Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers

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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GIS Programmer Analyst

West Virginia Division of Natural Resources

Lindsey Wise

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Institute for Natural Resources, Portland ...

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Research & Species Conservation Database A...

Colorado Parks & Wildlife

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Michael Barbour posted a new Topic

Monday, May 12, 2014 at 9:09 AM

Webinar and paper: Plant Conservation Under the Endangered Species Act: Expenditures and Strategy

: "The next Plant Conservation Alliance meeting will focus on plant conservation under the ESA. The speaker, Vivian Negron-Ortiz, is a botanist with the USFWS who just published a paper on the topic. The meeting is May 14 at 2pm EDT (webinar details below).

Reference for the paper isNegron-Ortiz, Vivian. 2014. Pattern of expenditures for plant c..."

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Michael Barbour posted a new Topic

Monday, May 12, 2014 at 8:45 AM

Webinar: Using Google Maps Inside Esri’s ArcGIS

: "Using Google Maps Inside Esri's ArcGIS
Overview
Arc2Earth was designed for ArcGIS Desktop users in any industry who are seeking a bridge between ArcGIS, Google Maps and Google Maps Engine. Arc2Earth provides a simple and cost-effective way to expand on ArcGIS functionality with unprecedented speed for map updates, easy collaboration and worldwi..."

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Michael Barbour posted a new Topic

Monday, May 12, 2014 at 8:41 AM

DM Webinar: ArcGIS in the Cloud: Stay Connected and Current

: "ArcGIS in the Cloud: Stay Connected and Current

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Migrating from a legacy GIS system to a fully integrated cloud environment is no easy task. Or is it? County employees in Habersham, GA migrated to a Citrix-based "virtual" ArcGIS Desktop. This "virtual" desktop allows county employees to access the most current product enhancements, r..."

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Michael Barbour posted a new Topic

Monday, May 12, 2014 at 8:31 AM

Coursera Free Metadata Course

: "Coursera is offering a free metadata course that starts Monday, 14 July 2014.

Course title: Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information

Details at https://www.coursera.org/course/metadata"

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Justin Ray posted a new Topic

Friday, May 9, 2014 at 10:32 AM

Drone Articles

: "I know recently in the Training and Education Committee we have been discussing the application of drones to our field of work. I thought I would list a few recent pertinent articles which may be of interest to the group.
The National Park Service recently publicized a ban on drones in all national parks:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/05/tech/inno..."

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