Scott Bischke has over a dozen years of experience facilitating meetings
in the scientific, engineering, and public policy realms. We specialize in straight
ahead facilitation scoped at helping you keep your meeting focused and on track,
and most importantly helping you achieve your meeting goals.
Regardless of the meeting topic, we strongly encourage clients to bring MountainWorks
on board early to help set
meeting logistics, timing, and expectations. We excel at understanding meeting flow
and making needed modifications in real time, as your meeting progresses. And we
will happily help you post-meeting as well, in such areas as meeting documentation,
report writing, post-mortem analsysis, web site management and data presentation,
and future direction planning.
Past MountainWorks facilitation efforts have varied from an international corporate
environmental conference to
meetings slated at understanding wildlife disease; from creating a new field station to
setting technical goals for natural resource monitoring; from management of bison in and
around Yellowstone National Park to control of invasive lake trout in Yellowstone
and Flathead lakes; and from developing the long term science plan for the Greater Yellowstone
Area to understanding large scale, Canadian/USA ecosystem dynamics.
Our clients have included the National Park System, Hewlett-Packard Corporation,
U.S. Geological Survey, Yellowstone
Ecological Research Center, the Greater Yellowstone Network, Big Sky Institute,
Montana State University, the University of California Davis, Gallatin National
Forest, Animal and Plant Health Services, Montana Department of Livestock, Montana
Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, and many more.
Project highlight: Interagency Bison Management Plan
Since 2008 MountainWorks has led ~40 ( and counting!) meetings of the Interagency Bison Management
Plan (IBMP) Partnership. The IBMP is a cooperative, multi-agency effort that guides the management
of bison and brucellosis in and around Yellowstone National Park.
The partnership is made up of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services,
Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes,
Intertribal Buffalo Council, Montana Department of Livestock, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, National Park Service,
Nez Perce Tribe, and the US Foreset Service. MountainWorks efforts on behalf of the IBMP
include meeting planning, meeting faciliation, web site management, report writing, and more. For
more information on this fascinating group, see the
IBMP website.