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Conference Program
Welcoming remarks by Gregg Mitman, Interim
Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison (video compatible with Real Player)
A Clean Future for the Yahara Lakes: Jim Lorman,
Coordinating Committee Chair, Yahara Lakes Legacy Partnership (video compatible with Real Player)
State of the Yahara Lakes:
Richard Lathrop, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (
video and PDF presentation)
Value of the Yahara Lakes:
Stephen Carpenter, UW-Madison Center for Limnology (video compatible with Real Player
and PDF Presentation)
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
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Green Land, Clean Water: Opportunities in Manure Management (video compatible with Real Player)
The link above will show you all of the talks for this concurrent session.
Moderator: Peter Nowak, Professor of Environmental Studies, UW–Madison
- Randy Wirtz, Professional Engineer, Strand Associates, Inc. (PDF)
- Larry Krom, Bioenergy Project Manager, Focus on Energy (PDF)
- Topf Wells, Chief of Staff to the Dane County Executive
- Mud and Crud: Reducing Urban and Rural Sediment and Nutrient Run-off
The link above will show you all of the talks for this concurrent session.
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 (PDF)
- 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 (PDF)
- Rob Waschbusch, Hydrologist, Wisconsin Water Science Center, USGS (PDF)
Lunch reading of The Turning, by Ellen Kort,
Wisconsin's First Poet Laureate (Introduction by Jon Becker, Founder, Earth/Art® Resources; President, Friends of Cherokee Marsh) (video compatible with Real Player)
Lunch Keynote: The Urban-Rural Partnership in the New York City Watershed:
Tom O'Brien, Executive Director, Watershed Agricultural Council,
Walton, New York (video compatible with Real Player) and (PDF Presentation)(Introduction by
Brett Hulsey Chair, Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission.) (PDF)
Concurrent sessions on implementing solutions
- 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
The link above will show you all of the talks for this concurrent session. (video compatible with Real Player)
Moderator: Pete Nowak, Professor of Environmental Studies, UW–Madison
- Timothy Baye, Professor of Business Development, UW Extension (PDF)
- Jeff Endres, Berryridge Farms
- Duane Hanusa, Alliant Energy (PDF)
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Mud and Crud: Reducing Urban and Rural Sediment and Nutrient Run-off
The link above will show you all of the talks for this concurrent session.
Moderator: 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
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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 (PDF)
- Gregory Kleinheinz, Director, Industrial & Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, University
of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (PDF)
Leadership Panel: Solutions for Tomorrow, Starting Today
Moderator: Neil Heinen, Editorial Director, WISC TV and Madison Magazine (video compatible with Real Player)
- 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
