Tuesday, April 10th,
2007
6:00 pm Meet & Greet Social Hour Holiday
Inn
Wednesday, April 11th,
2007
8:00- 8:30 Breakfast
(provided) & Registration
8:30 9:00 Opening
Ceremonies & Introduction
RRFN Chief Jim Leonard & RRFN Elder Anne Wilson
9:00 9:45 Keynote
Address
Albert Marshall
Two-Eyed Seeing
and Some Companion Thoughts
9:45 10:30 Chad Yost & Richard Rothaus, St. Cloud State University
Wild Rice Restoration in Lake Ogechie, Minnesota
Harmonizing Traditional and Palaeoenvironmental Approaches
10:30 10:45 Break
Art Auction presented by the Northland Art Society
10:45
11:30 Peter Lee, Lakehead University
Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge as a
Mechanism for Advancements in the Science and Technology of Wild Rice
11:30 12:15 Leah
Prussia, White
Earth Land
Recovery Project
12:15 1:15 Lunch Presentation
Ilka Milne, Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists
A Sense of
Place: Growing the citizen in citizen science
1:15 2:00 Ingrid Schneider, University of Minnesota Dept. of Forest Resources
& Tourism Centre
Seeing beyond the trees: Recognizing & sustaining
forest-based tourism & recreation
2:00 2:45 John Zasada
Do Spruce Roots Have a Zipper?
2:45 3:00 Break Art
Auction presented by the Northland Art Society
3:00 4:30 Trent
Wickman, Superior
National Forest/
Chris Holbeck, Voyageurs National Park/
Mary
Jean Fenske, Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency
Managing Air
Resources in Northern Minnesota
~The Big
Picture (Trent Wickman)
~How
Regulation Leads to Preservation (Chris Holbeck)
~Regional
Haze Rule Implementation (Mary Jean Fenske)
4:30 Wrap-up
& Closing to Day One
Thursday, April 12th,
2007
8:30 9:00 Breakfast
(provided)
9:00 9:45 Mike Phillips, Minnesota Forest Resources Council
Guidelines for Sustainable
Timber Harvest in Riparian Forests
9:45 10:30 Craig
Halla, Forest Capital Partners
Forest Capital Partners Minnesota Management Philosophy
10:30 10:45 Break Art Auction
presented by the Northland Art Society
10:45 11:30 Paul Radomski, Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources
Minnesotas Alternative Shoreland Standards and the Science Behind
Them
11:30 12:15 Joe
Hunter, Sustainable
Sturgeon Culture
The Business of
Sustainability
12:15 1:15 Lunch Presentation
Richard David, Mohawks of Akwesasne
From Standing Tree to Finished Basket
1:15 2:00 Ed Eaton &
Kari Layman, International Rainy Lake
Board of Control
Overseeing
Transboundary Watersheds: The Work of the International Joint Commission and
Its Boards
2:00 2:45 Matthew Julius, St. Cloud State University
A Novel Partnership as a Model for Enhancing
Biological Monitoring Efforts within Voyageurs
National Park
2:45 3:00 Break Art
Auction presented by the Northland Art Society
3:00 3:45 Robert Shimek, Indigenous Environmental
Network
Cultural Impacts
of Mercury Contamination in Indigenous Peoples living in the Western
Great
Lakes Region of North America
3:45 Closing Ceremonies
