Partnership Meeting - April 9, 2015

Meeting Location: Grey Towers National Historic Site, Milford, PA

Call-in Number: 760-569-9000, passcode 476692#

9:10-9:15 Welcome, Overview of Agenda, Introductions

9:15-10:30 MAIN DISCUSSION TOPICS
Pocono-Kittatinny Cluster update
Neversink River floodplain restoration project
Climate adaptation plan implementation update

10:30-10:45 BREAK

10:45-12:00 Roundtable Sharing

12:00 Lunch

Next meeting date: WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2015 – 9am to 12pm – Location TBA
Followed by Thursday, October 8, 2015 – Location TBA

Virtual Partnership Meeting - January 8

Webinar ID: 149-240-435
See individual GoToWebinar login details in your confirmation email

Call-in Number: 760-569-9000, passcode 476692#

9:10-9:15 Welcome, Overview of Agenda, Introductions

9:15-10:15 MAIN DISCUSSION TOPICS
National Park Service - preview of NPS centennial & Delaware Water Gap 50th anniversary plans
Pocono-Kittatinny Cluster update
Climate adaptation plan implementation

10:15-10:30 BREAK

10:30-11:30 Roundtable Sharing

Next meeting date: Thursday, April 9, 2015 – 9am to 12pm – Location TBA
Followed by WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2015 – Location TBA

Partnership Meeting - October 9, 2014

Meeting Location: Sullivan County Gov’t Center, 2nd Floor Hearing Room, 100 North Street, Monticello, NY 12701

Call-in Number: 760-569-9000, passcode 476692#

9:00-9:10 Welcome and Overview of Agenda

9:10-9:15 Introductions

9:15-10:30 MAIN DISCUSSION TOPICS
9:15 Update on Pocono-Kittatinny Cluster work - Steve Schwartz
9:45 Natural Economies – follow-up activities and needs – Gateway team
10:00 Update from Friends of the Upper Delaware River – Jeff Skelding (tentative)
10:15 Climate adaptation work - Stephanie

10:30-10:45 BREAK

10:45-12:00 Roundtable Sharing

Partnership Meeting - July 2014

The quarterly partnership meeting was held on Thursday, July 10, 2014 at the Pocono Environmental Education Center.

Agenda

Meeting Location: Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC)
Call-in Number: 760-569-9000, passcode 476692#

9:00-9:10 Welcome and Overview of Agenda

9:10-9:15 Introductions

9:15-10:30 MAIN DISCUSSION TOPICS
9:15 Update on William Penn Foundation-supported work
9:30 Natural Economies – follow-up activities and needs – Gateway team
10:00 Capacity/funding needs for partnership

10:30-10:45 BREAK

10:45-12:00 Roundtable Sharing

Common Waters Partnership Meeting

The next partnership meeting will be held on Thursday, April 10 from 9am-12pm at Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, PA.

See agenda here.

Partnership meeting -- July 11

The quarterly meeting of the Common Waters Partners will be held at Grey Towers in Milford, PA. The call-in number is (559) 546-1000; Participant Access Code: 683956#

9:00-9:10: Welcome and Overview of Agenda – Will Price and Stephanie Dalke
9:10- 10:45: MAIN DISCUSSION TOPICS
Regional Planning workshop May 14, 2013 – Riverview Inn, Matamoras– Stephanie Dalke
Model Forest Policy Program Climate Solutions University – Susan Beecher (20 minutes) Blueways Proposal – Eric Olsen (30 minutes)
William Penn Foundation work update
Common Waters Fund – Stephanie Dalke

Natural Economies: a success story

To respond to the need for better information about the value of the region’s natural resources and reasons to protect them, Common Waters organized a workshop in May of 2013 in Matamoras, PA on “Natural Economies.” Economic development is often equated with physical growth of cities and towns or other types of natural resource extraction. Because healthy natural resources form the base of the region’s rural economy and character but residents still need jobs and income, Common Waters began a discussion about how to strengthen the local economy without depleting or destroying these resources.

Protecting Your Land Workshops

Landowners: take advantage of these upcoming workshops with our partner, the Delaware Highlands Conservancy, on the financial benefits of land conservation. They will be held on October 22 in Pennsylvania and October 29 in New York.

Landowners will learn how to keep cherished lands in the family and protect the landscape in perpetuity. Delaware Highlands Conservancy Executive Director Sue Currier will discuss how conservation and agricultural easements are key tools for residents of PA and NY.

Celebrating five years

Registration is now open for the October 11 meeting celebrating five years of collaboration and success at the Nurture Nature Center in Easton, PA.

Register

Grant received from DuPont

Common Waters Fund has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the DuPont Clear Into the Future® Program to support the Fund’s efforts to further scientific understanding of the role forests play in maintaining the high quality and reliable flows of the Delaware River.