Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers

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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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Anne Elston posted a new Topic

Friday, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:44 AM

Defining Stream Reaches

: "Hello,

We have a point dataset of water diversions and have been asked to create a shapefile generalizing the locations of water diversions. Water diversions include pipes along streams and inland
waterways that pump water from these waterways for agricultural and other purposes. We looked at summarizing the data by quads, county, townshi..."

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Jami Kuzek joined the group.

Tuesday, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:17 PM

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Michael Barbour posted a new Topic

Friday, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:19 AM

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Offers Online Information Sessions On Proposal to List Northern Long-eared Bat as Endangered

: "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Offers Online Information Sessions On Proposal to List Northern Long-eared Bat as Endangered
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold three public information webcasts in August to provide information and answer questions about our proposal to list the northern long-eared bat as endangered under the Endangered ..."

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Eric Woodsworth posted a new Topic

Thursday, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:47 PM

Wanted: Maxent training

: "A colleague asked me to post the following:
Are any of you aware of any Maxent modelling workshops or training courses in Canada or North America (or any other similar “presence only” species distribution modeling techniques workshops)? I have been trying to use Maxent for Western Harvest Mouse CH modelling but would like to get some further t..."

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Eric Woodsworth posted a reply on Re: Data Sharing Agreements

Monday, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:09 PM

Said: : "The Government of Canada has an open data licence that applies to data shared through the Open Data Portal; it's based on the Creative Commons Licence. When sharing sensitive data we (Prairie Northern Region of Canadian Wildlife Service)...