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
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
​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)
​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
 
  • Check-in begins at 8:00 a.m. Opening comments and introduction of first speaker at 8:30 a.m. 
  • Last session will be complete by 4:30 p.m. 
  • Continental breakfast and lunch provided. 
  • Questions and Answers during the final minutes of each presenter.
  • Exhibitors will be on site with products and services of interest to wetland professionals. 
  • Certificates of Completion (CEUs) provided at the end of the conference. 
  • PowerPoint Presentations will be posted to CAWS website after the conference.
  • Happy hour on site at The Heritage Hotel Golf, Spa & Conference Center to follow 

Cost is $75 for members and $100 for non-members (students $50.00 with ID) and includes continental breakfast and lunch!
 
Register online here.
 
Join CAWS today and pay the member rate! Learn more about CAWS membership.
 
Exhibitors and sponsors welcome! Make an impression on those involved in the study and management of wetlands and other conservation lands (more than 200 people attended last year's Annual Meeting!). Exhibitor tables are $300 ($100 for 501c3 organizations and government agencies) and includes two registrations.

Looking to help support the CAWS mission and be a sponsor of the 2024 Annual Meeting? Check out our Sponsorship Opportunities! Sponsors will be recognized on content throughout the program. Please reach out in info@ctwetlands.org if you are interested.

If you are interested in helping with developing this year's or future Annual Meetings, please reach out to​ wetlands@ctwetlands.org