Preliminary Program Last Updated November 2nd NOVEMBER 13-15, 2018 LATORNELL KEYNOTE SPEAKERS CONSERVATION SYMPOSIUM

Lunch · Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Lunch · Wednesday, November 14, 2018 Dr. Dan Longboat David Ullrich Associate Professor and Director of the Indigenous Environmental Studies and Science Senior Advisor, and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Program at Trent University David Ullrich is an Advisor to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Dr. Dan Longboat – Roronhiakewen (He Clears the Sky) – is an Associate where he served as executive director from 2003 to 2017. The Cities Initiative Professor in the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies, Director is a coalition of over 130 U.S. and Canadian mayors from across the Great of the Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences Program and the Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin representing over 17 million people working Director of the Indigenous Environmental Institute at Trent University in to advance the protection and restoration of the resource. The Initiative Peterborough. leads many efforts to accelerate the work to become a more sustainable region by integrating the environmental, economic, and social activities to Dr. Longboat belongs to the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation and is a improve the quality of life and well being of its people. citizen of the Haudenosaunee, originally from Ohsweken the Six Nations community on the Grand River Territory. Prior to working with the Cities Initiative, Mr. Ullrich served for thirty years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes regional office in Chicago, working on environmental Dr. Longboat earned a Bachelors Degree from Trent University in Native Studies with a special issues in the six states of the upper Midwest. He worked in many capacities over the years, including interest in Human Psychology. He received a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies and a Ph.D. in Acting Regional Administrator, Deputy Regional Administrator, Waste Management Division Director, Environmental Studies from York University. Deputy Regional Counsel, Air Enforcement Chief, and Water Enforcement Attorney. He was a founding member and chair of the Midwest Natural Resources Group. He currently serves as US Chair of the Dr. Longboat is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies and is the Great Lakes Water Quality Board for the International Joint Commission, Chair of the Great Lakes Founding Director of the Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences Program (IESS) at Trent Advisory Board, and in 2006 and 2012 was appointed by the President to the Great Lakes Fishery University and the current Director of the newly formed Indigenous Environmental Institute (IEI). The Commission. He serves on a number of other boards and committees. In 1986, he completed a six- IESS program is the first and only accredited university level program for Indigenous Environmental month executive exchange assignment with the German Interior Ministry. U.S. EPA recognized Mr. Studies and Sciences in North America. The Program is founded upon Indigenous Knowledge(s), which Ullrich for a number of his accomplishments during his public service career. serves to support research and development of culturally based courses and integrated environmental science programs. The Program focuses upon Indigenous Peoples: health and the environment, traditional foods and medicines, natural resource restoration, community sustainability, international Indigenous networks, Indigenous languages, cultures and the recognition of Treaty Rights, cultural practices and traditional life ways. Gala Banquet · Wednesday, November 14, 2018 The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell Lieutenant Governor of

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell was invested as Ontario’s 29th Lieutenant Governor on September 23, 2014. Her eclectic public service career has spanned provincial, federal, and international borders, and has transcended disciplinary and sectoral lines.

Ms. Dowdeswell began her professional career as a teacher and university lecturer. After serving as the Deputy Minister of Culture and Youth for the Government of Saskatchewan, she held increasingly senior positions in the Canadian public service, most notably as head of the Atmospheric Environment Service. Throughout this period, she managed several public inquiries and royal commissions.

Her international negotiating experiences prefaced her election in 1992 as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Upon returning to in 1998, she established an international consulting practice and became the founding President and CEO of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. Immediately prior to her appointment as Lieutenant Governor, Ms. Dowdeswell was the President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies. She has also served on numerous boards of corporate and non-profit organizations.

Ms. Dowdeswell was born in Northern Ireland and immigrated to rural Saskatchewan with her parents in 1947. She earned a Bachelor of Science in home economics and teaching certificate from the University of Saskatchewan (1966) and a Master of Science in behavioural sciences from Utah State University (1972). An Officer of the Order of Canada, Ms. Dowdeswell holds 11 honorary degrees.

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Breakfast · Thursday, November 15, 2018 Lunch · Thursday, November 15, 2018 Cher Jones Autumn Peltier Social Media Trainer & Personal Branding Coach Water Advocate

Cher Jones is a Social Media Trainer & Personal Brand Strategist with the love Autumn has been advocating for “sacred water” for the last couple of years. of technology hardwired into her personality. She leverages over 18 years of She attended the Children’s Climate Conference in Sodertalje, Sweden, PR, marketing and broadcasting experience and has worked internationally where she delivered her message about the importance of clean drinking with a wide variety of organizations including the City Of Toronto, Hong water. The Assembly of First Nations Youth Council passed a resolution Kong Police, PokerStars, Meeting Professionals International, Canadian supporting Autumn’s advocacy with the creation of a fund to assist Decorators’ Association, The UK Trade and Investment, Emirates Steel First Nations people across Canada dealing with water crises. Her work (UAE), The Ontario Ministry of Education and CBC. continues with talks and presentations to young people and First Nations communities across her territories. She hopes to finish school, travel and Cher is dedicated to helping professionals develop S.M.A.R.T. personal brands study law and political science so that she can advocate for her people at a that drive results. She`s regularly invited to speak at conferences, schools, and higher level in the future. industry events. Her passion knowledge and expertise have many people referring to her as one of Canada’s top personal branding experts. As a corporate trainer, she helps companies remain relevant In Autumn’s words – “We wouldn’t be able to live without water. Nothing would.” and competitive with useful social media training that means business.

Dr. Robin Kimmerer Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Dr. Kimmerer is a mother, plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. She is the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. Of European and Anishinaabe ancestry, Robin is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her research interests include the role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecological restoration. In collaboration with tribal partners, she and her students have an active research program in the ecology and restoration of plants of cultural significance to Native people. She is active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science education for Native students, and to create new models for integration of indigenous philosophy and scientific tools on behalf of land and culture. She is engaged in programs which introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community, in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge. Dr. Kimmerer has taught courses in botany, ecology, ethnobotany and indigenous environmental issues. She is the co-founder and past president of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge section of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Kimmerer serves as a Senior Fellow for the Center for Nature and Humans. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. Dr. Kimmerer is the author of numerous scientific papers on the ecology of mosses and restoration ecology and on the contributions of traditional ecological knowledge to our understanding of the natural world. She is also active in literary biology. Her essays appear in Whole Terrain, Adirondack Life, Orion and several anthologies. She is the author of “Gathering Moss” which incorporates both traditional indigenous knowledge and scientific perspectives and was awarded the prestigious John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing. Her latest book “Braiding Sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants” which was awarded the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award.

She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.

