QUESTIONS OF SCALE

(Towards Closer Integration of Efforts within the Greater Blufflands Region)

 

Greater Blufflands Forum

Second Planning Meeting

April 18-19, 2001

Holland, Wisconsin Town Hall

 

APRIL 18:  DAY 1

 

11:00 -11:10              Recap from First Planning Meeting – Norman Senjem, 

                                    Basin Alliance for the Lower Mississippi in Minnesota

 

11:10 – 11:25            Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Update

 

11:20 – 12:10            From Frog Ponds to Forests and Flyways: Natural Connections Across the Driftless Landscape  

– Melinda Knutson, Wildlife Biologist, USGS, Onalska 

 

12:10 – 1:30            Lunch & Setting Up Project Posters

 

1:30 – 3:30             Information Sharing: Watershed Organizations in the Blufflands

                        -- Moderator: Tex Hawkins, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Winona

§         Small watershed – Wisconsin (TBA)

§         Major watershed – Upper Iowa River Watershed Alliance – Lora Friest, project coordinator

§         Basin – The Basin Alliance for the Lower Mississippi in Minnesota (BALMM ) – Norman Senjem, Coordinator

§         Upper Mississippi River Basin Association  – Holly Stoerker, Executive Director 

 

3:30 – 3:45             BREAK & Informal Poster conversations

 

3:45 – 4:30            “Scaling Up” Collectively by Delineating Projects on New Greater

Blufflands Map  – Group Exercise

 

4: 30 – 5:00            Informal Poster Session conversations

 

 

 

 

DINNER -- on the river?

 

 

 

(over)

APRIL 19: DAY 2

 

08:00 – 08:30            Choose a Name & Delineate the Project Area

 

08:30 – 10:00            Setting A Clear Direction: Mission, Vision & Values

§         Divide into three sub-groups to formulate draft language

 

10:00 – 10:15            BREAK

 

10:15 – 10:45            Mission, Vision and Values – Group Discussion

 

10:45 – 11:15            Choosing Dates and Topics for Future Forums

 

11:15 – 11:45            Organizational Support: Role of RC&Ds

 

11:45 – 12:00            On Our Way Rejoicing – A Motivational Summary of Project --TBA