Hosted by the Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance at the St. James Hotel in Red Wing.

AGENDA
Moderator: Mike McKay, Executive Director, Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance

8:30 - 9:00           Registration, Coffee

9:00 - 9:10          Welcome  
Gaylen Reetz, Regional Division Director, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

9:10 - 10:10        Thinking Big: The Chesapeake Bay Experience
Rich Batiuk, Associate Director of Science, Chesapeake Bay Program, U.S. EPA

10:10 - 10:30      BREAK

EYE ON THE PRIZE: FROM VISION TO INDICATORS TO METRICS

10:30 - 11:00      Mississippi River TMDL as Catalyst for Action
Norman Senjem, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

11:00 - 11:15      From Vision to Indicators: Working with Citizens
Laura Jester, Dakota County Soil & Water Conservation District

11:15- 11:45       From Indicators to Metrics: Grounding the Vision in Ecological Science
Tim Schlagenhaft, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

11:45- 12:00       Question & Answer Session                              

12:00 - 12:45      LUNCH

GETTING TO THE SOURCE: FIELDS, RAVINES AND STREAMBANKS

12:45 - 1:30         Tracing Sediment over Time & Space
Dr. Daniel Engstrom, Director, St. Croix Watershed Research Station

 1:30- 1:45            Meeting the Challenge of Non-field Sources of Sediment
Don Baloun, Minnesota State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

1:45 - 2:00           BREAK

 2:00 - 2:15           Sediment Losses from Agriculture: View from the Tractor Seat
David Legvold, farmer 

2:15 - 3:00           Agricultural Leadership for Clean Water
Roger Wolf, Director of Environmental Services & Programs, Iowa Soybean Association

3:00 - 3:15           Thinking Big, Moving Ahead
Rich Batiuk and Mike McKay

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