A Gathering to Share Our Visions for the Ice Age Trail
October 4th and 5th,
2008 • Beaver Creek Reserve, Fall Creek, WI
EVENT INFORMATION
Members of the Ice
Age Park & Trail Foundation are cordially invited to our Fall into the Future
event on Saturday, October 4th and Sunday, October 5th, 2008. Over the course
of the weekend, we'll hear from compelling guest speakers and have stimulating
discussions about the future of the Ice Age Trail and the IAPTF. We'll also
carve out some time to enjoy the Trail with a fall colors hike on the beautiful
Chippewa Moraine Segment.
The Venue
The Fall into the
Future event will be held at Beaver Creek Reserve (www.beavercreekreserve.org)
in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, about 12 miles east of Eau Claire. Beaver Creek
Reserve is a 360-acre facility operated by Friends of BCR and Eau Claire
County. The facility is bordered by the Eau Claire River and has miles of
hiking trails exploring upland woods, river bottom forests, wetlands and
savannas.
Lodging
Attendees
will have their choice of several lodging options:
(i) Hotels in Eau
Claire. The IAPTF has reserved a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn - Campus
(2703 Craig Rd., Eau Claire, WI 54701; 800-472-3297).
Meals
Meal registration is
closed.
The exception is
Saturday afternoon lunch, which will be served at the Chippewa Moraine Visitor
Center as part of the Chippewa Moraine Chapter's fall colors hike.
Activities • Guest-Speaker • Presentations
The focus of this event is discussing the future of
the Ice Age Trail and the IAPTF. We are pleased to welcome two distinguished
guest speakers to address this theme:
SHELVA A. NOBLES is
a Program Analyst with the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land
Management. Ms. Nobles researches and analyzes how the convergence of multiple
generations in the workplace affects an organization, and will speak about
connecting the various generations within the IAPTF.
DENISE MEREDITH is a former Bureau of Land Management employee who now runs her own consulting business. Ms. Meredith will speak about how the IAPTF can build relationships with diverse communities and cultures.
Discussions
Some of our discussion time will focus on issues covered by our guest speakers and how these issues affect the IAPTF, especially for the long term. We will also have time for general discussions skewed more to the near future, including idea-sharing on ways to work more effectively in the coming years. We hope that the discussions at the event will help identify long-range goals for the IAPTF and provide direction for the next strategic planning process to be taken up by the board of directors. Additionally, we hope this event will help deepen relationships between and within staff members, board members, chapter leaders and our Triad partners with the National Park Service and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Fall Colors Hike
On Saturday morning,
we will board buses at Beaver Creek Reserve and head to the Chippewa Moraine
Visitor Center near New Auburn. There, we will join the Chippewa Moraine
Chapter for their enjoyable fall colors hike.
Shuttles from the visitor center will take hikers to trailheads at varying distances from the visitor center and drop them off for a return hike on the Ice Age Trail. The Trail passes a remarkable number of kettle lakes in this area and highlights several other interesting Ice Age features as it passes through forested terrain. In the early afternoon, after lunch at the visitor center, we will board buses and return to Beaver Creek Reserve.
Other Activities
Beaver Creek Reserve offers a nature center, hiking trails and a two-dome
observatory with computer- operated telescopes.
Schedule
Friday, October 3rd
>8:00pm Check-in for those spending Friday night at BCR
Saturday, October
4th
7-8:15am Check-in
7:30-8:15am
Breakfast at BCR
8:30am-3:00pm Fall
colors hike, lunch at Chippewa Moraine Visitor Center
3:30-5:15pm
Discussion
5:30-6:45pm Dinner
at BCR
7-8pm Guest Speaker:
Shelva A. Nobles
8:15-9:30pm
Discussion
Sunday, October 5th
7:30-8:45am
Breakfast at BCR
9-10am Guest
Speaker: Denise Meredith
10:15-11:45am
Discussion
12-1pm Lunch at BCR
1pm Wrap-up,
thank-yous, departure