3 4 DAY ONE TUESDAY • November 13, 2018

Green Infrastructure, Municipal and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Stewardship Tools and Environmental Biodiversity and Tours Technologies Relationships T1A ROOM 7 T1B ROOM 8 T1C ROOM 9 T1D ROOM 11 T1E ROOM 1 T1F ROOM 2 T1G/T2G LOBBY

Shoreline Hazards – Managing Risks Keeping Cool - Hot Research on Lunaapeew and Messingw Leading Stormwater Retrofit Municipal Great Lakes Case Studies in Candidate Offsite Walk | Forest Therapy Thermal Mitigation the Way Implementation: from Initiatives Protected Areas and OECMs - Take a Walk in the Woods The shorelines of the Great Lakes Planning to Execution are popular with home owners, Mitigating stormwater’s thermal Delaware Nation’s grassroots This session will explore Provincial and federal Please note this walk businesses, sun seekers, and impacts is essential to protecting cool- organization, Meesingw, is leading the From the city-scale to the different approaches to governments are working takes place from 8:30 AM - recreational sports enthusiasts. and cold-water streams in a warming way in stewardship in southwestern site level, this session will resolving issues related to to reach a 17% target for 11:45 AM However, shorelines are subject to climate. Join this session to learn why Ontario. Learn about this unique First explore how we plan and through a case protected areas. This session This offsite walk provides the natural forces and hazards - including some approaches work and some Nations organization, their vision, prioritize SWM retrofits, and study and a collaborative explores how different background introduction to dynamic beaches, flooding and don’t. and how they are engaging their what project planning and approach to link efforts on governance models, habitats, Forest Therapy Walks and will erosion. This session will present case community and partners. implementation looks like at land to improvements within and conservation measures allow participants to get out studies on addressing natural hazards both scales. the lake. might contribute toward that of their heads and into their in these changeable areas. target. Mitigation of Stormwater Pond senses by being immersed in Thermal Impacts on Streams: Lunaapeew and Messingw Leading a natural setting. Insights from Performance the Way Siting Urban LID Retrofit The Use of an Objectives 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM Addressing the Hazards at Port Monitoring of over 45 Thermal Samantha Whiteye Opportunities and Based Evaluation Assessing Protected Areas Darlington Mitigation Projects in Ontario (Meesingw Inc.) Evaluating Their Costs and Framework to Achieve and Other Effective Area Walk Group Leaders Fiona Duckett Tim Van Seters Benefits Sustainable Project Planning – Based Conservation Kristie Virgoe (WF Baird & Associates) (Toronto and Region Conservation Olivia Sparrow in a Complex Environment Measures in Ontario (Kawartha Conservation) and Judy Sullivan Authority) (Emmons & Olivier Resources, Anneliese Grieve Laura Bjorgan and Anurani and Stana Luxford Oddie (Aqua Solutions 5) Inc.) (Strategic Environmental Persaud (Cataraqui Region Planning Solutions) (Ministry of Natural Resources How Cool Are Cooling Trenches? Conservation Authority) and Katherine Hills and Forestry) Lakeview Waterfront Connection Cooling Trench Monitoring in KW Glendale Public School (Toronto and Region Jane Graham Trevor Fraser Retrofit: Leveraging Conservation Authority) (Shoreplan Engineering Limited) (Stantec) Partnerships to Implement 17% Along the Great Lakes: Green Infrastructure It’s Complicated Graeme MacDonald TRCA, York and Durham – Jocelyn Sherwood (Credit Valley Conservation) Nearshore Monitoring at the (Canadian Wildlife Service) and Shelly Dunn Duffin Creek Plant (Fisheries and Oceans Barry Laverick Guardians of the Canada) (Regional Municipality of Biodiversity: The Role of Durham) Conservation Authorities in Achieving 17% Deanna Cheriton (Toronto and Region Conservation Authority)

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Green Infrastructure, Municipal and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Stewardship Tools and Environmental Biodiversity and Tours Technologies Relationships T2A ROOM 7 T2B ROOM 8 T2C ROOM 9 T2D ROOM 11 T2E ROOM 1 T2F ROOM 2 T1G/T2G LOBBY

Linking Water Governance in the Green Infrastructure - Where the Envisioning a Shared Waters Smart Tech and AI: Neighbourhood Protecting and Managing Offsite Walk | Forest Therapy to Economic, Permeable Paving Hits the Road Approach: CA Perspective on Advances in Water Quality Environmental Shoreline Biodiversity - Take a Walk in the Woods Social and Political Drivers Collaboration to Conserve Our Management Enhancement and [Continued] Mainstreaming LID implementation Shared Watershed Resources Rehabilitation Join us to learn about Water governance is strongly takes innovation in policies, Agent Models, algae and big different inventory, research Please note this walk influenced by sectors including demonstration projects, performance Looking to the future, beyond just data: complex issues require Empowering communities and conservation efforts to takes place from 8:30 AM - energy, trade, and finance but most monitoring, and informed decision form and function, our presenters will innovative solutions. Join us to address urban related describe, understand and 11:45 AM governance systems are not designed making. Come hear how the yardstick discuss the innovative approaches as we explore a few. environmental challenges conserve shoreline habitats This offsite walk provides the to deal with these influences. is being advanced. and strategies in their respective to achieve neighbourhood- along the Great Lakes and background introduction to Through this panel the audience will watersheds aimed at improving the based solutions. smaller watercourses. Forest Therapy Walks and will be engaged in a discussion of key ecological condition of the river and allow participants to get out external actors and drivers that are downstream lakes, and also provide Health and Well-Being of their heads and into their relevant to the topics of flooding, Focusing on Solutions: Kitchener’s significant long-term benefit to our Outcomes of Conservation senses by being immersed in nutrient pollution, and agriculture in Advancement In Integrated river systems. Scenarios in the Credit River Neighbourhood Screening Great Lakes Shoreline a natural setting. the Great Lakes Basin. Stormwater Management Watershed: An Agent-Based Process and SNAP Model: Ecosystem (GLSE) Inventory 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Matt Wilson Modelling Approach Maximizing Co-Benefits of and Monitoring Project (City of Kitchener) Martin Bunch Infrastructure Renewal and Katie Howard (Holman) Working Towards A Shared Waters (York University) Climate Action (Ministry of Natural Resources Why Do We Need to Rethink Water Approach for the Deshkan Ziibi Shannon Logan and Forestry) Lessons Learned so Far: Green Governance in the Great Lakes (Thames River) (Toronto and Region Streets Demonstration Project at the Automatic Detection of Basin? Tara Tchir Conservation Authority) City of Toronto Algae Using a Custom-built Nottawasaga Bay Shoreline Rob de Loë (Upper Thames River Conservation Geoff Cole Microscope Powered by Biodiversity (University of Waterloo) Authority) (City of Toronto) Artificial Intelligence Fletchers Creek SNAP in Michael Wynia Jason Deglint Brampton: A Case Study (Skelton, Brumwell & Discourse on Nutrients in Reaching Consensus for Our Shared (University of Waterloo) Andrew Kett Associates Inc.) Real-Time LID Performance Basin: A Comparative Analysis Watercourses (Credit Valley Conservation) @SkeltonBrumwell Monitoring Using Continuous Bereket Negasi Isaac Mark Hartley Turbidity Probes: Elm Drive Case Pooling Resources: (University of Waterloo) (Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Study Optimizing Monitoring RAIN Smart Authority) Jan Siwierski Efforts and Data Sharing in Neighbourhoods: A Linking Flood Risk Management, (Credit Valley Conservation) Ontario and Across Canada Municipal Framework for Economic, Social and Political Stephen Elgie Engaging the Community to Drivers to the Status of the Great (KISTERS North America, Inc.) Increase Uptake of Lot-Level Lakes Basin Green Infrastructure Parastoo Emami Patrick Gilbride (University of Waterloo) (REEP Green Solutions)

