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Environment: Concerns and Actions
Southern Research Station Conference Room, 200 Weaver Boulevard
October 3, 2001
"It is extremely powerful for people to learn from their own experience of
failure"
- Ronald Heifetz
8:30 Coffee and Muffins
8:45 Panel: Understanding Environmental Concerns and What's Being
Done in
Western North Carolina
Moderator: Howard Jaslow (LAS XIV)
Educate: Bill Jackson, National Forest Service of North Carolina
Legislate: Rick Maas, director and professor, Environmental Studies
Program, UNCA
Engineer: Terry Albrecht, Waste Reduction Partners, Land of Sky Regiona
Council
10:00 Break
10:15 You Can Make A Difference
Quality Forward, Susan Roderick
Waste Reduction Partners, Terry Albrecht
River Keeper, Phillip Gibson
Asheville Greenway Commission, Gerry Hardesty and Paula Robbins
11:20 Board bus
11:30 Waterways, Greenways and RiverLink Bus Tour and Lunch
Karen Cragnolin (LA 7), executive director, RiverLink
1:30 Bus Trip and Tour of North Fork Reservoir
Stephanie Birnie, Regional Water Authority
Laurie Brokaw, Regional Water Authority
3:00 Return to Asheville
Suggested Activities and Volunteer Opportunities:
- NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way (Grounds daily 8-9, Visitor
Center 8-5 M-S, Greenhouse 8-4 M-F; buildings also open 2nd and 4th
Sundays 1:30-4:30)
- WNC Nature Center
- Botanical Gardens at UNCA
- French Broad River Park and Greenway
- LAS XV Float Trip on the French Broad, October 13
Special thanks to :Marylyn Seyler (LAS VIII), Hazel Fobes (LAS XI), Howard
Jaslow (LAS XIV), Beth Pilz (LAS XIII) and Bette Walburgh (LAS XIII)
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