International Falls, Minnesota
Nov. 20-22, 2003
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The Third ManOMin Watershed Conference,
Nov. 20-22, 2003 International Falls, Minnesota.
Rainy River First Nations and Rainy River Community College are pleased to present the Third ManOMin Watershed Conference to be held Nov. 20, 21 and 22, 2003, at Rainy River Community College in International Falls, Minnesota.
The conference name comes from the Anishnaabe word manoomin, or wild rice, a culturally significant food staple. Water sustains us and is the essential ingredient for wild rice growth. It is of utmost importance that we inventory, monitor and rehabilitate areas of concern in its traditional territory, the Rainy River Watershed.
To attend the conference please register here.
FULL CONFERENCE AGENDA
Day 1:
Thursday, November 20, 2003:
Gymnasium
8:00 a.m. 9:00 am. Registration
8:00 a.m. Coffee served
9:00 a.m. Welcome & Introduction
Gymnasium: Plenary Session
Co-Chairs: Chief Al Hunter & Provost Tom
Weegar
Opening Prayer
Elder: Elder Ann Wilson, Rainy River First Nations
9:30 10:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
Wade Davis, Ethno botanist and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 - 12:00 noon The Rainy River Basin Water Resources Centre: Where do We Go from Here?
Don & Wendy Graves, Rainy River Community
College
Nolan Baratono, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Noon Complimentary Lunch
1:00 2:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Gymnasium
Session One:
Rainy River Contaminants
Donna Mergler, University of Quιbec, Montrιal
Jean Carreau, University of Quebec, Montreal
Theatre
Session Two:
Seeing the Forest Among the Trees: Sustainable Forestry needs Sustainable Forests
Herb Hammond, Silva Foundation
2:15 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Gymnasium
Session One:
Mercury in Northern Minnesota
Lakes: Sources,Accumulation in Aquatic
Organism
James Wiener, Wisconsin Distinguished
Professor, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Theatre
Session Two:
Aboriginal Participation in Forest
Management in Canada
Harry Bombay, National Aboriginal Forestry Association
3:30 3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Gymnasium
Plenary Session: Wrap Up
Co-Chairs: Chief Al Hunter & Provost Tom
Weegar
Evening Session
5:15 7:30 p.m. Networking Dinner at the Holiday Inn,
International Falls
Dinner Presentation: Herb Hammond, Silva
Foundation
Day 2: Friday November 21, 2003:
Gymnasium
9:00 a.m. Welcome/Opening
Chairpersons: Anne Wilson & Martin Nantel
Rainy River First Nations
Review of Day I
9:30 10:30 a.m. Traditional Knowledge & Science
Mike Anderson, Research Director, Manitoba
Keewatinowi Okimakanak
10:30 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 12:00 Noon Concurrent Sessions
Gymnasium
Session One:
Moccasin Trails: Paths towards
Creating Community-Based Environmental
Capacity: Elders Circle
Facilitator: Chief Al Hunter,
Elder Ann Wilson, Rainy River First Nations
Elder Sam Gibbons. North West Angle #33 First
Nation
Theatre
Session Two: TBC
12:00 Noon 1:00 p.m. Complimentary Lunch
1:00 2:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Theatre
Session One:
A New Era Has Begun in Forest
Management Throughout the World
Joe Kuhn, Grand Council Treaty #3
Gymnasium
Session Two:
Moccasin Trails: Paths Towards
Creating Community- Based Environmental
Capacity Panel Discussion
Mike Anderson, Manitoba Keewatinowi
Okimakanak
Mike Williams, Walpole Island Heritage Centre
Curtis Gagnon, Grand Portage
2:15 - 3:30 p.m. Theatre
Session One:
Co-operative International Water
Level Monitoring Efforts on Rainy River Lake and
Namakan Lake
Larry W. Kallemeyn, U.S. Geological Service
Linda Wall, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Gymnasium
Session Two:
Moccasin Trails: Paths Towards
Creating Community-Based Environmental
Capacity Panel Discussion
Mike Anderson, Manitoba Keewatinowi
Okimakanak
Mike Williams, Walpole Island Heritage Centre
Curtis Gagnon, Grand Portage
3:30 3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 5:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Theatre
Session One:
TBD
TBC
Gymnasium
Session Two:
Moccasin Trails: Paths Towards Creating
Community-Capacity
Round Table: Next Steps
5:15 p.m. Traditional Dinner at Rainy River
Community College
Evening: Townshend Theatre
(Fort Francis High School)
440 McIrvine Road, Fort Frances
7 p.m. Community Presentation with
Herb Hammond
Walking Softly:
Ecosystem-based planning
for ecological and cultural sustainability
Day 3: Saturday November 22, 2003
Gymnasium
9:00 a.m. Welcome/Opening
Co-Chairs: Chief Al Hunter & Provost Tom
Weegar
Review of Day 2
9:30 10:30 a.m. Global Warming and the Future of Minnesotas
Forests
John Pastor, Natural Resources Research
Institute, University of Minnesota in Duluth
10:30 10:45 a.m. Break
Concurrent Sessions
Gymnasium
10:45 12:45 a.m. Workshop:
Sharing a Common Vision: Stewardship
Planning Initiatives in the Rainy River Basin
Martin Nantel, Rainy River First Nations
Wayne Wysocki, Symbion Consultants
Nolan Baratono, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
10:45 11:45 a.m Theatre
Session One:
Linking Landscape Ecology and Stream Fish
Ecology: Implications for Protecting Biological
Integrity
Isaac Schlosser, University of North Dakota
11:45 12:45 Theatre
Session Two:
TBC
TBC
12:45 1:45 p.m. Complimentary Lunch & Tour Exhibits
1:45 2:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Gymnasium
Session One:
Cultural Thoughts on Environment
Elder Ann Wilson, Rainy River First Nations
Theatre
Session Two:
A Natural History of the Rainy River Basin
Rob Foster, Northern Bioscience
2:00 3:00 p.m. Gymnasium
Session One:
Forestry Practices on Patent Land in the Rainy
River District
Eric Kaufman, Abitibi Consolidated Company
of Canada
2:00 2:30 p.m. Theatre
Session Two:
Manomin
Elder Sam Gibbons, North West Angle #33
First Nation
2:30 3:00 p.m. Theatre
Session Three:
Monitoring Wetlands Vegetation on Rainy
and Namakan Lakes
Allan Harris, Northern Bioscience