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Keynote speaker will be Rob Hyde
Great Lakes Program Officer / Great Lakes Ecosystem Management, Strategic Policy Branch
Environment and Climate Change Canada / Government of Canada
Lake-wide Action and Management Plans for the Great Lakes
Agenda -November 9th
Open to all - please register
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Lunch at noon - optional in registration - please register
1PM - Welcome and introductions - Tonia Kittlelson - Chair
2:00 -
- Sister Sites
- Land Manger Update - State of our Public Lands
2:30 -HOCP Projects Update
- Science Symposium
- Crane Lake Multi-Agency Visitor Center
- Sustainable Recreation and Cross Border Tourism
- Bike The Heart
3:30 -Fort William Historical Park's 50th anniversary and return of the Great Rendezvous - July 2023
4:30-Guest Speaker, Rob Hyde - Lake Wide Action Management Plan for the Great Lakes
5:30 -Break
6:00 -Dinner served at FWHP - register with hocp@heartofthecontinent.org
7:00 - Walk or shuttle to Observatory
7:15 -Dark skies conversations -Land Managers will talk about obtaining official Dark Sky Status
Applications for new potential dark sky parks/areas
7:45 -Presentation by Travis Novitsky - clips from PBS Documentary "Northern Nights Starry Skies"
Land Managers will talk about obtaining official Dark Sky Status
8:30 - David and Leah Jackson - Across the Heart in 30 Days - Manitoba to Thunder Bay on the Path of the Paddle
9:00- Adjourn
November 10th - Land Managers Steering and Science Committees
- 9:00AM - Sister Sites Arrangement - bi-national multi-agency agreement that includes the Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, NE Minnesota Department Natural Resources, Quetico and La Verendrye Provincial Parks
- 10:00 -Science Symposium 2023
- 11:00 -Crane Lake Multi-Agency Visitor Center
- 12:00 adjourn
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