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. e . Adaptive Management Program Report of the Public Outreach Ad Hoc Group to the Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group February 3, 2004 During the January 7 & 8, 2004, Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group (TWG) meeting, the TWG formed an ad hoc group on public outreach, and tasked the group to develop options for planning and implementing a public outreach strategy for the Adaptive Management Program (AMP), Amy Heuslein and Pam Hyde were designated as co-chairs of the ad hoc group, and Mike Yeatts, Mark Steffen, Andre Potochnik, John Shields, and Marklyn Chee volunteered to serve on the ad hoc group. The Public Outreach Ad Hoc Group (POAHG) met via conference call on January 21,2004, and discussed the charge from the TWG and how to proceed, Our goal was to determine the target audience(s) for public outreach, the message we needed to convey, possible tools to use, and who should develop the outreach plan and subsequently who should implement it, We found that we initially needed to clarify two things: (l)whose public outreach was this to be, and (2) what fell within the definition of public outreach, The question arose as to whether this public outreach effort was to provide each stakeholder with the resources to meet their public outreach needs to the constituencies they wanted to cultivate, or rather whether it was to be outreach on behalf of the program itself, limited to messages and strategies that were agreed to by a consensus of the stakeholders and seen as balanced and fair. It was the thought of the POAHG that the latter, rather than the former, was what we were going for, Then the question arose as to whether certain types of education would fall within this public outreach effort, Athough outreach is a form of education, would providing data to tribes for curriculum development or educational programs for example, be considered public outreach? Would creating products for the AMP for targeted decision makers in Washington DC - withintheDepartment or on Capitol Hill - be considered public outreach? There wasn't clear consensus on answers to these questions, although we did agree that there were lines to be drawn, especially in distinguishing for development of educational curricula from the other "educational" functions of outreach, If the TWG and the Adaptive Management Work Group agree, then it may be necessary to address education, especially in the budget process, as a separate issue that still needs to be addressed, Ultimately, as we plan a public outreach strategy, we will need to define the goals and objectives for that strategy, Do we intend to further our conservation efforts? Educate others? Are there other goals? 02341