2024 CAWS ANNUAL MEETING
Thursday, March 7, 2024
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The Heritage Hotel Golf, Spa & Conference Center
522 Heritage Road, Southbury, CT 06488

Agenda & Presentations

8:00 - 8:30​	​Registration / Continental Breakfast / Exhibitor Set-up
8:30 - 8:45	​Welcome / Opening Remarks and Announcements
8:45 - 9:30	Project Spotlight: A Special Wetland, Eversource Energy’s Atlantic White Cedar Mitigation Project, The 1st Year — Melissa Kaplan, PWS (BSC Group)
​9:30 - 10:30	Presentation from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Charlotte Skolnick (USACE)
​10:30 - 11:00	**BREAK** (Visit our Exhibitors!)
​11:00 - 12:00	Presentation from the Connecticut DEEP — Jeff Caiola and Brian Golembiewski (CT DEEP)
12:00 - 1:00	**LUNCH** — CAWS Annual Business Meeting 12:30-1:00
​1:00 - 1:30	2023 Grant Recipient Reports Invasive P. australis May Not Be The Blue Carbon Solution We Thought It Is : A Case Study In Southern Connecticut  — Precious Adesoji, UNH (2023 LeFor Grant Recipient) Native Meadows Invasive Plant Education and Management — Kelsy Sudol & Annette Lott, Northwest Conservation District (2023 Mehrhoff Grant Recipient)
​1:30 - 1:45	Connecticut In-Lieu-Fee Program — Anthony Zemba (LandTech)
​1:45 - 2:30	Strong Pond Dam Removed! Collaboration Restores Aquatic Connectivity in the Norwalk River — Alex Krofta (Save the Sound) and Michael Chelminski (Stantec) --- PART 1 --- PART2
​2:30 - 3:00	​**BREAK** (Visit our Exhibitors!)
​3:00 - 3:30	Town of Fairfield Vernal Pool Mapping — Timothy Bishop (Town of Fairfield CD)
​3:30 - 4:15	Presentation from the Connecticut Siting Council — Melanie Bachman and  Robert Mercier (Connecticut Siting Council)
​4:15 - 4:30	​Final Remarks and Close

2024 ANNUAL MEETING SILVER SPONSORS

2024 ANNUAL MEETING EXHIBTORS

All Habitat Services, LLC	North Central Conservation District, Inc.
Connecticut Resource Conservation and Development Area, Inc.	Onset Computer Corporation
Earth Tones LLC	Pinelands Nursery
Eversource	Planters' Choice Nursery, LLC
Farmington River Watershed Assoc.	Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition
GZA GeoEnvironmental	The Pond and Lake Connection
Kind Earth Growers LLC	​Stantec
National Association of Wetland Managers