Corporate Water Stewardship and Water Governance Fabiola Alvarado-Revilla (University of Waterloo)

Drivers at Multiple Scales in the Lake Erie Basin: Implications for Governance Erin Murphy-Mills (University of Waterloo)

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Green Infrastructure, Municipal and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Stewardship Tools and Environmental Biodiversity and Tours Technologies Relationships T3A ROOM 7 T3B ROOM 8 T3C ROOM 9 T3D ROOM 11 T3E ROOM 1 T3F ROOM 2 T3G/T4G ROOM 18

Great Lakes Levels - Part 1 New Old Dog on the Block - Green Innovative First Nations What Does It Take? Watershed Planning: Community-based Workshop | Wampum Belts Infrastructure and the Drainage Act Environmental Stewardship Model Construction and Lifecycle Indigenous Approaches and Management of Invasives Related to Anishinaabe Very high spring rainfall across the Costs of LID Engagement History Great Lakes basin in 2017 resulted in Why reinvent the wheel? Join us in Using a unique, transferable See how education, higher than usual levels in all of the exploring how the Drainage Act can stewardship model, Henvey Inlet Knowing the costs of LID Explore how Indigenous monitoring and management Please note this workshop lakes and record setting levels in Lake facilitate green infrastructure retrofits First Nation has developed an are important to making community - initiated of priority invasives can be takes place from 1:45 PM - Ontario. This session brings together on private lands in both urban and environmental stewardship regime infrastructure decisions. watershed planning as well done at the community level 5:00 PM water managers at the federal and rural areas. and associated permitting process to Information on this topic has as indigenous involvement to reduce the impact of Brian Charles is an off- watershed scale to explain factors implement and monitor renewable been collected and tracked in municipal watershed invasive species throughout reserve Band member of affecting high water levels, provide energy projects on their lands. for several projects, and our planning can both contribute Ontario. the Chippewas of Georgina a historical overview, and showcase experts are ready to share. to positive ecological Island and has worked how Conservation Authorities are The New Old Dog on the Block: Use outcomes and community collaboratively with a small addressing high levels through of the Drainage Act to Facilitate capacity building. group of knowledge keepers shoreline flood hazard and risk Green Infrastructure Implementation Innovative First Nations Severn Sound 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM to research and assemble assessment. in Urban Areas Environmental Stewardship Model Informing Asset Environmental Association’s Kyle Vander Linden and Shannon Kyle Hunt Management: Importance Invasive Species Program: A a physical repository Malloy (Savanta Inc. / Henvey Inlet First of Tracking Inspections and Indigenous Approaches and Multi-municipality Approach of wampum belts that (Credit Valley Conservation) Nation) Maintenance Engagement in Watershed Robert Canning document Ojibwa history. The Great Lakes Water Levels – How and Patrick Brennan Jordan Wiedrick Planning (Severn Sound Environmental presentation will illuminate They Work (Henvey Inlet First Nation) (Credit Valley Conservation) Gary Pritchard Association) how wampum was used to The Drainage Act: A Useful Tool in Derrick Beach (Cambium Aboriginal / Curve @SSEA_SSRAP record not only relationships Protecting and Maintaining Rural (Environment and Climate Change Lake First Nation) and treaties between the Green Infrastructure LID Right-of-Way Examples Canada) First Peoples of the Eastern Sarah Fleischhauer from City of Kitchener: Lake Association Fighting Woodland, but also with (Maitland Valley Conservation Design, Monitoring, and Aquatic Invasive Species at settler societies in Canada. CA/Municipal Partnership in Flood Authority) Cost the Local Level Emergency Preparedness – Lake Matt Wilson Deanna Panitz Erie Shoreline (City of Kitchener) (Federation of Ontario Janet Engel Cottagers’ Associations) Brian Charles (Grand River Conservation Authority) @foca_info (Educator)

Lake Ontario 2017: Assessing Management of Wild Warning Thresholds & Flood Risk Parsnip Using Different Along the Shoreline Chemical and non-Chemical Rebecca Elliott and Nathan Plato Tools (Toronto and Region Conservation Smiling Water (Mackenzie Authority) Lespérance) (Nawash First Nation / rare Charitable Research Reserve)

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Green Infrastructure, Municipal and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Stewardship Tools and Environmental Biodiversity and Tours Technologies Relationships T4A ROOM 7 T4B ROOM 8 T4C ROOM 9 T4D ROOM 11 T4E ROOM 1 T4F ROOM 2 T3G/T4G ROOM 18

