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Anna
Haines, Ph.D. (715) 346-2386
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Center Director, Associate Professor and Land Use Specialist Anna Haines is an associate professor in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and a land use and community development specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Haines received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Her research and teaching focuses on planning and community development from a natural resources or environmental perspective. Her current applied research projects focus on the factors that influenced land division in amenity-rich areas of Wisconsin; identifying factors that make small cities and rural areas livable, attractive, and work as an economic development strategy; and decision making by local government officials for bio-fuel plants. Her extension work has focused on comprehensive planning and planning implementation tools and techniques, sustainable communities, and property rights issues. |
Lynn Markham UWSP-CNR 800 Reserve St Stevens Point, WI 54481
(715) 346-3879
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Shoreland and Land Use Specialist Lynn Markham is a Land Use Specialist with UW-Extension at the Center for Land Use Education. Her extension work has focused on land use tools and techniques to protect drinking water, lakes and streams; zoning and boards of adjustment/appeals; and sustainable communities. To assist communities, Lynn provides research-based information, policy options and community case studies. Her recent projects have included a community groundwater planning website, a zoning board handbook, and short publications about protecting waterfront investments, eco-municipalities, organic food and health effects, and creating lawns that are healthy for children, pets and water quality. |
Eric Olson UWSP-CNR 800 Reserve St Stevens Point, WI 54481
(715) 346-2278
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Instructor and Land Use Specialist Eric Olson is a new faculty member in the Center for Land Use Education. Eric comes to Stevens Point with a background in Urban Planning (MS University of Wisconsin 1999) and Forestry (BS University of Minnesota, 1990). Eric recently worked on a watershed planning project in the Long Lake watershed in Washburn County, a two-year project coordinated by CLUE and the Center for Watershed Science and Education. His dissertation research focuses on the social interactions that occur when communities engage in goal-setting for comprehensive planning. His Extension projects will have him working with communities on comprehensive planning projects as well as watershed planning, zoning and subdivision regulations, and water resource protection. Ongoing and future research interests include the social dynamics of planning processes, the growth of housing in amenity-rich rural areas, and assessments of land resource protection strategies. |
Douglas
Miskowiak UWSP-CNR 800 Reserve St Stevens Point, WI 54481 (715)
346-4989
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Outreach Specialist Doug Miskowiak has his BS Natural Resources and MS Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Douglas is a former employee at the University of Wisconsin – Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility (LICGF) where he researched the impact of information technologies like GIS on citizen decision making for land use planning. At LICGF he was on the “Shaping Dane’s Future” project team that was awarded former Vice President Al Gore’s Hammer Award for Reinventing Government. Douglas continues his interest engaging citizen-planners in all stages of the planning process. |
Rebecca
Roberts UWSP-CNR 800 Reserve St Stevens Point, WI 54481 (715)
346-4322
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Land Use Specialist Becky Roberts received a B.A. in Biology and Spanish from Augustana College, and a M.U.P. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For her master’s research, Becky worked with the Lake Michigan Federation to evaluate the land use plans and regulations of lakeshore communities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Prior to coming to CLUE, Becky also worked for the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, where she helped to create a regional land use model and decision support system that enables citizens, planners and policy-makers to visualize and test the social, economic and environmental impacts of various land use scenarios. |
Linda Stoll UWSP-CNR 800 Reserve St Stevens Point, WI 54481 (715)
346-4853
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Outreach Specialist Linda Stoll received her B.S. in Environmental Science from Carroll College, Waukesha, WI, and her M.S. in Natural Resource Management from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. Linda was formerly the executive director of a regional watershed organization and an environmental planning consultant. She served as lead planner for the Portage Co. Open Space Plan, County Trail Plan, and Land and Water Conservation Plan and facilitator for several watershed management plans in Northeast Wisconsin and trail plans in the Fox River Valley. She is currently working on a series of planning implementation tools and techniques. Her research focuses on natural resource-based planning with special interest in the role of green infrastructure and walking and biking facilities in sustainable communities, the impact of citizen participation in land use planning and the use of alternative dispute resolution to resolve land use planning issues.
Linda serves as the Northeast District representative to
the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning
Association and the chair of the Great Lakes Chapter of
the International Association for Public Participation.
She is a mediator for the Winnebago County court system. |
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Robert
Newby (715)
346-3783 |
Office Manager Robert Newby is the Office Manager at the Center for Land Use Education. He has been in Administration for over 20 years. Previously, he was employed at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County, one of the freshman/sophomore campuses of the University of Wisconsin System, where he was the Financial Aid Administrator and Veterans Coordinator in the Student Services Office for the past seven years. |
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Other UW-Extension Land Use Specialists
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Alicia
Acken Cosgrove AICP  Land Use Specialist 123 J RDI 403 S Third Street River Falls, WI 54022
(715)425-3083 @uwrf.edu
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Land Use Specialist Alicia Acken is the Land Use Specialist for UW-Extension. She is housed on the UW-River Falls campus and has a joint appointment in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. Alicia will be working with the county extension agents to develop and implement land use educational programming focused primarily on Smart Growth land use issues including: comprehensive planning, Smart Growth case studies, ordinance development using a GIS in the planning process, land use planning and natural resources. Alicia is currently setting up individual meetings with the Extension Agents in Northwest Wisconsin to get a better understanding of the land use issues facing each county. If she can be helpful to your own land use, or smart growth planning efforts please feel free to email her at. |
Kevin
Struck Growth Mgmt Educator 650 Forest Avenue Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085 (920)467-5740 @ces.uwex.edu |
Growth Management Educator, Sheboygan & Washington Counties
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