Hello CFGN!  Susan Boldt and I happen to be cosponsoring an event that will be held on Monday, March 3rd. 

Three speakers from New Orleans will be coming up to talk about the role of wetlands in the sustainble restoration of the Lower 9th Ward.  We will be having a presentation, panel discussion and a crawfish boil.  Please RSVP by tomorrow (Friday) if you will be coming to the crawfish boil.

It would be great to see you all again and catch up on all the exciting work you have been doing ~Ashleigh

 

EVENTS (all Monday, March 3, 2008):

Brown Bag Lunch Presentation: Sustainable Restoration of the Lower 9^th Ward

12:05-1:05, UW-Madison, Science Hall (Room 180)

 

Panel Discussion

1:10-2:10—UW-Madison, Science Hall (Room 175)

 

Open Q & A

2:15-2:45—UW-Madison, Science Hall (Room 175)

Participants will be available to take questions from the public and the press.

 

Crawfish Boil

5:30-8:00- UW-Madison, Science Hall (Basement)

Please RSVP to Ashleigh Ross jaross2@... or Genya Erling genyae@...

For the past year and a half, a group of University of Wisconsin graduate students have traveled to the still-devastated Lower 9^th Ward in New Orleans to work on a community-driven wetland restoration project. On March 3^rd, the Lower 9^th Ward is coming to Madison.

 

Community leaders Charles Allen III and Pam Dashiell will join UW-Madison alum Dr. Rob Moreau as panel presenters for an upcoming workshop highlighting the role of wetland restoration for New Orleans’ long-term survival and the Lower 9^th Ward’s vision to create a socially and environmentally sustainable community.

 

The event, free and open to the public, will take place on the UW-Madison campus and is sponsored by: the WRM- New Orleans, Katrina Action Network, Bring Back the Bayou, Environmental Law Society, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Associated Students of Madison, Slow Food-Madison and the Wisconsin Experience Grant.

 

 

Panel:

Charles Allen III (MSPH, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine)

President of HCNA; Assistant Director of the Center for Bio-Environmental Research External Relations, Tulane University

Topic: Community-driven planning process guiding the sustainable redevelopment of the Lower 9th Ward

 

Pam Dashiell

Former President of the Lower 9^th Ward’s Holy Cross Neighborhood Association (HCNA), Chair of HCNA Board of Directors

Topic: Environmental justice and neighborhood restoration

 

Rob Moreau (Ph.D., Land Resources, UW-Madison, 1996)

Instructor of Biological Sciences and Director of Turtle Cove Environmental Research Station, Southeastern Louisiana State University; Adjunct Professor, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Tulane University

Topic: Wetland restoration in coastal Louisiana