2016 CONFERENCE: Schedule

Sunday, September 11, 2016
12:00pm - 6:00pm	On-site Registration	Great Range Foyer
12:00pm - 6:00pm	Sponsor & Exhibitor Set-Up	Avalanche Pass
2:00pm - TBD	Optional Group Hike: Natural History Walk to Bloomingdale Bog Transportation: Car Pooling; Cost: Free Leaders: Ed Frantz and Kurt Weiskotten For those arriving on Sunday, consider joining us for an afternoon hike to one of New York’s largest peat lands. We will explore this unique area looking at the plants, birds, critters and other natural features. The site is rich in plant life and always has something unique for birds. The hike will follow an old railroad grade with a few wet spots here and there. Dress accordingly for weather and terrain. Please sign up as space is limited to 20 participants. We will meet in the lobby of the High Peaks Hotel near the front desk starting at 1:30 PM and we will leave at 2:00 PM. We will need volunteers to help carpool to the site (about a 20 minute drive). If you are not sure of your travel schedule, feel free to stop by (between 1:30-2:00) and check if we have any cancellations. If you need to contact Ed Frantz the day of the field trip, call his cell at: (315) 796-1565.	Offsite
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Welcome Reception with Sponsors & Exhibitors	Great Range Courtyard
7:30pm	Dinner On Your Own	Offsite
Monday, September 12, 2016
8:00am - 5:00pm	On-site Registration	Great Range Foyer
8:00am - 9:00am	Breakfast Buffet	Great Range
8:00am - 5:00pm	Sponsors, Exhibits & Posters Open	Avalanche Pass
9:00am - 10:00am	Welcome & Opening Remarks	Great Range
10:00am - 11:30am	Concurrent Sessions Cloudy with a Chance of Major Storm: preparing for the worst while hoping for the best — ROOM: Algonquin Room The New York State Community Risk and Resiliency Act: Mainstreaming climate change (10:00am - 10:20am) Development of Advanced Flood Recovery Training Modules for Vermont and New York: Sediment Removal, Floodplain Restoration, Channel Stabilization, and Bridge and Culvert Replacement (10:20am - 10:50am) Streamlining emergency coordination for engineering and the environment (10:50am - 11:10am) Application of the Environmental Monitoring Toolkit on Transportation Projects to Ensure Permit Compliance, Environmental Management and Ecological Stewardship (11:10am - 11:30am) Power of Partnerships: nationally established, locally applied — ROOM: Iroquois Room Getting the Most Out of Transportation Liaison Relationships: Expediting Project Delivery through Partnerships (10:00am - 10:20am) Working Together: Improving conditions for natural resources and infrastructure in Massachusetts (10:20am - 10:50am) Ten Years of the Eco-Logical Approach: Looking Back at What We’ve Accomplished, and Forward to What We’ve Yet to Do (10:50 am - 11:10 am) Building town capacity for improving road-stream crossings in Massachusetts (11:10am - 11:30am) Water to Weeds: managing our roadsides — ROOM: Wright Room Understanding allelopathy science as a means to reduce herbicide use for woody plant control (10:00am - 10:30am) Re-plumbing roadside ditch networks, the unrecognized driver of flooding, water pollution, and in-stream erosion and habitat degradation (10:30am - 11:00am) Working with the NYSDOT to implement invasive plant prevention and management practices along Adirondack roads (11:00am - 11:30am) Using Integrated Vegetation Management in the Control of Poison Ivy and Wild Parsnip (11:30am - 12:00pm)
11:30am - 1:30pm	Lunch & Keynote Speaker Bill McKibben, 350.org (about)	Great Range
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Concurrent Sessions Panel - Facing Climate Change — ROOM: Algonquin Room State transportation agencies facing climate change – highlights of the northeastern state FHWA climate change resilience pilot projects. Panel - Partnerships for Passages — ROOM: Iroquois Room Forming a public/private process to evaluate wildlife passage needs in Maine- Creating a systematic approach to passage prioritizaiton and measurement. Panel - Programmatic Consultation for Bats — ROOM: Wright Room Implementing a Rangewide Programmatic: The Indiana Bat and Northern Long-Eared Bat Programmatic Consultation in Practice.
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Coffee Break with Sponsors, Exhibitors & Posters	Avalanche Pass
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Concurrent Sessions When Water Runs Through It: managing and monitoring dynamic crossings — ROOM: Algonquin Room Identifying Culvert Replacement Priorities for Maintaining Connectivity of Cold Water Fish Habitat in the Face of Climate Change (3:30pm - 3:50pm) Monitoring Mammal Movement Through Terrestrial and Aquatic Passageways in Antigonish, Nova Scotia Using Remote Camera Sensing (3:50pm - 4:10pm) Long Term Construction and Maintenance Cost Comparison for Road Stream Crossings: Traditional Hydraulic Design vs. Aquatic Organism Passage Design (4:10pm - 4:40pm) MassDOT Stream Crossing Handbook (4:40pm - 5:00pm) Where the Wild Things Are: what features are being used by whom and when? — ROOM: Iroquois Room Under-road wildlife movement through culverts and bridges in Vermont: influences of structure and site characteristics (3:30pm - 3:50pm) Assessing wildlife movement potential within the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority jurisdiction (3:50pm - 4:10pm) I-89 Wildlife Connectivity Study (4:10pm - 4:40pm) Identifying wildlife corridors and passages under Highway 10, in the Appalachians of Southern Quebec, Canada (4:40pm - 5:00pm) Catch the Buzz: rapid fire lightning talks and posters — ROOM: Wright Room Rte 21 recurrent problem spots – advance environmental planning, a low tech tool to speed transportation maintenance during storm response. No sport for the short winded: A Grassroots Wildlife Crossing Success Story. A modern day protocol to assess tidal crossings. State Wildlife Action Plans and Transportation-related Wildlife Projects. Wetland Banking in the Adirondack Park.
