[SEMCO] Winter Lecture Series/Coalition for Buzzards Bay
Tracey Crago
tcrago@whoi.edu
Fri, 08 Feb 2002 09:40:11 -0500
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The Coalition for Buzzards Bay Winter Lecture Series
Paying for Open Space Protection
Wed. March 13 7:00 p.m. Rochester Women’s Club,
Rochester, MA
Moderator: Susan Peterson, Rochester Land Trust
Panelists: Elizabeth Adams, The Trust for Public
Land
Susan Guiducci, Dartmouth
Agricultural Trust Fund
Mark Robinson, Compact of Cape Cod
Conservation Trusts
Brad Wakeman, North Andover
Community Preservation Committee
Open space protection has become a critical issue in
the Buzzards Bay watershed. Southeastern
Massachusetts is the fastest
growing region in the northeast and watershed towns
are searching for the most effective and lucrative
financing strategies
to save important spaces in a variety of ways. A
few of these methods include town Land Banks, the
Community
Preservation Act (CPA) and Agricultural Trust
Funds. Tonight's presentation features a panel of
speakers who will share
their experiences with various methods of municipal
financing for open space.
Cosponsored by Rochester Land Trust and Rochester
Open Space Committee
For more information contact Bob Rocha, The
Coalition for Buzzards Bay, (508) 999-6363, ext. 202
or
rocha@savebuzzardsbay.org. Light refreshments will
be provided.
Preserving Biodiversity in Southeastern
Massachusetts
Wednesday, March 27 7:00 p.m. Wareham Public
Library, Wareham, MA
Michael Nelson, Invertebrate Zoologist,
Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered
Species Program
Biodiversity / GIS Mapping Specialist, The Nature
Conservancy, Eastern Resource Office
“Massachusetts has a rich biological legacy and is
home to a wide array of plants and animals, some
that are unique to our
state, others have their largest, most stable
populations here, and yet others are very common.”
Protection of state
biodiversity has become a priority both at the state
level and within conservation organizations.
BioMap: Guiding Land
Conservation for Biodiversity in Massachusetts (the
document quoted above) was recently published by the
Massachusetts
Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. This
publication, and efforts by the
Nature Conservancy, highlights the need for
identifying and protecting critical habitat to
preserve the rich assortment of
flora and fauna of our state. Both speakers will
comment on their research, their results and the
actions their respective
parties have undertaken to identify and protect
Massachusetts rich ecological diversity.
Cosponsored by The Wildlands Trust of Southeastern
Massachusetts
For more information contact Bob Rocha, The
Coalition for Buzzards Bay, (508) 999-6363, ext. 202
or
rocha@savebuzzardsbay.org. Light refreshments will
be provided.
Sea-Level Rise - Its Implications and Effects for
Buzzards Bay
Wednesday, April 10 7:00 p.m. Redfield
Auditorium, Woods Hole, MA
S. Jeffress Williams, Senior Coastal-Marine
Geologist, USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program,
Woods Hole, MA
Graham Geise, Oceanographer Emeritus, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
This lecture will give us a view of the issue of
sea-level rise and increasing population density,
both nationally and
locally. Jeff Williams, Senior Coastal-Marine
Geologist for USGS, is currently examining the risk
and vulnerability of
U.S. coastal regions to future rise in relative
sea-level. He will provide us with a big-picture
understanding of this
complex topic. Graham Geise, Oceanographer Emeritus
from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will bring
this issue
‘home’ and share his research on sea-level rise
implications for Buzzards Bay.
Cosponsored by Woods Hole Sea Grant
For more information contact Bob Rocha, The
Coalition for Buzzards Bay, (508) 999-6363, ext. 202
or
rocha@savebuzzardsbay.org. Light refreshments will
be provided.
Alternatives to Sprawl
Wednesday, April 24 7:00 p.m. Buttonwood Park
Zoo, New Bedford, MA
David Dixon, Principal-in-Charge of planning and
urban design at Goody, Clancy and Associates in
Boston.
Southeastern Massachusetts is the fastest growing
region in the northeast. The creation of new homes,
strip malls and
office parks not only uses up open space and
threatens Bay water quality, it spreads us further
away from traditional
population centers. It usually means more time
spent in our cars, trying to reach stores, schools
and appointments. What
will this development mean for our region? Are
there creative ways to plan this expansion, ways
that challenge the
standard zoning methods and schools of thought?
For the past two years, a very large group of
Massachusetts civic leaders, political leaders,
interested citizens and design and
planning professionals has been exploring ways in
which communities can take control of urban,
suburban and rural
growth in order to shape that growth to enrich our
communities rather than succumb to unplanned
sprawl. This growth
management initiative, the Civic Initiative for a
Livable New England, is supported by a number of
organizations,
including the Boston Society of Architects. Mr.
Dixon has been a leader in this effort, currently
serving as its co-chair.
He will provide a compelling portrait of the regions
in which he has been focusing his efforts.
Cosponsored by the Buttonwood Park Zoological
Society
For more information contact Bob Rocha, The
Coalition for Buzzards Bay, (508) 999-6363, ext. 202
or
rocha@savebuzzardsbay.org. Light refreshments will
be provided.
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