Great Lakes Levels - Part 2 Policy Scrum - Improving Land and Stewardship through Collaboration Stormwater Evolved: Municipal Naturalization and Management of Aquatic Workshop | Wampum Belts Water Management Guidance and Tools to Greening Invasives in Ontario Related to Anishinaabe Very high spring rainfall across the Collaboration is crucial for many Offset Urban Impacts History [Continued] Great Lakes basin in 2017 resulted Despite a wave of recent provincial stewardship projects. How do you This interactive session Aquatic invasive species in higher than usual levels in all the land and water policy work, there’s prioritize projects, establish new Ontario’s stormwater highlights the outcome rapidly move through the Please note this workshop lakes and record setting levels in Lake still room – and appetite – for partnerships and break down barriers landscape is changing. of municipalities working landscape; hear updates on takes place from 1:45 PM - Ontario. This session will explore the improvement. Join us for insights to find innovative solutions for From runoff volume control with a professional industry control efforts underway for 5:00 PM need for an adaptive water resources on gaps, needs, engagement, and conservation? targets to other guidance, this association to achieve overall European water chestnut, Brian Charles is an off- management approach to address solutions. session will highlight critical environmental benefits to water soldier and phragmites. reserve Band member of current climatic variability and future aspects and useful tools landscape projects. Learn the Chippewas of Georgina challenges relating to climate change. available to help us navigate first-hand the challenges, Island and has worked The Long Point Walsingham Forest a stormwater-wise future. benefits and rewards of collaboratively with a small Regulating Water Contaminants in Integrated Conservation Action Plan: creating landscapes that Control of European Water group of knowledge keepers Ontario Enhancing Conservation Outcomes meet client needs while also Chestnut in Lake Ontario to research and assemble 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Great Lakes Water Levels: Where Geoff Yunker through Collective Impact enhancing the environment. and the St. Lawrence River Are They Going? (Environmental Commissioner of Britney MacLeod Update on the Low Impact Kyle Borrowman a physical repository Frank Seglenieks Ontario) (Canadian Wildlife Service) Development Stormwater (Ducks Unlimited Canada) of wampum belts that (Environment and Climate Change Management Guidance document Ojibwa history. The Canada) Manual Driving Market presentation will illuminate The Untapped Potential of Municipal Habitat Enhancement in the Control of European Water John Antoszek Transformation: The Fusion how wampum was used to Water Sustainability Plans Otonabee Region Watershed Soldier in the Trent Severn (Ministry of the Environment, Landscape Professional record not only relationships Adaptive Management and Great Anastasia Lintner and Theresa through Community Engagement Waterway Conservation and Parks) Program and treaties between the Lakes Water Levels McClenaghan Meredith Carter Robert McGowan Jeremy Harris First Peoples of the Eastern Wendy Leger (Canadian Environmental Law (Otonabee Conservation) (Ontario Federation of (Region of Peel), Woodland, but also with (Environment and Climate Change Association) The Evolution of the Low Anglers and Hunters) Julie McManus settler societies in Canada. Canada) Impact Development First Nations Fisheries Management (Credit Valley Conservation) Stormwater Management Voices from across the Landscape within the Great Lakes and Corena Cane Phragmites Australis Control Planning and Design Guide Shoreline Management on Lake Erie Andrew McCammon Nicolas Brunet and Kelsey Beaton (Regional Municipality of York) in a Lake Erie Coastal Marsh Jenny Hill Peter Zuzek (Ontario Headwaters Institute) (University of Guelph) Rebecca Rooney (Toronto and Region (Zuzek Inc.) (University of Waterloo) Conservation Authority) and Mark Peacock @urbanhydroeco (Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority) Determine Sizing and Placement of LIDs to Meet SWM Design Criteria Using the LID Treatment Train Tool v2.0 Yuestas David (Toronto and Region Conservation Authority)

11 12 DAY TWO WEDNESDAY • November 14, 2018

Green Infrastructure, Municipal and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Stewardship Tools and Environmental Biodiversity and Tours Technologies Relationships W1A ROOM 7 W1B ROOM 8 W1C ROOM 9 W1D ROOM 11 W1E ROOM 1 W1F ROOM 2 W1G/W2G LOBBY

Nutrient Loading from Agricultural Great Lakes Areas of Concern The Meadoway: Community Using Green Infrastructure Municipal Low Impact Techniques in Automated Offsite Walk | Forest Therapy Headwaters Powered Greenspaces to Protect Habitat in Close Development (LID) Initiatives Data Collection - Take a Walk in the Woods Progress on cleaning up the Proximity to Development This session will explore patterns Great Lakes - join us to learn what The Meadoway will showcase a new Projects Municipalities have been Automating biodiversity Please note this walk in nutrient export from agricultural monitoring programs are telling us reality for environmental collaboration, leaders in not only supporting data collection can generate takes place from 8:30 AM - headwater catchments in southern about the health of former and current and will redefine the meaning of How can habitats and water the concept of LID for a number of benefits for 11:45 AM Ontario. Presentations will highlight Areas of Concern. a community connected through balances be protected in the stormwater management but conservation projects. Learn This offsite walk provides the trends in the seasonal timing, conservation. face of development? Join us have led by example through about how technology such background introduction to magnitude and transformation of to see how GI is being used projects they have initiated. as apps and Lidar are being Forest Therapy Walks and will nutrients important for Great Lakes to do exactly that! Some of these initiatives are used to collect data and allow participants to get out Ecosystem Health. Trends in Water Quality of Tributaries presented in this session. make conservation projects of their heads and into their Entering Marsh, The Meadoway: Community easier. Hamilton Powered Greenspaces senses by being immersed in Stacey Van Opstal and Christopher Arlen Leeming Preserving Urban Wetland a natural setting. The Multi-Watershed Nutrient Study: Polap (Toronto and Region Conservation Water Balances Using LIDs Collaborating LID 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM Assessing the Scope for Change in (Hamilton Conservation Authority) Authority) and Hydrologic Modelling Implementation and Red Squirrel: Automated Agricultural Nutrient Loading Ellen Hachborn Monitoring on Central Collection and Analysis of Walk Group Leaders Ryan Sorichetti (Dillon Consulting) Parkway East Mississauga Biodiversity Data Long Term Trophic Trends – A Look Kristie Virgoe (University of Waterloo) Stephanie Wilson Tom Hilditch and Eva Lee at 45 Years of Monitoring in Severn (Kawartha Conservation) (Credit Valley Conservation) (Savanta Inc.) Sound Gordie Howe International and Stana Luxford Oddie and Scott Perry Phosphorus Export from Headwater Aisha Chiandet Bridge: Offsetting (Cataraqui Region (City of Mississauga) Streams in the Thames and Ausable (Severn Sound Environmental Techniques for Protection of Using Lidar to Detect Conservation Authority) River Watersheds: Storms, Snowmelt Association) Fish and Fish Habitat in the Potential Vernal Pools and Speciation Municipal Initiatives to and Low/Wet Areas for Chris Parsons Lindsay Bennett Improve Stormwater Restoration (University of Waterloo) (Windsor-Detroit Bridge Discharges to the Great Chris Menary Authority) Lakes (Toronto and Region Kelly Vader Conservation Authority) Modeling Phosphorus Loading in (B. M. Ross and Associates Headwater Agricultural Catchments Limited) Across : the Importance of an Integrated Approach Chris Wellen (Ryerson University)

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Green Infrastructure, Municipal and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Stewardship Tools and Environmental Biodiversity and Tours Technologies Relationships W2A ROOM­ 7 W2B ROOM 8 W2C ROOM 9 W2D ROOM 1 W2E ROOM 2 W2F ROOM 11 W1G/W2G LOBBY

