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.
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2005 Tri-Society MeetingWatersheds: Preservation, Restoration, & Management of Our LandscapeFebruary 3-4, 2005 Holiday Inn Syracuse/Liverpool, New York
Registration Fee $100.00 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 intermingle1:00 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 Break3:00 pm The Watershed Forestry Initiative, Albert Todd, US Forest Service
3:30 pm Panel Discussion4:00 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
