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Land Trust Alliance Seminar: "Conservation Easements: Keys to Permanence"
Tennessee Land Trusts Network Meeting - follows seminar
Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
L & C Tower, 17th Floor Conference Room
How to Register: Registration is on-line when you register for the NAA Conference with an addition $20 fee. If you are only attending this seminar and not the NAA Conference, register directly at:
Barbara McCarthy
The Land Trust for Tennessee
209 10th Av. S. Suite 50
Nashville, TN 37203
This seminar will review how to assure permanency in conservation easement agreements with private landowners, and will review best practices in negotiating and drafting easements, baseline documentation, stewardship and regular monitoring, maintaining positive landowner relationships, handling violations, dealing with future amendments, and long-term enforcement and defense. Contents of the workshop will be drawn from several units of the Land Trust Alliance's new Standards and Practices Curriculum. The presenters will provide short synopses of each topic, followed by open discussion aimed to address "real life" issues of concerns to the participants.
Instructors: the workshop instructors are Leslie Ratley-Beach, the Land Trust Alliance national conservation defense program director (and former legal counsel for the Vermont Land Trust); assisted by Laurel Florio, a Land Trust Alliance trainer and counselor (and former attorney for Ducks Unlimited).
Time and Location: This workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 9 am to 3 pm (with a one hour lunch break) will be held in the L&C Building (17th floor conference hall) near the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Nashville.
Costs: the Land Trust Alliance is largely financing this workshop with grants from the Lyndhurst, Merck, and Charles Stewart Mott foundations. A fee of $20 per attendee will cover costs of workshop reference materials. A noon hour break will be allowed for workshop attendees to eat lunch on their own at the nearby Arcade building.
Tennessee Land Trusts Network meeting: the coalition of land conservancies operating in Tennessee will hold its business meeting following conclusion of the workshop.
NAA ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON MEETING
12:00-1:20pm Wed. October 15th
The Doubletree Hotel, Nashville, TN
A WORLD CAFÉ WITH NAA
Come have lunch with us.
Engage in an intelligent, interactive session
about questions that matter.
Help shape the future of your NAA!
All NAA Members Invited!
Please RSVP With Your Conference Registration
NAA Focus Group Discussions Lunch (Bring Your Lunch)
Friday, 12:15- 1:20 pm (Doubletree Hotel)
Join with NAA board members to discuss topics that are "hot" in NAA right now. There will be 2 focus groups for sure and more may develop out of discussion at the membership meeting. The two topics on the agenda for now are Certification - Do we need it and What is NAA's Role and Being Responsive to the Needs of Younger Natural Areas Professionals. These discussions will be led by NA board members and the results will be shared with the whole board at the next NAA board meeting.
NAEPPC Lunch and Meeting
Friday, 12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Join NAEPPC for lunch and an informal exchange of ideas and discussion about the goals of the organization and plans for future activity. All EPPC/IPC members and those interested in EPPC/IPC are invited. If you did not provide your RSVP at registration, please let us know at the NAEPPC table that you plan to attend.