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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Mack Frantz

Zoologist

West Virginia Division of Natural Resource...

Don Schrupp

Wildlife Ecologist

Brandy Bachman

GIS Programmer Analyst

West Virginia Division of Natural Resources

Iris Allen

Wildlife Biologist

West Virginia Division of Natural Resources

Sherri Huwer

Senior Terrestrial Data Analyst

Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Lindsey Wise

Biodiversity Data Manager

Institute for Natural Resources, Portland ...

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Robin Carlson posted a new Topic

Monday, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:22 PM

Web Designers: Apply Your Skills to an OFWIM Website Redesign!

: "Web Designers: Apply Your Skills to an OFWIM Website Redesign!
Do you (or does someone else in your agency) have web design skills? It is time for OFWIM to update its public website, and you can be a part! If you are interested in helping to create a new look and feel for the site, please contact our Web Manager, Dyanne Cortez, at Dyanne.Corte..."

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Don Katnik posted a reply on Re: Government Fish & Wildlife Agency IT Coordi...

Monday, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM

Said: : "Jay, From www.ofwim.org, click the "publications" link in the left navigation page. Scroll to the bottom of the publications page. The "State Fish and Wildlife Agencies Information Management and Geospatial Systems..." document is what we...

Jay Roberson posted a reply on Re: Government Fish & Wildlife Agency IT Coordi...

Monday, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM

Said: : "Bruce and Don, Thanks for the response and information. I looked on OFWIM, AFWA websites and did google search for "Final Report National Fish Wildlfie Data Summit" but did not find what I thought was the 'white paper delivered to agenc...

Don Katnik posted a reply on Re: Government Fish & Wildlife Agency IT Coordi...

Monday, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:54 AM

Said: : "Maine did an "IT consolidation" a few years ago. Both people and hardware were moved to a new, centralized agency. The impetus was both improved security (agency-managed servers were creating firewall breaches) and--supposedly--cost savin...

Bruce Schmidt posted a reply on Re: Government Fish & Wildlife Agency IT Coordi...

Saturday, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:07 PM

Said: : "Jay: The topic of IT governance has been discussed before, but OFWIM has not, to my knowledge, weighed in on it formally. It was discussed at the Data Summit at the Rapid City OFWIM meeting, but the conclusions were, in my opinion, water...