Promoting Collaboration to Restore Wetlands and Floodplains and Mitigate Flood Hazards in the Rock River Basin: A 4-Part Webinar Series for Busy Professionals
This series of lunchtime webinars will offer participants the opportunity to explore and pursue new ways to improve the effectiveness of their plans, policies, and projects to simultaneously achieve wetland/habitat conservation and flood hazard mitigation goals; opportunities for establishing new collaborations with other disciplines and agencies; and new sources of state and federal funding that could be leveraged for wetland and wildlife habitat conservation and flood hazard mitigation. The webinar series builds on the findings of the Wetlands, Wildlife Habitat, and Flood Hazard in the Rock River Basin Workshop held in 2011 by the Environmental Law Institute, University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment, and the Wisconsin Wetlands Association (see below). Contact Rebecca Kihslinger at kihslinger@eli.org to register for a webinar.
- Funding Opportunities for Collaborative Projects: August 20, 2012
- Resource Brief
- Wetland Project Funding Opportunities-- Wisconsin Wetland Association
- Presentations
- Local Government Eligibility for State Wetland Program Development Grants - Sue Elston, EPA
- Lake Protection Grants - Susan Graham, WDNR
- River Protection Grants - Greg Searle, WDNR
- Floodplain Management Grants -- Gary Heinrichs, WDNR
- Hazard Mitigation Planning Process: October 2, 2012
- Resource Brief
- Presentations
- State Hazard Mitigation Planning -- Roxanne Gray, Wisconsin Emergency Management
- Local Hazard Mitigation Planning -- David Janda, Dane County Emergency Management
- Leveraging Hazard Mitigation Plans for Conservation Acquisitions -- Jane Anklam, West Wisconsin Land Trust
- Using Zoning to Solve Problems, Save Wetlands, and Please the Public: October 17, 2012
- Resource Brief
- Wetland Project Funding Opportunities -- Wisconsin Wetland Association
- Wetland Resources for Local Governments -- Wisconsin Wetland Association
- Presentations
- Wetland Zoning Opportunities and Planning Tools -- Erin O'Brien and Kyle Magyera, Wisconsin Wetlands Association
- Going Above and Beyond State Minimum Standards for Shoreland and Wetland Zoning, How and Why -- Brian Standing, Dane County Department of Planning and Development
- Prioritized Wetland Restoration in the Rock River Basin: November 7, 2012
- Resource Brief
- Presentations
- Refining the Potentially Restorable Wetland Map -- Scott Taylor, Rock River Coalition
- Delavan Lake Watershed Initiative Network -- Maggie Zoellner, Delevan Lake Watershed Initiative Network
- The NAWCA Grant Process and Ongoing Restoration/Protection Work in the Rock River Basin -- Michele Kille, The Nature Conservancy
This Webinar Series was organized by the Environmental Law Institute in collaboration with the Wisconsin Wetlands Association and the Rock River Coalition with generous funding from the McKnight Foundation.