October 8, 2008 •
Mequon Nature Preserve • Mequon, WI
Register | Overview | Hosts | Agenda | Speakers | Field
trip | Sponsors
The Ozaukee
Washington Land Trust and Gathering Waters
Conservancy invite you to join us on October 8th for the Mequon
Great Lake Gathering.
The Gathering will be from 5:30 to 8:30pm at the Mequon Nature Preserve.
Overview
The Mequon Gathering is an open and collaborative forum intended to
spark conversations about local and regional land and water conservation.
We hope to encourage new, creative partnerships to protect the places
important to the great quality of life in the Lake Michigan Basin.
Everyone who shares a common love for the natural
treasures in the Lake Michigan basin is encouraged to attend: business
owners, elected officials, landowners, economic development organizations,
conservation groups, chambers of commerce, community organization members,
and the general public. The Great Lake Gathering will introduce participants
to new partners who are working to protect that treasure in our shared
back yard.
Hosts
The Ozaukee Washington Land Trust
and Gathering Waters Conservancy with support from the Joyce Foundation,
are hosting one in a series of open forums this fall in four Wisconsin
communities: Green Bay, Sheboygan, Mequon and Milwaukee.
Land trusts play an important role in preserving and
improving the ecological, economic and human health in the area. One
goal of the Gatherings is to encourage community leaders to look to their
land trusts as a resource.
Agenda
8-9am - Networking & Continental Breakfast
9-12pm - Program
Welcome - Mayor Christine Nuernberg
Keynote - TBA
Panel Session - Local Conservation Success
Q & A
12:30 - 1:30pm - Optional Field
trip (limit
50 people)
Ozaukee Washington Land Trust Property
Speakers
Mayor Christine Nuernberg, City of
Mequon
Shawn Graff, Excutive Director, Ozaukee
Washington Land Trust
Sponsors
The
Joyce Foundation
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Questions? Call Liz
Walsh at (608) 251-9131 x12 or email liz [at] gatheringwaters.org.
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