Welcome to Metonga Lake!
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What is Smart Prevention?
• Prevention is an important strategy
• Smart prevention uses science for directing
management resources more effectively
Acknowledgements
Role Playing Games
• Commonly used for teambuilding efforts,
communication improvements, employee
motivation
• Also often used as an interactive teaching
and learning technique
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Workshop Overview
• Goals:
– Gain better understanding of how
management decisions about AIS are made
– Learn about problem solving
– Increase understanding of differences
between stakeholder groups
Workshop Schedule
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Introduction
Assign characters/divide groups
Scenario and group planning
Break
Group reports
Future directions
Questions, discussion and wrap up
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Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
Scenario Event
Scenario Goal
• Develop a strategy for addressing the
growing concern for zebra mussels.
• The local community has $20,000 to
spend on zebra mussel prevention.
• Allocate these funds across the Metonga
Lake area.
Prevention Options
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Signs at boat landings
Construction of a Clean Boat station
Volunteer watercraft inspectors
Paid watercraft inspectors
Lake restrictions
“Bio Bullets”
Each of these have assigned costs.
Scenario Characters
You will receive basic information about your
character.
You may choose when to share information
about your character.
Please have fun, but do your best to make
decisions based on your character info.
Thoughts before we begin…
• There is no correct answer.
• This involves some realistic choices, but it is not
real.
• We can help answer questions but we are not
here to guide the discussion.
• Groups will share their decision at the end.
Scenario: Getting started
• Introduce your characters
• Select a group spokesperson
• Discuss your options
• Form a plan
Scenario: Wrapping up
• Fill out one green form per group.
• Decide which options your group will use,
and where each option will be used.
Please form groups by
LETTER
Break
Group Reports
AIS Smart prevention: a framework
Questions?
Thank you for coming!
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