Friday, August 28, 2009

1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Registration

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (Optional)
Field Trip to Little Sand Bay

5:30 PM – 6:45 PM
Dinner

7:15 PM – 7:30 PM
Welcome/Opening Remarks

7:30 PM – 8:15 PM
Uniqueness/Value of Great Lakes Basin Islands
Dr. Karen Vigmostad
Director of U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Islands Project

Saturday, August 29, 2009

8:15 AM – 9:15 AM
Welcome/Threats to Island Biodiversity (overview)

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM
Lake Michigan Islands: Biodiversity Elements and Threats
Dave Ewert
Nature Conservancy, Senior Scientist

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM
Lake Superior Islands: Biodiversity Elements and Threats
Megan Seymour
USFWS

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Lake Erie Islands: Biodiversity Elements and threats
Megan Seymour
USFWS

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Lake Huron Islands: Biodiversity Elements and Threats
Dan Kraus
Nature Conservancy of Canada

11:30 AM – 12:00 AM
Lake Ontario Islands: Biodiversity Elements and Threats
Dan Kraus
Nature Conservancy of Canada

12:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Lunch w/First Nation Island Stories
Simon Otto

1:45 PM – 2:00 PM
Poster Presentations

2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Control Strategies, Land Trusts, Conservancies, Case Studies
Clint Jacobs
Canadian Sovereign Nation of Walpole Island
Gail Jackson
Canadian Parks, Canadian Marine Conservation Area of northern Lake Superior and the Little Traverse Nature Conservancy

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Closing Remarks

4 PM – 6:00 PM
Field Trip – Beaver Island’s interior lakes, marshes & natural areas

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Dinner

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Entertainment and Networking Opportunities

Sunday, August 30, 2009

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Next Steps

10:30 AM
Leave for the ferry