Western Lake Ontario Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring: Protecting Important Properties Using Innovative Municipal Environmental Environmental DNA as a Offsite Walk | Forest Therapy From Rivers to Great Lakes Owned by Americans – Lessons Constructed Wetland Enhancement and New Tool for Biomonitoring - Take a Walk in the Woods Ongoing collaborative science and from the Thousand Islands Technologies to Manage Rehabilitation [Continued] monitoring in the nearshore of the Increasingly, monitoring programs Watershed Nutrient Pollutants This session will help Great Lakes help us understand how are using real-time and continuous Different municipalities have practitioners understand what Please note this walk the land and the Great Lakes are data collection to inform management The American Friends of Canadian Floating islands, vertical been engaged in innovative environmental DNA is, when takes place from 8:30 AM - connected. This session will provide decisions. Join us to hear applications Land Trusts will present lessons wetlands and red sand; approaches to environmental eDNA-based biomonitoring 11:45 AM an overview of how Ontario’s most ranging from estimating contaminant learned, introduce tools available and enhanced water treatment enhancement, rehabilitation may be useful and how to This offsite walk provides the urbanized and rapidly growing area is loading to protecting drinking water. discuss one landowners motivations technologies offer an and restoration and various employ such tools according background introduction to impacting the western basin of Lake in regard to how conservation lands opportunity to super-charge examples of these are to emerging best practices. Forest Therapy Walks and will Ontario. in Canada, owned by Americans, can the water quality benefits of presented through this allow participants to get out be secured by tapping into US tax living green infrastructure session. of their heads and into their Real-Time Instream Water Quality benefits. systems. Monitoring An Introduction to eDNA senses by being immersed in Land to Lake Connections in Lorna Murison and Amanjot Singh and Its Detection a natural setting.

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Western Lake Ontario (Credit Valley Conservation) The Great Lakes and Robert Hanner Shari Dahmer Floating Treatment Municipal Environmental (University of Guelph) Sandra Tassel (Toronto and Region Conservation Wetlands-a Simple yet Projects Development of Surrogate Measures (American Friends of Canadian Land Authority) Effective Tool for Enhanced Jim Wren for TP Loading from the Grand River Trusts) Field Detection of Blanding’s Stormwater Treatment (Federation of Canadian Using Continuous Water Quality Turtle eDNA in Winter John Ross Josh Clark Municipalities) Legacy and Emerging Contaminants, Data Scott Tarof (Charleston Lake Landowner) (Terrapin Water) Plastics and the Alphabet Soup of Cameron Irvine (Azimuth Consulting) Urban Waters (Grand River Conservation Authority) Marnie Ross A Blue Print for on-the- Paul Helm (Thousand Islands Watershed Land Stormwater Treatment with Ground Action – York Sampling Considerations for (Ministry of the Environment, Trust) Iron Enhanced Sand Filter Region’s Greening Strategy Real-time Lake Water Quality eDNA-based Biomonitoring Conservation and Parks) – Design, Construction, Heidi Breen Monitoring for Protecting the Region Kristen Callow Chris Wilson Monitoring and Maintenance (The Regional Municipality of Peel’s Drinking Water (Ontario Land Trust Alliance) (Ministry of Natural Resources Jay Michels of York) Jeff Hennings and Forestry) (Emmons & Olivier Resources) (Region of Peel) Walking the Talk – York Region’s Property Naturalization Program Kyle Heeley (The Regional Municipality of York)

15 16 DAY TWO WEDNESDAY • November 14, 2018

Green Infrastructure, Municipal and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Stewardship Tools and Environmental Biodiversity and Tours Technologies Relationships W3A ROOM 7 W3B ROOM 8 W3C ROOM 9 W3D ROOM 11 W3E ROOM 1 W3F ROOM 2 W3G/W4G LOBBY

Plastic Pollution in the Great Lakes Anticipating Floods - a Moving Building on Years of Partnership - Roots to Shoots: Quantifying Municipal Subwatershed Protecting and Restoring Tour | Headwaters to Target Unique Ideas for Stewardship in a and Sustaining the Planning Ontario’s Wetlands Experiential Many Ontarians have heard about Challenging World Performance of Living Tour plastic debris, including microplastics Southwestern Ontario has been hit Infrastructure Examples of how This session will examine the in the world’s oceans but may not by two extreme rainfall events in Since 2010, a multi-agency/ subwatershed scale planning current causes of wetland Please note this tour takes realize that plastic pollution exists in less than 11 months that resulted in stakeholder group has coordinated New local data on urban tree is being undertaken in two loss in Ontario and some place from 1:15 PM - 4:30 PM waters closer to home. The increasing significant surface and basement actions to protect and improve water vitality shows the benefits of different jurisdictions with of the efforts underway to Join NVCA staff for a guided amount of microplastics - and plastic flooding. This session will explore quality along the southeast shores using trees for SWM. Find out particular emphasis on protect and restore them, tour through the Nottawasaga pollution - is a growing and significant changes in the hydrology of southern of . It’s 2018. Funding? what it takes to sustain urban stormwater management in including wetland restoration Valley watershed. Among concern in the Great Lakes and Ontario, including challenges related Difficult to secure. Resources? street trees for the long-haul. areas planned for increased and stewardship in First the highlights, you’ll see St. Lawrence River. to urban flooding and possibilities for Strained. How do we continue to keep population growth. Nation communities in firsthand stewardship and municipal response. stewardship efforts moving forward the Lake Erie basin and a conservation initiatives in in the eye of the storm? This panel climate change vulnerability the internationally significant session will highlight our unique and Smart Phones and Soil Cells assessment of Great Lakes 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Minesing Wetlands, and Microplastics in the Great Lakes: innovative efforts working in the Lake Jenny Hill Progressive Water coastal wetlands. urban trout stream restoration Sources to Lake Ontario Urban Development: A Tipping Point Huron basin for the next two years. (Toronto and Region Management Strategies in Paul Helm for Summer Floods in Southern Conservation Authority) Support of a Progressive and invasive species control (Ministry of the Environment, Ontario @urbanhydroeco Planning Process along the Georgian Bay Conservation and Parks) Trevor Dickinson Arun Hindupur Southern Ontario’s shoreline in Collingwood. (University of Guelph) (City of Guelph) Disappearing Wetlands Jacqui Empson Laporte Improving and Sustaining and Ron Scheckenberger Larissa Sage What Is a Shoreline? The Impact of (Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food the Performance of Living (Wood plc) (Environmental Commissioner Citizen Science Based Cleanups in What Southwestern Ontario and Rural Affairs) Green Infrastructure of Ontario) Fred Dobbs the Great Lakes Municipalities Are Doing To Chris Morrison Tori Waugh (Nottawasaga Valley Susan Debreceni “Weather the Storm” (StormWaterForestry) Subwatershed-wide (Saugeen Valley Conservation Conservation Authority) (Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup) Ryan Langlois and Ian Wilson Planning for LIDs: MECP Collaborating and Authority) (Dillon Consulting) Environmental Compliance Supporting First Nation Heather Kepran Sarah Fleischhauer Approval Pilot Project Communities to Advance (Nottawasaga Valley (Maitland Valley Conservation Shawna Chambers Wetland Conservation Conservation Authority) Authority) (City of London) Sean Rootham and Sabrina Ternier (Ducks Unlimited Canada) (Ministry of the Environment, and Jo Boyer Conservation and Parks) (Chippewas of the Thames)

