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| #e.21885 | Thursday 9:00AM to 3:00PM
November 29,
2012 | CM | 6.00 |
Evaluating and Conserving Natural Assets: Maximizing conservation potential in the developing landscape for abundant recreation, clean water, clean air, wildlife, healthy forests, beautiful vistas, and strong economiesUniversity of VirginiaRichmond, VA Evaluating and Conserving Natural Assets: Maximizing conservation potential in the developing landscape for abundant recreation, clean water, clean air, wildlife, healthy forests, beautiful vistas, and strong economies.
Plan to attend this one-day workshop to learn how to apply new design and planning tools for maximizing both economic and ecological values. This is a hands-on planning and mapping workshop for local governments, conservation groups, land trusts and developers who want to create communities that are healthy both ecologically and economically! This workshop will demonstrate how to use readily available tools to evaluate your locality or development plan to ensure that you have the best strategy possible for creating a resilient community. You will learn practical methods for using the best data to determine when, where and how to grow while still having a vibrant, green and beautiful community. Redevelopment and re-greening of the already built environment will also be covered. Case examples and methods will be provided for all types of development patterns from wildlands, to rural areas to suburbs and cities!
The Green Infrastructure Center presents three workshops. Each workshop will be similar but will feature data from the local region. Pick just one workshop to attend. Participants are encouraged to attend the workshop closest to them for convenience, however they many attend any location. All workshops are held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Space is limited to the first 40 registrants at each meeting so register today! A registration fee of $20.00 includes lunch and unlimited coffee. Each participant will also receive a free copy of the new GIC Guide to Conserving Natural and Cultural Assets.
Pre-registration is required within 7 days prior to the workshop date. Make checks for $20.00 payable to the GIC for lunch and beverages. Credit card payments may be made on line at http://www.gicinc.org/donate.htm but the registration form must also be sent to GIC. Participants can download and fill in the registration form and e-mail it to kline@gicinc.org or mail it with a check for $20.00 to: GIC, P.O. Box 317, Charlottesville VA 22902.
Please go to http://gicinc.org/events.htm for the agendas and registration form for each event.
More Instructors: Karen Firehock AICP Karen Firehock, Executive Director
Ms. Firehock is the GIC Director and co-founded the center in 2006. She oversees green infrastructure planning and research projects. She is an environmental planner with more than twenty five years of experience in planning and natural resources management. She is also an adjunct lecturer in green infrastructure planning and environmental ordinance development at the University of Virginia (UVA)'s School of Architecture in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning. Prior to her current position, Ms. Firehock was a Senior Associate at the UVA Institute for Environmental Negotiation for seven years and served as coordinator for community watershed and land use plans for localities. She also coordinated the national Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium, and conducted public outreach for the USDA Forest Service’s Roundtable on Sustainable Forests. Prior to working for UVA, she served as the Director of the Save Our Streams Program at the Izaak Walton League for 12 years where she directed a national stream and wetland conservation program.
Ms. Firehock has authored numerous handbooks, including the Local Government’s Guide to Stream Corridor Protection, Collaboration: A Guide for Environmental Advocates, a Handbook for Wetlands Conservation and Sustainability, A Citizen's Streambank Restoration Handbook, and Local Watershed Management Planning in Virginia, A Community Water Quality Approach. She has won multiple awards for her planning work, including a Renew America Award for the Nation's Best Water Protection Program, a National River Greenways Award, State Conservationist of the Year Award, and Design Professional of the Year Award.
She has a bachelor of science degree in natural resources management from the School of Agriculture at the University of Maryland and a master of planning degree from the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
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