Land Trust Service Bureau's Twenty-third Annual Convocation of Connecticut Land Trusts

Saturday, March 25, 2006
Northeast Utilities
Berlin, CT
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Please join us at the offices of Northeast Utilities in Berlin, CT, on Saturday, March 25, 2006, for the annual gathering of Connecticut's 116 land trusts. Northeast Utilities' generous support once again allows us to offer morning and afternoon workshops as well as a buffet lunch at a low cost to participants.

In case of severe weather on the day of the Convocation, please phone 860-344-0716 for a recording of cancellation information.

We are very pleased to announce that Peter Forbes will be our keynote speaker at Convocation 2006. Peter Forbes is a photographer, writer, farmer and conservationist. He has worked in land conservation for 20 years and has pioneered a number of initiatives aimed at showing the role between land and a healthy human culture. For 10 years he was the New England regional director for the Trust for Public Land. In 2001 Peter founded the Center for Land and People to help foster a new practice of land conservation where the emphasis is on building relationships between people and the land. Peter is now the executive director of Center for Whole Communities, a new national initiative to build stronger connections between people, land and communities. Peter will speak on the role of land conservation in creating healthy, whole communities.

Nominations for Land Trust Service Bureau Awards are being accepted until March 7, 2006. The categories this year include: Model Outreach or Educational program; Substantial Size or Unique Habitat Land Acquisition; Successful Partnership; Improved or Expanded Stewardship program; or Successful Fundraising or Membership project. Nominations in other categories will be considered.
Agenda

8:30 am Registration/Lobby Displays

9:00 am Welcome and Awards
Lise A. Hanners, State Director, The Nature Conservancy
Linda Bowers, Dir. of Protection, The Nature Conservancy

9:15 am Keynote Session
Peter Forbes, Executive Director of the Center for Whole Communities

10:30 am Coffee Break

10:45 am Morning Sessions I
__A. Accreditation for Land Trusts
__B. Recordkeeping Essentials for Land Conservation
__C. Introduction to Conservation Options
__D. Baseline Documentation Reports for Conservation Easements
__E. Dam Ownership by Default: Owner beware!
__F. Deer Management

12:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 pm Afternoon Sessions II
__A. What Does the State Capitol have to do with Land Trusts?
__B. Insurance Coverage for Land Trusts
__C. Panel Discussion: Pros and Cons of Forest Management
__D. Conservation of Lands Owned by Religious Communities
__E. Invasive Plant Management
__F. Farmland Protection for Watershed Quality

2:45 – 4:00 pm Afternoon Sessions III
__A. Developing and Maintaining Your Website
__B. Organizing a Successful Fundraising Campaign
__C. Web-based Tools for Land Planning/Conservation
__D. Advanced Conservation Options: Complicated Deals
__E. Roundtable: Violations of Land Trust Property
__F. Managing Lands for Habitat and Income

Directions to Northeast Utilities, just off the Berlin Turnpike in Berlin, CT

Traveling North on I-91: Travel I-91 North to Exit 22N-S for Route 9 North (New Britain & Middletown). Bear left on Exit 22N (New Britain) to Route 9 North. Travel Route 9 North approx. 2.4 miles to Exit 21 for Route 372 (East Berlin, Routes 5 & 15 North, Hartford). Turn right at the end of the exit onto Route 372 West. Continue for .4 mile to the first exit (unnumbered) for Routes 5 & 15 North (Hartford). Travel north on Routes 5 & 15 approx. 1.7 miles to Berlin. NU offices will be on the right on a hill. At a traffic signal, take a right onto Selden St. and continue up the hill. Turn left from Selden St. into the NU complex. Follow TNC signs to conference.

Traveling South on I-91: Travel Route I-91 South to Exit 28 from Routes 5 & 15 South (Berlin Turnpike, Wethersfield & Newington). Travel south approx. 6.8 miles on Routes 5 & 15 to Berlin. The NU offices will be on the left on a hill. At a traffic signal, take a left onto Selden St. and continue up the hill. Turn left from Selden St. into the NU complex. Follow TNC signs to conference.

Traveling East on I-84: Travel Route I-84 East to Exit 35 for Route 72 East and Route 9 South (New Britain and Middletown). Exit 35 is a left-hand exit. This section of highway begins as Route 72 East and then becomes Route 9 South. After approx. 3.4 miles the highway will fork; stay to the right following Route 9 South (Berlin and Middletown) for about 4 miles. Take Exit 21 for Routes 5 & 15 (Hartford and New Haven). At the end of the exit, stay to the right, merging onto Routes 5 & 15 North. Travel north on Routes 5 & 15 approx. 1.8 miles to Berlin. NU offices will be on the right on a hill. At a traffic signal, take a right onto Selden St. and continue up the hill. Turn left from Selden St. into the NU complex. Follow TNC signs to conference.

Traveling West on I-84: Travel Route I-84 West to Exit 57 for Routes 5 & 15 South. (This is a left-hand exit for the Charter Oak Bridge, Route 15 South, I-91 South, New York City). Stay to the left side on the Charter Oak Bridge and continue to follow signs for Routes 5 & 15 South. Travel south approx. 8 miles from the bridge, on Routes 5 & 15, to Berlin. The NU offices will be on the left on a hill. At a traffic signal, take a left onto Selden St. and continue up the hill. Turn left from Selden St. into the NU complex. Follow TNC signs to conference.

Land Trust Service Bureau's Twenty-third Annual Convocation of Connecticut Land Trusts

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