WETLANDS WORKSHOP PLANNED FOR MAY 18

This workshop is for anyone who loves wildlife and wild places, especially
wetlands, and who is willing to take some personal action on behalf of Iowa'
s wetlands.  At this workshop, you will learn how to take action to protect
wetlands including the basics of reading and commenting on proposed wetlands
development permits, the basics of wetlands law and regulation,  and how to
use the media to save your wetland.

It will be a fun opportunity to meet other people in Iowa who care about
wildlife and wetlands!

Iowa Wetlands Workshop
Saturday, May 18

To be held at:
Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities Building
1735 N.E. 70th Avenue
Ankeny, Iowa
(Just north of Des Moines)

Agenda

7:00 - 8:30 Morning Birdwalk
8:30 - 9:00  Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and participants introduce themselves
9:15 - 10:00  Wetlands of Iowa, Jim Dinsmore, Iowa State University
- What is a wetland?
- Types of wetlands in Iowa
- Status of Iowa Wetlands
10:00 - 10:15 What good are Wetlands? Julie Sibbing, NWF
10:15 -- 10:45 How Wetlands are Regulated at the Federal Level Part I:
Understanding the laws and agency roles
Daniel Rosenberg, NRDC and Julie Sibbing, NWF
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 How Wetlands are Regulated: Part II
11:45 - 12:15 Keynote address:
Making Your Voice Heard -- Effective Communications with Resource Agencies
Colonel Bill Bayles, Rock Island District, Army Corps of Engineers
12:15 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 How Wetlands are Regulated at the State level:
Iowa DNR role in permit review
Ralph Turkle, IDNR
1:30 - 2:00  How do you replace a wetland?  Introduction to mitigation
  Julie Sibbing, NWF
- Types of Mitigation
- Status of Mitigation success
- Evaluating Mitigation proposals
2:00 - 2:30 Developing a Comprehensive strategy to a proposed wetland impact
project
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:15 Media Basics, Becky Soglin, Iowa Wetlands in Need
3:15 - 4:30 Small Group Activity: "putting it all together"
4:30 - 5:00 Presentation of small group strategies to group and discussion
5:00  Adjourn
*Thanks to the Iowa Wildlife Federation, Audubon Iowa, Sierra Club, the
Clean Water Network, the National Wildlife Federation and Natural Resources
Defense Council for making this event possible!*
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REGISTRATION FORM
Iowa Wetlands Workshop
Return by May 15

If you are interested in attending the Iowa wetlands workshop, please return
this form as soon as possible, but no later than May 15, 2002. Please note
that there is a $15 registration fee to cover breakfast and lunch. Please
fill out this registration form and return it to Jane Clark at
[log in to unmask] or mail it to Jane at 9871 Lincoln Ave., Des Moines, IA
50325. Jane is at 515-223-5047.

Name:
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______ YES, I plan to attend the Iowa wetlands workshop on May 18 at the
Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities building, 1735 N.E. 70th Avenue,
Ankeny, Iowa, just outside of Des Moines.

______ YES, I have included my $15 registration fee made out to "Jane
Clark".
______ NO, I have not included my registration fee but will pay it at the
workshop.

Meals

____ I will be at breakfast.
____ I will be at lunch.

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