Welcome to the Groupsite for OFWIM!


The Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers (OFWIM) has been bringing together state, federal, and non-profit fish and wildlife information managers since 1993 to coordinate and share information technologies, management strategies, and standards on a national level.


OFWIM Groupsite is our meeting place that provides members of the organization with a shared calendar, discussion forums, member profiles, photo gallery, file storage and more.


To become an OFWIM member, go to our public website and join online or mail in membership form.

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OFWIM 2025 Annual Conference - Hold the Date

Hold the Date!October 5-9, 2025Please join us at the Virden Retreat Center in Lewes, Delaware for the 2025 OFWIM Annual Conference.Registration information and call for abstracts will be coming soon.

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Shefali Azad
Ben Wasserstein
Research & Species Conservation Database A...
Colorado Parks & Wildlife
Susan Watson
Wildlife Information Biologist
Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
Andrew Treble
Aquatic Research Data Analyst
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Brandy Bachman
GIS Programmer Analyst
West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
Zach Collins

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Said: : "Good to know. I had no idea cost could get out of control so quickly. It sounds like having a budget person and a database person would be very helpful so we don't end up with a run away train on expenses or files. Thanks for the insig...
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Said: : "Interesting, I hadn't considered the financial boondoggle. Who manages billing? Who pays for which databases out of what funding source? Who monitors cost and recommends transitioning to in-house servers? At what threshold does it mak...
Said: : "We've not jumped into the cloud yet but I've always been concerned about the financial side of things. I know overall the rates are supposedly cheaper than self-hosting, but you are charged by what you use and we all know how projects sw...
Said: : "Thanks Keith! I think the issue that's tripping me up is the use of a cloud based service. In the past we've pointed our Access front ends to an in-house instance of SQL server and it's worked great. So it's the intangibility of the 'cl...

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