — what’s your title? I don’t remember.
>> DR. BOYD SPRATLING: Joan, that’s an indication you Mac your titles too cumbersome.
>> JOAN GUILFOYLE: It’s simple which is why I forgot it. Joan Ruth is here assistant to the director. Anting director on Fish and Wildlife Service. I see Zach Reichold senior advisor here DC full time. Sally Spencer in the back who has been doing meeting organization and I want to thank her and I know the board always wants to thank Sally for all the background work she does for us.
We also have folks from the states who helped look at this NAS report. We have Jerry Bibey from the Montana state lead. Rob sharp, Oregon, WashingtonState lead. Roger back there who is Arizona. And I think did I hit all the BLM folks? There are probably some of them online and the Forest Service, Ralph and — Debbie Collins on the right. She’s our public information person.
Dr. Al Kane is back there out of my view who is our APHIS person who helps us quite a lot. Rebecca Moore is the economist who works in Fort Collins who is new hire relatively speaking with the BLM and helping do some economic analysis on our program which is really helpful and I think that may have gotten all the people on our team.
BLM. Forest Service. Barry and Ralph, is it all right if I introduce you, Barry Emeler is long time Washington office contact for the Wild Horse and Burro for the Forest Service and Ralph Geffen works on the range program. His boss Charlie Richmond is who you heard from yesterday and Holly hooks just showed up who is budget chief for the program. I wanted to make sure you knew who everyone was and if you have any questions anybody, feel free. Good people out there.
So I’m going to do the update I normally would have done the first day. So first of all, wanted to mention that three of the board members terms are expiring on March 28th, 2014. And those three folks whose terms are expiring are Robert Bray, Julie Gleason, and Joe Dear. The opportunity for people to renominate themselves or come in anew has already been published in the Federal Register. Continue reading
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