Assessing and Enhancing the Resilience of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Deborah Silver (Environment and Climate Change Canada)

17 18 DAY TWO WEDNESDAY • November 14, 2018

Green Infrastructure, Municipal and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Stewardship Tools and Environmental Biodiversity and Tours Technologies Relationships W4A ROOM 7 W4B ROOM 8 W4C ROOM 9 W4D ROOM 11 W4E ROOM 1 W4F ROOM 2 W3G/W4G LOBBY

Hold the Salt: Rising Chloride Levels Source Water Protection - Next Conservation and Stewardship Catching the (Flood) Wave: Private and Public Water Practical Issues in Managing Tour | Headwaters to in Ontario’s Waterbodies Steps and New Applications through Policy Using LID for Quantity Infrastructure Management Species at Risk Georgian Bay Experiential Control Tour [Continued] Rising chloride concentrations are a Join us to hear what’s new in This session will highlight success Challenges related to private Join us to learn about concern across the Great Lakes basin, Source Water – program updates, stories and innovative ways to get Flood control using LID is the wells and septic systems are novel, practical solutions Please note this tour takes largely due to salt used in winter advancements in water budget government to take action, covering final frontier in decentralized explored in this session. Hear that are showing success place from 1:15 PM - 4:30 PM maintenance, however a projected studies, and how to use source how to best submit public comments, stormwater management. about current management at managing species at risk Join NVCA staff for a guided salt shortage this winter may provide protection tools to support decision- plus ask for changes to policies or This session will highlight key approaches, constraints and in Ontario, including barn tour through the Nottawasaga an opportunity to promote change. making in other areas. get enforcement action. The session considerations and show how opportunities for long term swallows and snapping Valley watershed. Among This session will provide an overview will then outline an example of the it is already being done. improvement. turtles. the highlights, you’ll see of the problem and some solutions challenges of implementing long- firsthand stewardship and currently being tested. term conservation plans as policies conservation initiatives in Protecting Sources of Drinking change. Water: Updates under the Clean LID and Quantity Control Building a Better Bird House the internationally significant

3:15 PM – 4:45 PM James Johnson and John Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Imtiaz Shah - Case Study of Successful Minesing Wetlands, and FitzGibbon Increasing Chloride Trends in Act (Upper Thames River Barn Swallow Nesting urban trout stream restoration (University of Guelph) Ontario Surface Waters Jennifer Moulton Want to Make the Government Do Conservation Authority) Structures and invasive species control Ryan Sorichetti (Ministry of the Environment, Something? Successful Ways to Chris Parent and Meredith along the Georgian Bay (Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks) Use Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Meeker shoreline in Collingwood. Greening the Infrastructure Taylor West and Cameron Conservation and Parks) Rights (Cole Engineering) Pilot: Testing Cupolex Tiles Curran Christopher Wilkinson and Michelle Water Budgets – Learning More and Porous Tiles to Manage (University of Guelph) Kassel How Can Environmental about the Sustainability of Our Flooding in Storm Sewer Why Did the Salamander (Environmental Commissioner of Professionals Engage Salt Appliers? Municipal Drinking Water Sources Systems Cross the Road? The King Ontario) Promoting Change in a Time of Martin Keller Kristina Hausmanis and Abe Brandon Eidner and Taylor Road Closure in Burlington Reduced Salt Availability (Grand River Conservation Authority) Mouaket West Brenda Van Ryswyk Bill Thompson The Conundrum of the Rouge (City of Toronto) (University of Guelph) (Conservation Halton) ( Region Conservation Watershed Protection Area Making the Most of Source Water Authority) Katharine Richter Protection Modeling Results Peak Flow Reduction and Re-establishing a Lost (Natural Resource Solutions Inc.) Godofredo Carpio Flood Protection: Cooksville Ecosystem of Southern Smart about Salt Training and Best (Central Lake Ontario Conservation Creek Underground Storage Ontario – Recovery of Practices Available in Parking Lot Authority) System Kirtland’s Warbler Maintenance Vivek Sharma Peter Burke and Laura Eric Hodgins (ADS Canada) Williamson (Regional Municipality of Waterloo / and Mark Bassingthwaite (Savanta Inc.) Smart About Salt Council) (Resilient Consulting)

Designing Parking Lots with Winter Maintenance in Mind: Setting Ourselves up for Success from Day One Pamela Strong (Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority)

19 20 DAY THREE THURSDAY • November 15, 2018

Communications and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Lands Climate Change Outreach Biodiversity and Tours

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Lake and Shoreline Management Case Study in Watershed It All Starts with Healthy Soil Climate Change Adaptation Sharing the Science: Talking Strengthening Conservation Offsite Walk | Forest Therapy Plans Management: Credit River and Resilience in the Great Tech with Diverse Audiences Easement Agreements for - Take a Walk in the Woods Soil health impacts the effectiveness Lakes Securement There are a number of plans that Learn how the Credit River is of all other stewardship programs. Learn from successful Please note this walk aim to protect and restore the responding to land use change, how Poor soil health is a challenge for Members of the International projects on how to develop Conservation easement takes place from 9:00 AM - Great Lakes and its shorelines. This monitoring and analysis are weeding urban forestry, Green infrastructure, Joint Commission’s Great meaningful messaging and agreements (CEA) are a 12:15 PM session will provide an overview of out “Fake News”, and how to use water management and climate Lakes Water Quality Board use multiple tools to report on tool to conserve land. How This offsite walk provides the recent initiatives, including binational this information to trigger adaptive change adaptation and mitigation. will host a discussion complex topics in the Great do you draft a CEA that is background introduction to Lakewide Action and Management management. However, there are several initiatives and seek input on their Lakes watershed. flexible yet strong enough to Forest Therapy Walks and will Plans and conservation authority designed to make fundamental recent efforts and resulting withstand legal challenges? allow participants to get out shoreline management plans. improvements for Ontario soils! recommendation that a Join this workshop to find of their heads and into their binational approach to out, and to hear an update on senses by being immersed in Weeding out the Fake News on climate change adaptation Communicating Great Lakes Ontario Land Trust Alliance’s a natural setting. Stream and Groundwater Quality and resilience in the Great Science Using Indicators project to strengthen CEAs in Lake Huron and Trends Beyond Organic Matter: Unlocking Lakes be developed for the Stacey Cherwaty-Pergentile Ontario. 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Lakewide Action and Management Kata Bavrlic and Jennifer Dougherty the Power in the Soil Microbiome region. (Environment and Climate Plans (Credit Valley Conservation) Bob Reeves Change Canada) Walk Group Leaders Rob Hyde (Root Rescue) Kristie Virgoe (Environment and Climate Change Long Term Trends in Fish and Making Messages Matter Alison Howson (Kawartha Conservation) Canada) Facilitator Aquatic Invertebrates Setting Standards for Soil for Source Water Protection (Ontario Land Trust Alliance) and Stana Luxford Oddie Barb Sweazey Phil Bird and Adrienne Ockenden Restoration and Nutrient Outreach (Cataraqui Region (Stratos Inc.) Ian C. Attridge ABCA Shoreline Management Plan (Credit Valley Conservation) Management on Urban Landscapes Doug MacMillan Conservation Authority) (Environmental Lawyer) Geoff Cade Dean Young (The Letter M Marketing) (Ausable Bayfield Conservation (Toronto and Region Conservation and Susan Jagminas What Do We Do Now? Implementing Christopher Hilkene Authority) Authority) (Lake Simcoe Region an Adaptive Management (Pollution Program) Conservation Authority) Framework Sandra Cooper Loveleen Clayton and Kata Bavrlic Down to Earth: Overcoming (Town of Collingwood) (Credit Valley Conservation) Obstacles Salvaging Topsoil for Re- Using Watershed Report Use within the Urban Environment Cards to Communicate Jaime Douglass Science to Various (J. Jenkins and Son Landscape Audiences Contractors Ltd.) Jane Lewington (Conservation Ontario)