6:00pm - 8:30pm	Conference Dinner at Lake Placid Golf House Transportation is not provided.	Offsite
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
7:00am - 12:00pm	On-site Registration	Great Range Foyer
7:00am - 8:30am	Breakfast Buffet	Great Range
7:00am - 12:00pm	Sponsors, Exhibits & Posters Open	Avalanche Pass & Wright Room
8:30am - 10:00am	Concurrent Workshops & Lightning Talks Workshop - Emergency Stream Intervention Training — begins at 8:00am — ROOM: Algonquin Room Emergency Stream Intervention Training - Part 1 Workshop - Staying Connected Initiative Camera Summit — ROOM: Iroquois Room Staying Connected Initiative Camera Summit: Part 1 Feel the Spark: series of lightning talks and posters — ROOM: Wright Room Natural Resource Navigator: Charting a smart future for a changing climate. Monitoring effectiveness of reptile tunnels and exclusion fencing on Highway 69, Ontario, Canada. Non-Regulatory Project Updates from MassWildlife and MassDOT. Amphibians Hit the Road: Assessing Roadway Mortality and Ecopassage Utilization along a Two-lane Highway. OPEN Constructing vernal pools for wetlands mitigation: how well are we doing?
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee Break with Sponsors, Exhibitors & Posters	Avalanche Pass & Wright Room
10:30am - 12:00pm	Concurrent Workshops & Lightning Talks Workshop - Emergency Stream Intervention Training — ROOM: Algonquin Room Emergency Stream Intervention Training - Part 2 Workshop - Staying Connected Initiative Camera Summit — ROOM: Iroquois Room Staying Connected Initiative Camera Summit: Part 2 Hot Topics: series of lightning talks and posters — ROOM: Wright Room The Northern Long-eared Bat Listing and State Departments of Transportation Bat Surveys. Predicting moose crossing hotspots in western Maine using habitat connectivity models. A Multi-Stage Mussel Survey and Relocation Methodology Based on Threshold Densities of a Vermont State Listed Species. Reptile fencing and turtle-friendly beaver baffle design, testing and monitoring. Update on Large animal use of wildlife passage structures in Northern and Western Maine. Whiteface Highway Rare Plant Monitoring and Transplant Project
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Field Trip Preview with a Grab & Go Lunch / Board Buses for Field Trip	Great Range
12:30pm - 5:30pm	Conference Field Trip (details)	Offsite
Evening	Dinner On Your Own	Offsite
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
7:00am - 12:00pm	On-site Registration	Great Range Foyer
7:00am - 8:00am	Breakfast Buffet	Great Range
7:00am - 11:30am	Sponsors, Exhibits & Posters Open	Avalanche Pass
8:30am - 10:00am	Concurrent Sessions Panel - Pollinator Conservation — ROOM: Algonquin Room Case studies of Integrative Vegetation Management for Pollinator Conservation in the Northeast. Panel - Collaboration for Road-stream Crossings — ROOM: Iroquois Room Improving Road-stream Crossings Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Workshop - Road Ecology Citizen Science — ROOM: Wright Room How to Organize and Sustain Road Ecology Citizen Science
10:00am - 10:30am	Coffee Break with Sponsors, Exhibitors & Posters	Avalanche Pass
10:30am - 12:00pm	Concurrent Sessions Helping Herps: new perspectives — ROOM: Algonquin Room A roadway wildlife crossing structure designed for state-threatened wood turtles in New Jersey, United States (10:30am - 10:50am) Lessons learned from 10 years of post construction monitoring of constructed vernal pools for the Stewart Airport Interconnector roadway. (10:50am - 11:20am) Why we need to incorporate animal behavior into road ecology: A case history with aquatic turtles. (11:20am - 11:40am) Northern Copperhead on the Edge-Invasive species connection (11:40am - 12:00pm) Beyond the Curb: Assessing and Construction Ecological Decisions — ROOM: Iroquois Room “Boots on the Ground” Are Already Going Green: Stream Restoration Best Practices from Maintenance Programs. (10:30am - 10:50am) Wildlife Tracking Skills: Identifying Trails Based On Track Patterns & Dimensions (10:50am - 11:20am) Alternatives to Roadway Lighting - Ecological Considerations (11:20am - 11:40am) Assessment of bat roost potential in New England bridges (11:40am - 12:00pm) Connecting the Spots: corrior planning for connectivity from national to local levels — ROOM: Wright Room Mitigation and the Role of Land Trusts: Conservation Partners for Transportation and Infrastructure Developers (10:30am - 10:50am) Landscape linkages: engaging communities in planning for habitat connectivity (10:50am - 11:20am) Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey (CHANJ) (11:20am - 11:40am) Travel Corridor Unit Management Planning in the Adirondack Park (11:40am - 12:00pm)
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Wrap-up Plenary	Great Range
12:30pm	Conference Adjourns

Keynote Presenter: Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages; he’s gone on to write a dozen more books. He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty  thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.  

The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”   

A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat— Megophthalmidia mckibbeni— ​in his honor.

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