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2005 Tri-Society Meeting

Watersheds: Preservation, Restoration, & Management of Our Landscape Water. It is vitally important as a natural resource. We tend to take it for granted – every time we turn on the faucet, we expect it to be there.
As our three organizations come together, we plan to explore the contributions our professions are making towards the preservation, restoration, and management of the components that make up watershed systems. Please join us for the 2005 Tri-Society Meeting.

2005 Tri-Society Meeting

Watersheds: Preservation, Restoration, & Management of Our Landscape

February 3-4, 2005

Holiday Inn Syracuse/Liverpool, New York

Registration Fee $100.00

Registration Form

Approved for 11.5 Category 1 CFE credits

Agenda:

Wednesday, February 2nd

5:00 - 8:00 pm Executive Committee Meetings in Board Room 1, 3 and 4 (located on the first floor - use the elevator near the front desk)

8:00 - 9:00 pm Early bird reception in the South Cotillion Ballroom

Thursday, February 3rd

8 am -12:00 pm Meeting Registration in Convention Center Foyer

8 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast in Convention Center Foyer

General Session in the Convention Center

8:45 am      Welcome and Opening Comments

9:00 am      Conservation on a Landscape Scale: Changing Approaches and Roles for  Natural Resource Professionals, Gerald Barnhart & Bruce Williamson, NYSDEC

10:00 am      Experimental Manipulation of Entire Watersheds through BMP's: Nutirent Fluxes, Fate and Transport and Biotic Responses, Joseph Makarewicz, SUNY-Brockport

11:00 am      Wood Chips: A Potential Best Management Practice to Minimize the Adverse Water Quality Effects of Forest Harvesting, Doug Burns, US Geological Survey

11:30 am      Restoration of Great Lakes Aquatic Resources-Lake Trout and Lake Sturgeon, Charles Krueger, Great Lakes Fishery Commission
12:00 pm      Lunch provided in Convention Center - Students and professionals to intermingle
1:00 pm      The New York City Watershed Progam, Kevin Brazill, Watershed Agricultural Council

1:30 pm      Adaptively Managing Aquatic Resources in French Creek, Darran Crabree, The Nature Conservancy

2:00 pm      The Neversink Dam Removal Project, Speaker, TBA
2:30 pm      Break
3:00 pm      The Watershed Forestry Initiative, Albert Todd, US Forest Service
3:30 pm      Panel Discussion
4:00 pm       Adjourn General Session

4:00 pm       Poster Set up in Grand Ballroom Center/West

4:30 pm      Meetings and Presentations

SAF Graduate Student Presentations in Grand Ballroom East,

AFS Business Meeting in Convention Center AB,

TWS Business Meeting in Boardroom 2, first floor

6:00 pm      Reception & Poster Session in Grand Ballroom

7:00 pm      Banquet with Key Note Speaker: Dr. Peter Black, Professor Emeritus, SUNY-ESF: Lessons of the Past and Present to Sustain the Future in Convention Center

Friday February 4th

8am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Concurrent Sessions in Convention Center

The American Fisheries Society

8:00 am   AFS Presentations of submitted research papers, Speakers TBA

The Wildlife Society

8:00 am TWS Presentations of submitted research papers, Speakers TBA

The Society of American Foresters

8:00 am SAF Business Meeting

9:15 am Forestland Ownership Changes and Forest Fragmentation/Parcelization

Charles Levesque, North East State Foresters Association and Innovative Natural Resource Solutions LLC

Bret Vicary, James W. Sewall Co.

René Germain, SUNY-ESF

Frank Lowenstein, The Nature Conservancy

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Forestland Ownership Changes and Forest Fragmentation/Parcelization

12:30 pm Panel Discussion

1:00 pm   Adjourn

1:15 pm   NY Institute of Consulting Foresters Luncheon Meeting in Cotillion South