Chair Vongraven asked for comments on the meeting agenda. No additional comments were made and the agenda, as distributed ahead of the meeting, was accepted and a schedule for rapporteurs was established. T. Atwood
volunteered to coordinate the reports from the individual rapporteurs (J. Aars, S. Amstrup, A. Derocher, G. Durner, A. Jessen, N. Lunn, M. Obbard, E. Richardson, K. Rode, I. Stirling, G. Thiemann, F. Ugarte, J. Wilder, and G. York) from all the sessions into a single document for the Proceedings. At the special meeting in 2014 (Fort Collins, Colorado) it was agreed that the Proceedings of the PBSG meetings would include minutes, status table, and reports on research and management in a single document. It was also agreed that it would be most useful to continue publication of the Proceedings in the IUCN Occasional Paper series, as has been the practice following past meetings. The
tentative goal for completion of the contents for the Proceedings was set for October. Additional material for possible inclusion in the final Proceedings, such as Resolutions, will be discussed as the issues come up through the
meeting. G. Durner agreed to help witcoordination of the final document for eventual publication as the Proceedings of the meeting.