Our Woodland Legacy Symposium
Opening Session
A welcome to the symposium by Cedar Rapids' Mayor Kay Halloran, an introduction by MC Shannon Ramsay, and a PowerPoint presentation by Lonnie Laffen, JLG Architects, Grand Forks, ND, on the community's response to its flood of 1997.
Session Two
Rich Leopold, Director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources discusses how to Re-imagine Iowa in the wake of flooding, tornadoes and other natural disasters of 2008
Session Three
Jacque Holloway, Holloway Family Environmental Trust, comments on Ensuring Our Woodland Legacy. Matt Nachtrieb, Trees Forever Field Coordinator, describes technological applications useful in diagnosing and prescribing implementation of a comprehensive community-wide trees program
» Ensuring Our Woodland Legacy
Session Four
Jim Patchett, Conservation Design Forum, Elmhurst, Illinois, diagnoses issues that underlie severe flooding and offers green solutions in A Design for Sustainable Systems
Workshop One
Erv Mussman, Civil Engineer, Shive-Hattery, Inc., leads one group of participants in working on a site plan for A School Building Project
Workshop Two
Bruce Hamous, LEED Certified Architect, OPN Architects, leads one group of Symposium participants on a site plan for A Commercial Infill Project
Workshop Three
Tom Podzimek, Cedar Rapids City Council, leads one group fo Symposium participants to envision A Neighborhood Planning Model