Communicating to a Community Based Audience Michael Jacobs (Cambium Aboriginal)

21 22 DAY THREE THURSDAY • November 15, 2018

Communications and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Lands Climate Change Outreach Biodiversity and Tours

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Protecting Our Waterways Case Study in Watershed From the Field to the Consumer - Climate Change Adaptation Experiential Learning: Stream and Valley Offsite Walk | Forest Therapy through the Lake Erie Action Plan: Management: Ottawa River Managing Nutrients Wisely Planning Connecting Students to the Connectivity, Protection and - Take a Walk in the Woods Collaborative Solutions – Moving Great Lakes Restoration [Continued] from Plan to Action How do you ensure a healthy future Nutrient availability is a requirement This session will present for a watershed the size of a small for plant growth, from the home innovative government Curriculum-based experiential Learn how three different Please note this walk Collaborative effort is needed to country? Come and learn how vegetable garden to more strategies and programs to learning initiatives to promote organizations are addressing takes place from 9:00 AM - reduce phosphorus loadings to Lake governments, CAs, municipalities, and conventional cropping systems. adapt to climate change. local partnerships with watershed connectivity 12:15 PM Erie by 40 percent and help reduce a grassroots charity are collaborating However, like balancing a conservation authorities and challenges to enhance This offsite walk provides the harmful and nuisance algal blooms. on the Ottawa River. chequebook, we have to ensure opportunities for connecting habitat within their background introduction to This interactive session will discuss that the “deposits” match the high school students to the watersheds. Forest Therapy Walks and will the Canada-Ontario Lake Erie Action “withdrawals” and there are Climate Change Adaptation Great Lakes watershed. allow participants to get out Plan – how it was developed, what it unforeseen challenges that affect the Planning in Ontario: The of their heads and into their is, and how it is being implemented. The Gatineau Declaration and outstanding balance. This session will ECO’s Perspective senses by being immersed in Use your laptop or mobile device to Health Assessment of the Ottawa focus on two programs to manage Carolyn Shaw Reconnecting Canada: The a natural setting. participate in Q&A session. River Basin nutrients from two very different food (Environmental Commissioner Panel Moderator Million Mile Effort 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Meredith Brown production systems. of Ontario) Elizabeth Everhardus Kelly Mason NOTE: The panel will include (Ottawa Riverkeeper) (Ministry of the Environment, (Trout Unlimited) speakers from federal and provincial Conservation and Parks) agencies, Indigenous communities, Source Water Protection Ottawa River Watershed Study Handbook for Adapting to Fish and Wildlife Habitat municipalities, conservation Farming Sustainability with 4R Laura Cervoni Climate Change Panel: Connecting Students Connectivity at Road authorities, agriculture sector, and Nutrient Stewardship (Environment and Climate Change Glenn Milner to the Great Lakes Crossings in the Credit River environmental organizations. Anne Loeffler Canada) (Ontario Climate Consortium) Teresa Hollingsworth Watershed (Grand River Conservation Authority) and George Jacoub (Upper Thames River Erika Nardone and Dale Cowan (Ministry of the Environment, Conservation) (Credit Valley Conservation) Partnering on Freshwater and (AGRIS Co-operative Ltd.) Opening Remarks Conservation and Parks) Watersheds in Renfrew County Erin Mutch Sandra George Kathryn Lindsay (Thames Valley District Courtcliffe Park Creek (Environment and Climate Change Sustainable Solutions for Food and (Bonnechere River Watershed Project) Up North on Climate School Board) Restoration: The Role of Canada) Vegetable Processors and Packers Change @erinmutch Collaboration John Van de Vegte Dr. David Pearson Kent Rundle Common and Shared Conservation (Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food Betsy McClure Panel Moderator (Laurentian University) (Conservation Halton) Authority Issues and Rural Affairs) (Kettle Creek Conservation Madhu Malhotra John Karau Authority) (Ministry of the Environment, (Mississippi Valley Conservation @KettleCreekCA Conservation and Parks) Authority) John Mesman (South Nation Conservation) Panelists Scott Mathers Reilly Henderson (City of London) (North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority) Jo-Anne Rzadki @theNBMCA (Conservation Ontario) Bruce Kelly (Farm and Food Care) April Weppler (Freshwater Future)

23 24 DAY THREE THURSDAY • November 15, 2018

Communications and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Lands Climate Change Outreach Biodiversity and Tours

