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Registration opens |
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Continental breakfast |
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Welcome: Gregg Mitman, Interim Director, Nelson Institute for |
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Environmental Studies, UW-Madison |
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A Clean Future for the Yahara Lakes: Jim Lorman, |
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Coordinating Committee Chair, Yahara Lakes Legacy Partnership |
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State of the Yahara Lakes: Richard Lathrop, Wisconsin |
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Department of Natural Resources |
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Value of the Yahara Lakes: Stephen Carpenter, UW-Madison |
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Center for Limnology |
| 9:30AM |
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Q&A and discussion |
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Break |
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Concurrent sessions on identifying solutions |
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Community Action and Partnerships
- Moderator: Jim Lorman, Coordinating Committee Chair, Yahara Lakes Legacy Partnership
- Betsey Day, Friends of Pheasant Branch
- Suzanne Wade, Rock River Basin Educator for Natural Resources, UW-Extension
- Jim Welsh, Executive Director, Natural Heritage Land Trust
Green Land, Clean Water: Opportunities in Manure Management
- Moderator: Peter Nowak, Professor of Environmental Studies, UW-Madison
- Randy Wirtz, Professional Engineer, Strand Associates, Inc.
- Larry Krom, Bioenergy Project Manager, Focus on Energy
- Topf Wells, Chief of Staff to the Dane County Executive
Mud and Crud: Reducing Urban and Rural Sediment and Nutrient Run-off
- Moderator: Kenneth Potter, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison
- Pat Sutter, Dane County Conservationist
- Kurt Caulkins, Columbia County Conservationist
- Jim Bachhuber, Earth Tech
Beach CSI: Investigating and Controlling Potential Pollution Sources
- Moderator: Susan Jones, Watershed Management Coordinator, Dane County Office of Lakes and Watersheds
- Kirsti Sorsa, Program Manager, Laboratory and Field Services, Dane County Department of Public Health
- Jon Standridge, Vice President, Madison Board of Water Commissioners; Chair, Madison Commission on the Environment
- Rob Waschbusch, Hydrologist, Wisconsin Water Science Center, USGS
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Lunch Keynote: The Urban-Rural Partnership in the New York |
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City Watershed: Tom O'Brien, Executive Director, Watershed Agricultural Council, Walton, New York. Introduction by Brett Hulsey, Chair, Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission.
Poetry Reading: The Turning: by Ellen Kort, Wisconsin's First Poet Laureate.
Introduction by Jon Becker, Founder, Earth/Art® Resources; President, Friends of Cherokee Marsh |
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Concurrent sessions on implementing solutions |
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Community Action and Partnerships
- Moderator: Jim Lorman, Coordinating Committee Chair, Yahara Lakes Legacy Partnership
- Tom O'Brien, Executive Director, Watershed Agricultural Council, Walton, New York
- Patrick Marchese, Southeast Wisconsin Watershed Trust
- Carol Fialkowski, Co-Founder, Chicago Wilderness
Green Land, Clean Water: Opportunities in Manure Management
- Moderator: Peter Nowak, Professor of Environmental Studies, UW–Madison
- Timothy Baye, Professor of Business Development, UW Extension
- Jeff Endres, Berryridge Farms
- Duane Hanusa, Alliant Energy
Mud and Crud: Reducing Urban and Rural Sediment and Nutrient Run-off
- Moderators: Kenneth Potter, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW–Madison and Ken Genskow, Assistant Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, UW–Madison
- George Meyer, Executive Director, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation
- Ken Johnson, South Central Regional Water Leader, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Pat Murphy, State Resource Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Kevin Kirsch, Water Resources Engineer, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Peter McAvoy, Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, Milwaukee
Beach CSI: Investigating and Controlling Potential Pollution Sources
- Moderator: Susan Jones, Watershed Management Coordinator, Dane County Office of Lakes and Watersheds
- Julie Kinzelman, Research Scientist/Lab Director, City of Racine Department of Health
- Gregory Kleinheinz, Director, Industrial & Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
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Break |
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Compelling Ideas and Innovative Solutions from the Concurrent |
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Leadership Panel: Solutions for Tomorrow, Starting Today |
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- Moderator: Neil Heinen, Editorial Director, WISC TV and Madison Magazine
- Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz
- Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk
- Lloyd Eagan, Director, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources South Central Region
- Pat O'Brien, President, Dane County Farm Bureau
- Mike Gerner, Partner, Grant Thornton; Board Member, Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce
- Jerry Derr, President, Dane County Towns Association
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Adjourn |
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