SWS Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia
Chapter Newsletter
December, 2001
Mid-Atlantic Chapter Members -
Happy Holidays!
It has been quite a year.
In the new year, I hope we can all focus on restoring our
spirits and our
world.
For the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, much will be occurring in the
new year.
The Chapter is a sponsor of the Phragmites Forum to be held
January 6th
through the 9th www.njmsc.org
. In February, we are attempting to put
together a dinner lecture in Washington DC and a working
meeting for
watershed managers and wetland managers in New Jersey. Board
elections will be held in early May, so think about
nominating someone
or volunteering yourself.
And in June, your Chapter is sponsoring the annual SWS
meeting in
Lake Placid!
Having made the drive to Lake Placid just before
Thanksgiving, I can say
that it is quite a drive (about 5 hours from the New York
metropolitan
area) but worth it once you get there. It is a lovely town
with much to
offer any outdoor enthusiast and the Lake Placid Resort
& Golf Club is a
beautiful setting for the conference.
The theme for the conference is “Wetland Linkages” and while
planning
for the conference, we realized that the theme of linkages
has so much
more meaning at this time. Our planning efforts have been
focused on
creating a conference that will bring us together to learn
about and
discuss some difficult scientific issues, but during the
off-hours, relax in
an informal and family-like atmosphere at a low cost.
Off-hours activities
include exciting and interesting field trips, morning
birding walks and
jogs around Mirror Lake, and a Tuesday night barbecue with
Adirondack
storytelling, live music, and the SWS all-star jam. As I was
writing this, I
had cause to pull out my dictionary for something else, and
happened to
look up the meaning of “symposium” which, in ancient Greece,
was an
entertainment characterized by drinking, music and
intellectual
discussion. So I think we can call our Tuesday night
gathering a special
“symposium.”
Other symposium include:
USEPA’s “Isolated” Wetlands
Association of State Wetland Manager’s Wetlands and Climate
Change
Adirondack Park Agency’s Natural History of the Adirondacks
American Water Resources Association’s Wetlands and
Groundwater
Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society’s
Coastal Wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes - Health,
Sustainability and Management
Plus all of our contributed sessions. Check out the webpage
for more
info. (www.sws.org/lakeplacid
)
We will continue to try to bring the Chapter closer to each
of you and
truly make it your chapter. But as always, we need you to
make the
suggestion and then we can work with you to make it happen.
Thanks to Jane Rowan for all of her helpful suggestions and
communication!
Quick news and notes:
Pinelands Nursery & Supply’s 11th Annual Native Plant
Symposium,
Wednesday, January 16th, NJ Ecocomplex, Columbus, NJ. Call
Pinelands
for details: (800) 667-2729.
5th National Wetland Mitigation Banking Conference,
Washington D.C.,
February 27th - March 1 (www.terrene.org
).
EPA’s Hydrophytic Vegetation Workshop, Atlantic City, New
Jersey.
March 20 - 22. Contact Ralph Spagnolo mailto:spagnolo.ralph@epa.gov) or
Frank Reilly mailto:frank@thereillygroup.net).
NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program is offering grants of up to
$4000 to
support and encourage the efforts of citizen stewards whole
goals are
consistent with those of the Estuary Program. For info,
contact Laura
Bartovics, HEP Outreach Coordinator, 212-637-3816 or
That’s about it for this year.
The best to you in the New Year!
- Terry Doss, The Louis Berger Group, Inc.
Albert McCullough, Sustainable Science
Don Ferlow, Stearns & Wheler
Brett Berkley, Langan Engineering
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| President:
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| tdoss@louisberger.com
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Terry Doss,
President, SWS Mid-Atlantic Chapter
http://www.sws.org/regional/midatlantic
e-mail: tdoss@louisberger.com
phone: (973) 678-1960, x470
fax: (973) 672-4284