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The A2A Annual General Meeting and Partner Gathering is scheduled for Saturday, March 24 at the Mallorytown Community Centre from 10 - 3. Mark your Calendar and join A2A as we celebrate a great 2017 and look ahead to 2018.
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On October 15, John Davis and John Allport met on Wellesley Island after completing the end to end Hike. The hike was a great experience and many lessons were learned along the way. We were taken by the beautiful and diverse landscape the trail travels through, and the enthusiasm we encountered in our travels from the people and businesses we talked to. Please visit our facebook page - www.facebook.com/A2ACollab/ for a daily record and pictures of the hike, and stay tuned for the next steps.   Adirondack Daily Enterprise's Justin Levine interviewed A2A Trail Committee Chair, Richard Grover, last week about the A2A Trail project. Planning for the trail is well underway and starting to create a buzz! To read the article, click here.
 A2A's 2016 Partner Meeting has been rescheduled for Saturday April 16. Partners, please contact us if you haven't received your revised invitation!
The Partner Meeting on April 16 is a chance for A2A partner organization representatives to learn from each other, guide strategic initiatives, and celebrate achievements! Come attend workshops on road ecology, mapping, and Conservation Action Planning, and share how your organization has been contributing to the A2A Vision and Mission. Lunch will be provided (suggested donation of $7), with vegetarian and gluten-free options (if requested during registration). The meeting starts at 9:30 am and ends at 3:45 pm. Location: Minna Anthony Common Nature Center, Wellesley Island State Park Complex, 44927 Cross Island Road, Fineview, NY 13640 Please email Bryarly McEachern, Interim Program Director, at info@a2acollaborative.org for more information and to register for this event by April 1. Advance registrations are required to ensure we have enough space, food, and can accommodate dietary restrictions.  A2A Members are invited to attend A2A's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 13 at Mallorytown Community Centre, 76 County Road 5, Mallorytown, Front of Yonge Township, ON.
We will kick the meeting off with a hot breakfast at 9:30 am: Pancakes, Eggs, Sausages, Fruit, Juice and Piping Hot Coffee! Then we will have two presentations about A2A’s Road Ecology and A2A Trail projects. The business meeting will follow at 11:20 am. Come to learn, celebrate and have your say! Please email Bryarly McEachern, Interim Program Director, at info@a2acollaborative.org for more information and to register for either or both of these events by March 7. Advance registrations are required to ensure we have enough space, food, and can accommodate dietary restrictions. A2A Collaborative is seeking a dynamic, motivated professional to manage the organization and to further build its financial and organizational capacity. Application deadline is February 19, 2016. Please see Hiring page for job posting and how to apply.
 As a not-for-profit, A2A is people powered. We have two dozen volunteers who support the organization's activities and we are ever grateful for their invaluable energy and contributions.
We are seeking two new volunteers to help with ongoing administration and twice-a-year newsletter layout:
If either position sounds like a good fit for you, please email a statement of interest to Program Director, Lilith Wyatt with the subject line "Volunteering".  Dear A2A members, partners, and friends,
Just in time to beat the Winter Solstice, CLICK HERE to see the Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative's Fall 2015 newsletter. Read on for stories such as:
Best wishes this holiday season from all of us at A2A!  Dear A2A members and partners,
We are thrilled to introduce to you A2A's new look! Our collaborators at 1dea.ca have this to say: "A2A's new logo represents respect, harmony, and connectivity across the A2A landscape". Our new image reflects our organization's evolution over the past few years, which has only been possible with your support. We have grown from an effective local group working at the pinchpoint of the region, to a truly regional collaborative supporting 45+ partner organizations, with a board that represents First Nations, U.S., and Canada, and a great team of staff and volunteers. This is what we do: 1. Support 45+ partner organizations with:
3. Facilitate Conservation Action Plans (CAPs) As Roxanne Razavi, Ph.D. says in her introduction to the research at hand: "What is the best way to spend resources to protect ecosystems? How do coordinated efforts over space and time compare to local planning? Are large lump allocations of funds more effective than small allocations of funds over long periods of time? These are questions that we face as managers and custodians of the Finger Lakes. Earlier this year, an important study by aquatic scientists posed these questions and revealed that the most efficient way to spend conservation dollars – when ecological connectivity is at issue – is at large spatial scales. Read more about their case study on migratory fishes in the Great Lakes below, and check out Fishwerks, the exciting tool they’ve developed to improve fish habitat." The study's abstract is as follows: Societies around the world make massive investments in ecosystem restoration projects to mitigate habitat loss, conserve biodiversity, and boost ecosystem services. We use a return-on-investment framework to assess the value of coordinating restoration efforts in space and time to maximize ecological connectivity between the Laurentian Great Lakes and their tributaries, which are fragmented by hundreds of thousands of dams and road crossings. We show that coordinating restoration efforts across the entire region is nine times more cost-effective than local-scale planning. Similarly, a single lump sum investment is up to 10 times more cost-effective than a series of annual allocations. These dramatic economic and ecological efficiencies provide ample incentive for coordinating conservation efforts across broad spatial and temporal scales. [emphasis added] Read more on the study here: Bigger bang for your buck: Restoring fish habitat by removing barriers  |
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