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Gathering Waters Conservancy invites you to attend
the Annual Retreat for Land Trusts on June 5-7
in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
This year the retreat welcomes staff and board
members of Wisconsin land trusts to network, touch base, and help
us strategize our ongoing efforts to serve you. This year’s
topics include innovative outreach ideas, a conversation about
conservation easement management, a board orientation session and
a closed-door conversation with DNR administrators about what new
access and hunting rules mean for Stewardship fund applicants.
Retreat Agenda
Thursday, June 5 - (optional)
Field trip to Mississippi Valley
Conservancy property & pizza dinner
Friday,
June 6
Innovative Outreach
Moving beyond your newsletter, hear how some WI land trusts have
jazzed up their outreach efforts – video podcasts, Birkebeiner
registration for select members, a lecture series – and share
ideas about what kinds of marketing has worked well for land trusts
around the state.
Building Community & Deepening
Community Connections through Questing Workshop
Valley Quest is an award-winning program that uses treasure hunts
to discover and celebrate special places and their stories. To
make a Quest, a group adopts a site and collaboratively learns
about it through field work, research and oral history. Learning
is shared by developing and publishing the Quest, which initiates
future visitors to hidden stories and special places. This session
introduces the Questing process, and takes participants through
the process of developing a Quest by visiting a Mississippi Valley
Conservancy property. See how this example of the Quest concept
represents a compelling approach for land trusts to engage their
community.
Steven Glazer directs the award-winning Valley
Quest program. Co-author of Questing: a Guide
to Creating Community Treasure Hunts, he has helped more
than 150 school, community and conservation groups study and
share their natural and cultural treasures.
This workshop is open to other non-profit
conservation organizations as well. Please feel free to invite
anyone to attend. Learn
more »
Dinner & Dessert Potluck
And, of course…leave room for dessert!
Our dessert potluck gets more impressive each year. Bring treats
to pass as we celebrate land trust successes (we ask each of you
to come prepared to boast) and bestow our annual crop of Wisconsin
Land Trust Awards.
Saturday,
June 7
Board Orientation
A conversation designed for board members, especially those new
to the land trust community. How do the unique functions
of land trusts make board service different from that of other
non-profits? This is an opportunity to meet other Wisconsin
land trust board members, both seasoned and brand new, and to learn
what resources are available through Gathering Waters Conservancy.
Challenges in Conservation Easement Management
A chance to share notes with land protection
personnel around the state about challenging (and great) landowner
relations and how your land trusts have fielded unanticipated issues
in conservation management. Bring questions and lessons learned
to your peers.
Public Policy Update
A conversation with DNR administrators about how public
access and particularly hunting access requirements are affecting
Stewardship applications and what that means for land trusts. GWC’s
policy team will share updates about the Stewardship rule-making
progress, as well. This will also be an opportunity to ask general
questions about hunting and trapping, including details about various
hunting seasons, hunting regulations, number of hunters of individual
species, etc.
Registration & Fees
To encourage
participation by all of Wisconsin’s land trusts– no
matter how large or small – Gathering Waters is offering
the 2008 Land Trust Retreat at no cost to the participants. However,
if you would like to contribute to the workshop costs, please include
a check made out to Gathering Waters Conservancy with your registration
form.
Registration Deadline: May 16, 2008
To register, complete the registration
form and return to:
email: liz [at] gatheringwaters.org
fax: 608-663-5971
or mail: 211
S. Paterson, Suite 270 Madison, WI 53703
Logistics
Lodging and all meals will be provided by Gathering
Waters Conservancy. Just get yourself to La Crosse!
Retreat partipants and meetings will be held
at the Radisson Hotel in downtown La Crosse. Please indicate on
your registration form if you would like to room with someone in
particular, as Gathering Waters will be assigning pariticipants
to the rooms we have reserved.
Directions and other weekend details will be
sent to participants in their confirmation packets.
Sponsors
The 2008 Land Trust Staff Retreat has been made
possible through the generous support from:
Corporate Sponsors
Benefactors
Contributors
Johns, Flaherty & Collins, S.C.
Individual Sponsors
Co-Host
Philip Gelatt
Sponsors
Barb & Don Frank
Shirley Griffin
Questions? Contact Liz Walsh at 608-251-9131 x15 or liz [at] gatheringwaters.org.
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