I have included the Iowa draft agenda for your review. I previously posted
the draft agendas for Illinois and Michigan and received some hot tips.
Thank you! Heidi Carter
Learning Goals:
1. To understand the structure and function of a watershed
2. To link sustainable agriculture to watershed planning
3. To define stakeholders and groups within a watershed
4. To highlight the opportunities and challenges of watershed planning
5. To combine technical aspects of watersheds with community issues
6. To provide methods and materials for teaching watershed planning
7. To broaden the audience background at the NCSATP workshops
Objectives:
1. To provide opportunities for networking
2. To build and distribute a topical and up-to-date resource notebook
3. To emphasize linkages among universities, agencies, producers, and other
stakeholders
4. To present skills that participants can use on their jobs
5. To demonstrate and practice a variety of learning methods
Draft Agenda
Facing a Watershed: Managing Profitable and Sustainable Landscapes in the
21st Century
Holiday Inn Gateway Center, Ames, Iowa, July 13-15, 1998
Monday, July 13
10:00 Welcome from Iowa Team and Dennis Keeney, director of Leopold Center,
and Introduction of Participants
10:30 Learning Goals and Objectives (Richard Pirog, Leopold Center)
10:45 Structure and Function of Watersheds (Richard Olson, University of
Nebraska)
12:00 History of Bear Creek Watershed (Tom Isenhart, Iowa State University)
12:30 Lunch at the Holiday Inn Gateway Center
1:30 Drive to Bear Creek Watershed and tour area (Tom Isenhart, Iowa State
University, and Del Christensen, Trees Forever)
See projects and complete two water sampling exercises
5:00 Drive to Rhodes Research Farm and receive reading assignments for
Tuesday morning session (Dennis Shannon, Iowa State University)
6:00 Dinner catered at and tour of Rhodes Research Farm, hog hoop houses
and confinement facilities (Dennis Shannon, Iowa State University)
Tuesday, July 14
8:00 Review Learning Goals and Objectives and Complete Evaluation from
previous day (Richard Pirog, Leopold Center)
8:15 Break into groups to discuss different approaches to watershed
management, Bear Creek (Tom Isenhart, Iowa State University); Pine Creek
Watershed (Jennifer Welsh, Natural Resources Conservation Service—Iowa);
George Butler, Inc.—Kansas (Stephanie Byard); Three-mile Watershed (Jerry
Neppel, Iowa State University and co-presenters); MN group
9:00 Decision Case from the Minnesota River (representative from the
Program for Decision Cases, University of Minnesota, and volunteers)
10:00 Break
10:15 Reports from groups on Decision Case
10:45 Overview of Long-Term Research at Walnut Creek and Effects of
Production Practices and Watershed Land Use on Water Quality (Dan Jaynes,
Soil Tilth Laboratory)
11:45 Lunch at the Holiday Inn Gateway Center
12:45 Innovative Farming Practices as Potential Tools in Watershed
Management (Members from the Practical Farmers of Iowa)
1:45 Biological Monitoring Scheme for Watershed Management (Larry Gates,
Natural Resources Conservation Service—Minnesota, and farmers)
3:00 Break and drive to a site for a hands-on activity, either a
reconstructed wetland or a buffer initiative demonstration site (Larry
Gates, Natural Resources Conservation Service—Minnesota, farmers, and Del
Christensen, Trees Forever)
5:00 Adjourn
6:00 Dinner catered at Onion Creek Farm or a park and informal discussion
on food systems (Gary Huber, Field to Family, host)
Wednesday, July 15
8:00 Review Learning Goals and Objectives and Complete Evaluation from
previous day (Richard Pirog, Leopold Center)
8:15 State Reports on Professional Development Programs
9:00 Racoon River Watershed (Roger Wolf, Racoon River Watershed Project)
10:00 Break
10:15 Iowa City Clear Creek Project (Wayne Petersen, Natural Resources
Conservation Service—Iowa, and Kent Newman, Wallace House Foundation)
11:00 Case Study Using Iowa City Clear Creek Project (Iowa Team moderates)
12:00 Group Evaluation of Facing a Watershed: Managing Profitable and
Sustainable Landscapes in the 21st Century (Heidi Carter, University of
Nebraska)
12:20 Lunch at the Holiday Inn Gateway Center and adjourn
1:30 Post workshop tour at Dick Thompson's farm, Boone, IA
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Heidi Carter E-Mail: csas007@unlvm.unl.edu
Education Coordinator Phone: 402-472-0917
Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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