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Leamington Tributaries Priority Area First Nations Water Challenges: Measuring Results - Stories from Forestry Programs Great Lakes Guide: Managing Natural Heritage Workshop | Making It Work: – Influences of Greenhouse Effluent Actions and Options “The Field” Addressing Climate Change Web-Based Approach to Systems An Introduction to Low and Mitigation Actions Impacts Connecting People to Their Impact Development First Nations face many obstacles in Rural stewardship has focussed on Great Lakes This session will feature two The Leamington Tributaries are securing access to clean water. Join the need for multi-layer BMPs and Finding concrete strategies case studies which explore Please note this workshop identified as a priority watershed for this session to learn about partnership the strategic placement of those to mitigate and adapt to the Panel discussion to introduce how different regions are takes place from 2:00 PM - phosphorus reduction in the Great models and be inspired by actions BMPs. Demonstration projects have impacts of climate change the Great Lakes Guide, identifying, managing and 4:45 PM Lakes Water Quality Agreement. taken by youth who are teaching, been used to provide education and are increasingly important. a web-based application monitoring Natural Heritage This introductory workshop This area is made up of several small training, planting, and restoring information about the cumulative This session will focus on to connect residents to Systems, as required by will cover the essential watercourses under the influence watersheds. benefits of stewardship since before forestry programs that have their local watersheds, the 2014 Provincial Policy aspects of low impact of greenhouse effluent in the Art Latornell’s days. This session will led the way in this field. with guest speakers Statement. development, from southwestern area of Essex County focus on sites that demonstrate the from 4 environmental design considerations to where phosphorus concentrations effectiveness of strategic and multi- organizations. construction, operation, among the highest in the province. Capacity Building Gets Its Hands layer BMPs and how they are used to maintenance and 2:45 PM – 4:00 PM This session will examine the Dirty: Training First Nations Youth to educate stakeholders. Adapting Forestry Programs Closing the Gap between performance verification. Join results of water quality monitoring Achieve Environmental Results for Climate Change in the Knowledge and Action: Bill Trenouth and Kyle Vander programs as well as current actions John Millar Lake Simcoe Watershed Panel Moderator Adaptive Management of Linden for this informative, to reduce phosphorus levels in these (Water First Education and Training Phil Davies Krystyn Tully CVC’s Natural Heritage interactive session. watersheds. Inc.) Measuring the Effectiveness of (Lake Simcoe Region (Swim Drink Fish Canada) System Strategy Agricultural BMPs Using Water and Conservation Authority) @GL_Guide Yvette Roy Sediment Control Basins @swimdrinkfish (Credit Valley Conservation) Collaborative Water Arrangements Daniel Bittman @LOWaterkeeper between First Nations and Adapting to Extreme Heat in Monitoring Greenhouse and Non- (Ausable Bayfield Conservation @krystynt Bill Trenouth and Kyle Vander Municipalities in Ontario Peel Region Using an Urban Painting Grey County Green Greenhouse Influenced Streams in Authority) Linden Sheri Longboat Forestry Approach - Natural Heritage System the Leamington Tributaries Priority (Credit Valley Conservation) (University of Guelph) Jacqueline Hamilton Panelists Planning Area @BillTrenouth Essex County Demonstration (Toronto and Region Mark Mattson Katharina Richter Katie Stammler Farm: Using Local Partnerships Conservation Authority) (Swim Drink Fish Canada) (Natural Resources Solutions (Essex Region Conservation Authority) to Understand and Demonstrate and Heather Hewitt @GL_Guide Inc.) Conservation Farming Techniques (Region of Peel) @swimdrinkfish Reducing Minor Phosphorus Leaks Michael Dick @LOWaterkeeper from Greenhouses (Essex Region Conservation Authority) @waterkeepermark Using GIS to Model Climate Vicki Hilborn Change Vulnerabilities on Marlaine Koehler (Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food Urban Forests for Municipal (Waterfront Regeneration and Rural Affairs) Climate Adaptation Planning Trust) Jade Schofield @WaterfrontRT Phosphorus Reduction Strategies for (Town of Ajax) Marcia Cunningham Greenhouse Operations (CG+C Educational Nathan Warkentin Communications) (Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable @CGCEdComms Growers) @SCInnovation1 Patrick Madahbee (former Grand Council Chief, Anishinabek Nation)

25 26 DAY THREE THURSDAY • November 15, 2018

Communications and Natural Heritage and Workshop, Field Trips Great Lakes and Rivers Watershed Management Lands Climate Change Outreach Biodiversity and Tours

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Innovative Binational Initiatives to Restoring Coldwater Fisheries - from We Eat the Landscape We Want to Tools and Approaches to Successful Tools for Citizen Science Monitoring Workshop | Making It Advance Conservation Across the Volunteer Actions to Taking on the See Addressing Vulnerability and Conservation Funding Programs Work: An Introduction to Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Basin “Mega Slump” Climate Change Effects Low Impact Development People have to understand the Learn from local experts This session will provide [Continued] This session will showcase three Join us to learn from American and complexity of the relationship In this session, presenters on how to develop strong an overview of the role of innovative, partnership-based Canadian experiences in restoration between land management, from different sectors will fundraising tools and citizen science monitoring Please note this workshop initiatives involving both funders of cold water trout streams – including stewardship and our choices in discuss recent and innovative analysis methods for building programs in Ontario, followed takes place from 2:00 PM - and practitioners on both sides of projects both large and small. food. This panel will talk food choice, tools and approaches to conservation programs by two different citizen 4:45 PM the border. Speakers will provide marketing and the impact on the assessing and addressing through target setting and science programs that are This introductory workshop an overview of their initiatives, and environment. vulnerability to the effects of comprehensive messaging. helping to achieve effective will cover the essential discuss the benefits, challenges and climate change. conservation outcomes. aspects of low impact lessons learned from these unique Addressing Three Unique development, from binational approaches. Impairments to Brown’s Creek - A Precedent for Ontario Organic Certification as a Model to Conservation Fundraising: design considerations to 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM Kevin Biehn Improve Soil Health, Water Quality Climate Change Adaptation Foresight, Forage & Flourish Improving Biodiversity construction, operation, (Emmons & Olivier Resources Inc) and Biodiversity in the Six Nations of the Sandi Ramsay Monitoring and Reporting in maintenance and Moderator Dr. Ralph C. Martin Grand River Community (Lower Trent Conservation) Ontario performance verification. Join Thea Silver (University of Guelph) Christopher Martin Rebekah Church Bill Trenouth and Kyle Vander Bringing Back Brookies Project and (Ontario Trillium Foundation) (Six Nations Elected Council’s (Environmental Commissioner Linden for this informative, Volunteer Engagement Successes in @Thea_OTF Environment Office) of Ontario) interactive session. Alton ON Why Cattle Are Integral to Our Jordan Graham Stewardship Program Funding Collaboration on (Trout Unlimited Canada) Katherine McLeod Approaches to Conducting The Great Lakes Marsh Infrastructure: Creative Solutions for (Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Vulnerability Assessments Monitoring Program: A Lake Ontario Association) in the Great Lakes Basin: A Successful Formula for Saving a Minnesota River Burkhard Mausberg Literature Review Effective Conservation Jay Michels (Great Lakes One Water Partnership) Suzanne Perdeaux Doug Tozer (Emmons & Olivier Resources Inc.) Larry McDermott (Ontario Centre for Climate (Bird Studies Canada) (Plenty Canada) Impacts and Adaptation Great Lakes Mayors in Action Resources) Nicola Crawhall Is the Coast Clear? Engaging (Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Citizens in Great Lakes Initiative) Monitoring and Influencing Change Tineasha Brenot Working Together to Address (Lake Huron Centre for Nutrient Targets Within the Lake Erie Coastal Conservation) Action Plan Lindsay Telfer (Lake Erie Collective) @LTelfer @h2oAlliance

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