Southeast Watershed Forum - Agenda and Presentations

---- to view abstracts or full presentations click the presentation title --- *Thursday* 28 October 2004 Plenary Session 9:00 am Roundtable Welcome Gerald Nicely, Commissioner – Tennessee Department of Transportation Christine Olsenius, Executive Director – Southeast Watershed Forum John McClurkan, Administrator of Water Resources – TN Department of Agriculture
9:30 am Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature Sandra Postel, Global Water Policy Project- Author, Rivers For Life
10:00 am New Directions in Blending Environmental and Transportation in TN Betsy Child, Commissioner, TDEC Gerald Nicely, Commissioner, TDOT
10:45 am A Bird’s Eye View of the Region’s Changing Landscape Dr. Thomas Loveland, EROS Data Center, U.S. Geological Survey
11:30 am ACT/ACF River Basin Compact: What Have We Learned? Roger Burke, Army Corps Delegate to ACT-ACF River Basin Commission
Concurrent Sessions
Growing Greener Communities		Transportation & Natural Context Design Solutions
1:30 pm	Economics of Unplanned Growth : Cost of Community Services Study Cindy Haygood, Rolling Hills RC&D Council The Growing Case of Community Liability Larry Larson, ASFM	1:30 pm	Natural Context Design Solutions & Transportation Policies Harold Peaks, Federal Highway Admin. Sustainable Transportation: Can We Get There From Here? Trip Pollard, Southern Enviro. Law Center
2:45 pm	When a City Runs Dry, The Frederick MD Story Chuck Boyd, Planning Director City of Frederick Trees: A Capital Investment Cheryl Kollin, American Forests	2:45 pm	Kentucky Case Study – Pine Mountain John Mettille, KY Transportation Cabinet Tennessee Case Study – Kingsport State Route 126/Memorial Boulevard Elizabeth Smith, TDOT
Farmland Protection Rural Issues		Saving Habitat & Open Space
1:30 pm	Source Water Protection in Rural America Joe Burns, Kentucky Rural Water Association Farmland Protection Initiatives in TN: Pond Creek Watershed Project Lena Beth Carmichael, University of Tennessee	1:30 pm	Measuring Rural Home Owners’ Willingness to Pay for Land Conservation Easements Seong-Hoon Cho, University of Tennessee Rural Lands Stewardship Program Craig Evans, CH2MHill Engineering, Florida
2:45 pm	Purchase of Development Rights Gerry Cohn, American Farmland Trust Using the Farm Bill for Farmland Protection in GA Cindy Haygood, GA, Rolling Hills RC&D Council	2:45 pm	Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge: From Vision to Reality Wayne H. Schacher, Wildlife Biologist, Natural Resource Services, Inc. Wake County (NC) Open Space Initiative Kenn Gardner, Chair of the Wake County
3:45 – 5:00pm State Breakout Sessions Attendees will be asked to go to their respective State breakout session for facilitated discussions on resource issues.

Friday 29 October 2004

8:30 am	Welcome Feedback from State Breakout Sessions Christine Olsenius, Executive Director – Southeast Watershed Forum
Concurrent Sessions
Growing Greener Communities		Natural Context Design Solutions
9:15 am	Remotely Sensing a Synoptic View of Land Use/Land Cover Change and its Effects on the Hydrologic Regime Dr. Charles Laymon, ESSP, NASA Water & My Community: How Smart Growth Can Reduce the Cost of Water Delivery Paula VanLare, US EPA	9:15 am	Context Sensitive Design and Solutions as a Way of Doing Business Ed Cole, Tennessee Department of Transportation Case Studies in Public Involvement Anne Morris, PBS&J
10:30 am 11:30 am	Storm Water Economics for Local Government: A Case for Non-structural Best Practices Joel Haden & Denis Yankee, TVA Maintaining a Community’s Green Infrastructure Mark DeKay & Tracy Moir-McClean, College of Architecture & Design, U of T Evaluating LID Practices for Storm Water Management on a Industrial Site in MS Joel Haden, Tennessee Valley Authority Doug Baughman, CH2M HILL Engineering Modeling the Effectiveness of “Green BMPs” in Stormwater Quantity and Quality Jennifer Gulick, Davey Resource Group	10:30 am 11:30 am	Case Studies in Sustainable Transportation – Atlanta’s Quality Growth Task Force Kevin Green, V.P. - Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Leaving the Lightest Possible Touch on the Environment Missy Dickens, Project Manager, NCDOT Tennessee Stream Mitigation Program Joey Woodard, Tennessee Stream Mitigation Program Transportation and Natural Context Design Solutions for the Florida Panhandle Charles Pattison, 1000 Friends of Florida
Developers’ Symposium: Green is the Bottom Line		Farmland, Habitat & Hosted by LTA Open Space Protection
9:15 am	Tom’s Creek Development - Blacksburg, VA Joyce Graham, Managing Member Longleaf at Callaway - Callaway Gardens, GA	9:15 am	Protecting the Thoroughbred Country Maner Ferguson, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, KY Permanent and Private Efforts of Land Protection in Watersheds of TN - Working with Land Trusts Eileen Hennessy, Executive Director - Land Trust for TN & Representative– Land Trust Alliance (LTA)
10:30 am 11:30 am	Lenox Village - Nashville, TN David McGowan, President Regent Development Rick Blackburn, Vice President Panel Discussion on Trends & Market Response to Green Developments Moderator: Rick Bernhardt John Sheley, Executive Vice President - Home Builders Association of Middle Tennessee Margo Farnsworth, Executive Director - Cumberland River Compact Previous Speakers from VA, GA, AL, FL, TN	10:30 am 11:30 am	French Broad Conservation Corridor Cheri & Colleen Cruze Working with Private Landowners to Protect Endangered Species Brad Bingham, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Panel on Farmland and Open Space Protection through Land Trusts Opportunities for Partnerships & Leveraging Funding All session participants Moderated by: Eileen Hennessy & Dorene Bolze, Executive Director Harpeth River Watershed Assoc.