~ Call for Presentations ~
6th Annual Midwest Land Conservation
Conference
April 26-28, 2007
The
Crowne Plaza
Grand Hall and Conference Center at Historic Union Station, Indianapolis,
IN
The Land Trust Alliance and the 2007 Program Committee invite you to
submit presentation proposals for the 6th Annual Midwest Land
Conservation Conference. The conference will offer half-day
seminars and field trips on Thursday, April 26 and Saturday, April 28,
and concurrent workshops on Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April
28. Over one hundred land trust practitioners, public agency
professionals and allied conservationists from 12 states are expected to
attend the conference.
The Program Committee will review and select presentation proposals for
workshops and panels based on:
1) Relevance of the topic to our
proposed workshop tracts and Land Trust Standards and Practices;
2) Credentials and speaking skills of
the presenter; and,
3) Proposed learning
objectives.
All proposals are due by the close of business on Friday, December
15th, 2006 to midwest@lta.org. You will be contacted
in January on the status of your proposal. Please note that the
Program Committee may request that you rename the session and suggest
outline changes to better meet the needs of the conference. The
Program Committee has identified four workshop tracts they would like to
offer and examples of topics for each tract:
(Note: This is not an exclusive list of suggested
topics. You may have an interesting topic that does not appear
here. Please submit it for consideration.)
Water Resources Issues
o Principles of watershed
management
o Great Lakes policy
o Stream corridor
restoration
o Wetlands Restoration
o Agriculture and water quality
protection
· Land Conservation Issues
o Land trusts and PDR
programs
o Comprehensive land use
planning
o Urban trailways and open
space
o Invasive species
management
· Organizational
Management and Development
o Managing and developing effective boards
o Introduction to land trust ?best
practices?
o Fundraising and membership
o Determining conservation easement costs
· Land Transactions,
Stewardship and Management
o Negotiating and drafting conservation
easements
o Easement monitoring and stewardship
o Public/Private partnership: leveraging
resources
o Wildlife habitat conservation planning
o Recordkeeping
o Baseline documentation
o Introduction to fee simple land
acquisition
· Panel Discussion Topics
o Public health and land
conservation
o Environmental justice:
land conservation for everyone
o Promoting Livable
Cities: smart growth success stories
o Indiana Land Use
Consortium
The 2007 Midwest Land Trust Conference Program
Committee
Heather Bacher, Central Indiana Land Trust (IN)
Karen Bassler, Gathering Waters Conservancy (WI)
Erin Heskett, Land Trust Alliance (Midwest Program)
Angela Hughes, The Nature Conservancy (IN)
Bob Megquier CorLands (IL)
Steve Morris, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IN)
Peter D. Ter Louw, Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy (MI)
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