RAMAPO RIVER WATERSHED CONFERENCE

16TH ANNUAL

RAMAPO RIVER WATERSHED CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011

Ramapo College of New Jersey

505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, N.J. 07430, Student Center - Room 136

 9:30 am – Coffee and Bagels

10:00 - Remarks:  Ramapo College President Peter Mercer,

 Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef

10:15 -  A New Ramapo River Watershed Tour  2011 in Photos and HD Video

10:45 – Adam Strobel, Bergen County Planner, Visioning and Management Plan for Bergen County Ramapo Mountain Parklands

11:00 - Doc Bayne, Sterling Forest Historian: The Building of Sterling Forest Gardens:Historic Film of Peat Wetlands Drained to Create Gardens

11:30 - Rabbi Joel Mosbacher of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom Synagogue and co-founder of New Jersey Together; Joe Morris, lead Organizer of New Jersey Together: Using The Tools of  Citizens’ Organizing to Protect our Drinking Water and Hold Polluters Accountable.                     

 12:00 Noon – 1:15 pm     -     LUNCH

1:15 PM - Janet Burnet, New York State Chair:   Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route          National Trail Update

1:30 -  Kevin Olsen, Passaic River Institute, Montclair State University: Water Pollution Analysis in New Jersey, Employing the Cutting Edge Analytical Technology of 1876

2:00 - Chuck Stead, Cornell Cooperative Extension Educator / Adjunct Professor, Ramapo College: The Saltbox Environmental Research Center, Ford Toxic Legacy Continues

2:30 - Carl Padula, Chairman Flood Advisory Board, Pompton Lakes, Flood Problems in Pompton Lakes

                                    

 3:00 - E. Durling Merrill, Environmental Officer Pompton Lakes: Local Knowledge Based on Extensive Field Experience on the Lower Ramapo River

  3:15 - Don Steinmetz, HEnRI, Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda Program: From Forest to Faucet

3:45 - Howard Horowitz, Ramapo College: Geographic and Hydrologic Peculiarities of the Ramapo Watershed

4:00 - Geoff Welch, Ramapo River Committee: David Johnson, An Artist’s Nature Studies in Torne Valley During the 1870’s

4:30 - Wine and Cheese Reception

       

                       Presented by the Ramapo River Committee

and the Institute for Environmental Studies at Ramapo College

Kindly Sponsored by:

GEORGE L. BECKER Jr. MD, CGF

 PASSAIC RIVER COALITION

 ROCKLAND COUNTY, TOWN of RAMAPO, BETTY HEDGES, JAN BARRY

THE RAMAPO RIVER WATERSHED INTERMUNICIPAL COUNCIL

Free Event - Registration requested at geoffwelch@gmail.com (845) 712-5220