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  Wisconsin Lakes Convention

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Highlights
of the
2010 Wisconsin Lakes Convention

Looking for deals and incentives these days?  The 2010 Wisconsin Lakes Convention will be the perfect educational venue to find the answers to all your lake related questions, participate in hands on workshops, and network with experts in the field all in one place for one low price.  Speaking of low price, the cost for this event has not gone up in three years!  That's right, register before the Early Bird Deadline of March 8, 2010 for only $165.  Get three days packed full of:

  • Waterfront History, Policy and Regulation
  • Updates to NR 115
  • Water Quality and Ecological Health
  • Research on Shorelands & Shallows
  • Economics of Shoreland Management
  • The Land & Water Interface
  • Human Dimensions of Shorelands & Shallows
  • Lake Organization Capacity Building

Other important issues and topics, including shoreland restoration, basic limnology, and trainings for lake district commissioners, Clean Boats Clean Waters and Citizen Lake Monitoring Network volunteers will also be offered.

Speaker Highlights

Internationally recognized restoration ecologist, Steven I. Apfelbaum will be joining us in Green Bay to discuss his new book, Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm (referred to as the 21st century sequel to the best-selling classic A Sand County Almanac).  Steven is founder, president and senior ecologist of Applied Ecological Services, and is among the best-known world leaders in ecological system restoration, conservation development and the restoration of hydrology.

Fred Rozumalski, an ecologist and landscape architect in the water resources division of Barr Engineering, will join us to discuss techniques to incorporate the aesthetic of neatness into our lakeshore restorations, while preserving the native landscape.

Special guest Tim Bedore, comedian and radio commentary of Vague but True www.vaguebuttrue.com will be an added value.  Please join us at the end of March to learn how each one of us can help protect the shorelands and shallows of our natural beauties, Wisconsin's lakes.


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