NEW ENGLAND GREENWAY SYMPOSIUM

“New England Greenways: Making Connections Across the Northeast”

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Saturday, April 12, 2003

8:00 – 9:00 CELA Members Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 Registration,  Coffee and Refreshments

9:30 – 10:00 Introduction

Jessica Allan, Symposium Coordinator and Research Assistant, NE Greenways Consortium,

Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mark Westa, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut

Consortium co-chairs: Julius Gyula Fabos, Professor Emeritus; Robert Ryan, Assistant Professor; Mark Lindhult, Professor;

All Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department, University of Massachusetts

10:00 – 10:30 Keynote Speaker

                                Keith Laughlin, President, Rails to Trails Conservancy

10:30 – 10:45 Break, Coffee, and Refreshments

10:45 – 11:45 New England State Greenway Discussion

Massachusetts:  Jennifer Howard, Director, Trails and Greenways Program, DEM

Connecticut:  Leslie Lewis, Sr. Environmental Analyst, DEP

New Hampshire: Bob Spoerl, Program Specialist, Bureau of Trails

Vermont:  Steve Ovenden, Senior Planner, Windham Regional Commission 

11:45 – 12:45 Regional Greenway Discussion

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy: Craig della Penna, New England Representative

National Park Service, Rivers and Trails Program: Steve Golden, Program Leader

Connecticut River Watershed Council: Whitty Sanford, Co-Executive Director

Blackstone River Conservation Alliance: Lisa Mosczynski, Co-Founder 

12:45 – 1: 30 Lunch

1:30 – 1:45 East Coast Greenway Inauguration Update

                                Tony Barrett, Maine Chapter, East Coast Greenway Alliance

1:45 – 2:45 International Greenway Discussion

La Route Verte : Eric Weis, Assistant Director, East Coast Greenway Alliance and

 Bill O’ Neill, Connecticut Trustee, East Coast Greenway Alliance

St. Croix Blueway: Lee Sochasky, Executive Director, St. Croix International

     Waterway Commission

International Appalachian Trail: Will Richard, Board Member, IAT/SIA

2:45 – 3:00 Break, Coffee and Refreshments

3:00 -4:00         Landscape Architecture Programs in New England: Greenway and

Related Projects

University of Connecticut-Storrs: Mark Westa, Assistant Professor, Department

of Landscape Architecture

University of Rhode Island: Will Green, Associate Professor, Department of

Landscape Architecture

Rutgers State University: David Tulloch, Assistant Professor, and Jean Marie

Hartman, Assistant Professor, both Department of Landscape

Architecture

4:00– 4:30         Summary and Wrap Up