Ramapo River Watershed Conference

The Tenth Anniversary Ramapo River Watershed Conference

Friday, April 29, 2005

Ramapo College of New Jersey

505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah,  NJ,   Student Center - Room 136

MORNING

 9:30 a.m. - Coffee

10:00: Welcome: Geoff Welch, Howard Horrowitz:

            Greetings: Acting President of Ramapo College

10:15: Remarks: Scott Vanderhoef, Rockland County Executive

10:20: Bradley Campbell: Commissioner, New Jersey Department of  Environment Protection [Invited] : New Jersey Efforts to

            Protect the Ramapo River

     10:40: Dorothy Peteet: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Hudson Valley Marshes - Archives of Regional Climate and Ecosystem Shifts over Millennia

     11:10: Paul Heisig, Hydrologist U.S. Geological Survey: Rockland County Water Resource Study   

11:30: Ramapo College Environmental Assessment Class:  Generic  Environmental Impact Study of the Ramapo River

12:15 - 1:30 - LUNCH

AFTERNOON

1:30:  Craig Long Town of Ramapo Historian: The Great Flood of 1903 in the Ramapo Valley (Multi-Screen Slide Show)

2:00:  Edward McGowan Science Director, NY/NJ Trail Conference: Biodiversity  Survey of the Ramapo Mountains in the New York Highlands

2:20: Edward Goodell: Executive Director, NY/NJ Trail Conference: Open Space Preservation Campaign   

2:40: Cathy Quinn: New Rockland County GIS Stream Mapping and  Analysis

3:00: Carol Ash, Executive Director, Palisades Interstate Park Commission and Christopher St. Lawrence, Supervisor, Town of  Ramapo:  

           The Ramapo River Watershed Intermunicipal Council   

3:30: Wine and Cheese 10^th Anniversary Reception  with special musical guests 

Free Conference, Registration Requested at gwelch1@optonline.net

Presented by The Ramapo River Committee

And The Institute for Environmental Studies at Ramapo College

Kindly Sponsored by:

GEORGE L. BECKER R. MD, CDF                              BETTY & IRA HEDGES

PASSAIC RIVER COALITION                       STERLING FOREST PARTNERSHIP

THE ROCKLAND COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION

ROCKLAND COUNTY

TOWN OF RAMAPO

Villages OF SUFFERN and SLOATSBURG

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