This year's CAMNet meeting emphasizes emergent, place-based approaches to natural resources management. To this end, New England with its history of local governance, private lands and the open commons of fisheries offers a very different context within which to view the practice and the potential of collaboration adaptive management. This year's meeting is focused on adaptive governance – the decision making context required for effective response to change, and will feature panels on innovative approaches to management of three resource types:  fisheries, forestry, and climate change action. 

 The Rendezvous will begin at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 16^th  with registration, opening remarks from CAMNet and Rendezvous organizers, a welcome from a local official, a keynote address, updates from programs applying collaborative adaptive management across North America, and a group dinner.   

 On Sunday, April 17^th, participants will have an opportunity to engage in dialogue with staff from the City of Keene, NH and Cool Monadnock, two of the most progressive efforts at climate action planning nationally; with fishermen and other representatives from the Maine lobster fishery about lessons learned from the recovery of that resource; and with panelists involved with Community Forests in New England and the regional Quabbin to Cardigan Partnership about the experience of working in complex, multi-stakeholder situations to develop linked collaborative, place-based approaches to resource conservation.

 The Rendezvous will conclude at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 17^th with a summary and review of action items emerging from the discussions.