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Schedule of Events
Friday, July 25
1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Board of Directors Meeting
Saturday, July 26
6:15 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Optional Site-seeing Tour – Jet Boating on the Snake River
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Board of Directors Meeting
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. WEPP Workshop
8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. CPESC Council Meeting
12:00 – 6:00 p.m. Registration Open
5:30 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. Optional Family Event – Dinner and
Laser Light Show at Grand Coulee Dam
Sunday, July 27
7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration Open
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Exhibitor and Poster Set-up
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CPESC and CPSWQ Exam Reviews
9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Optional Family Event –
Coeur d’Alene and Lake Cruise
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Student Member Orientation
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. First Timers Orientation
12:30 – 4:30 p.m. Workshop – Conservation Buffers Effects and Design for
Air Quality
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. International Activities Committee Meeting
1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Workshop – Stormwater Management and Sediment
Reduction – Site Inspector Training
1:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibits/Posters and Inland Empire Chapter Silent Auction
Open
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. JSWC Editorial Board Meeting
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. Student Activity – Career Opportunities in Conservation
1:30 – 5:30 p.m. Chapter Development Workshop (NOTE: NEW TIME
FRAME)
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. SWCS and Berg Fellows Joint Meeting
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Professional Development and Membership Committees
Meeting
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Scholarship Committee Meeting
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Moderators’ Orientation
4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Workshop – Technical Service Providers (TSPs): NRCS
Certification Requirements
6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Teen and Youth Welcome Event – Raptor Rehabilitation
Program
6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall; Silent Auction
Monday, July 28
6:45 – 8:00 a.m. South Central and Southeastern Regional (combined) breakfast
East North Central Regional Breakfast
Northern Plains Regional Breakfast
West Regional Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration Open
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Exhibits and Posters Open; Silent Auction
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Plenary Session I
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Optional Site-seeing Tour – Historic Spokane’s “Age of
Elegance”
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Youth and Teen Activity – Hiking and Horseback Riding
in Riverside State Park
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Optional Site-seeing Tour – The Silver Valley
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break in Exhibit Hall
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Personal Development Session – Estate Planning and
Retirement Issues
10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Concurrent Session I
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Teen Activity – Wild Walls Climbing Gym and Laser Quest
10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Youth and Teen Activity – Day at Splashdown
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Plenary Session II
1:00 – 4:30 p.m. Optional Site-seeing Tour – Green Bluff Orchards and
Mountain Dome Winery
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Break in Exhibit Hall
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Personal Development Session – Stress Management
Workshop
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Concurrent Session II
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Exhibit and Poster Teardown; Silent Auction closes
6:00 – 9:30 p.m. Social Night Picnic in Riverfront Park and Evening
Entertainment in Plenary Session Room
Tuesday, July 29
6:45 – 8:00 a.m. Northeastern Regional Breakfast
West North Central Regional Breakfast
Southwestern Regional Breakfast
Canadian Regional Breakfast
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Technical Tour – Grand Coulee Dam and Dry Falls
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Technical Tour – The Silver Valley
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Technical Tour – High Technology Forestry
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration Open
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Technical Tour – Spokane Soil and Water Conservation Tour
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ARSCSE Board Meeting
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshop – Nutrient Management to Reduce Emissions
from Agriculture and Livestock Production
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshop – Vegetative Considerations for Streambank
Soil Bioengineering
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Workshop – Wastewater Management – A Poplar
Solution
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Workshop – Establishing a Discharge Station for
Recording Streamflow: A Technical Training Workshop
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Student Technical Tour – Scablands and Dryland Research
Station at Lind
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Technical Tour – Paradise Called the Palouse
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. USDA-NRCS Chief’s Executive Team Meeting
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Optional Site-seeing Tour – Historic Spokane’s “Age of
Elegance”
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CPESC and CPSWQ Exams
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Youth and Teen Activity – Silverwood Theme Park
12:30 – 4:30 p.m. Workshop – Use of Comprehensive Nutrient Management
Plans (CNMPs) as Tools to Improve Air Quality and
Watershed and Basin Management
1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Workshop – Developing the Pest Management
Component of a Conservation Plan Using the NRCS
Windows Pesticide Screening Tool
1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Workshop – Leadership Development for the 21st
Century – Earth Care Connection, USA
1:30 – 5:00 p.m. Optional Site-seeing Tour – Glass Blowing and Wine
Tasting
5:15 – 6:15 p.m. Women in Conservation Meeting and Reception
5:30 – 9:00 p.m. ARSCSE Social and Banquet
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Local Arrangements Committees Meeting
Wednesday, July 30
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. House of Delegates Meeting
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration Open
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Session III
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Plenary Session III
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Awards Lunch
1:30 – 5:30 p.m. Workshop – RUSLE 2 – Part I of II
2:00 – 6:00 p.m. Workshop – Use of Comprehensive Nutrient Management
Plans (CNMPs) as tools to Improve Air Quality and
Watershed and Basin Management (repeat of Tuesday
workshop)
2:00 – 6:00 p.m. Workshop – Developing the Pest Management
Component of a Conservation Plan Using the NRCS
Windows Pesticide Screening Tool (repeat of Tuesday
workshop)
Thursday, July 31
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshop – RUSLE 2 – Part II of II
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshop – Conservation Buffers Effects and Design for
Air Quality (repeat of Saturday workshop)
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshop – Nutrient management to Reduce Emissions
form Agriculture and Livestock Production (repeat of
Tuesday workshop)
9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Workshop – TBA/MTBE Remediation
SWCS reserves the right to cancel events/activities without prior notice.
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2004 SWCS Annual Conference
July 24-28, 2004
Radisson Riverfront Hotel
St. Paul, Minnesota
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