Friday, October 1

The Mono Inn @ Mono Lake

Lake View Room

1:00 - 1:30 Press Conference

1:30 - 2:30 Opening of Living Lakes Conference and Second World Lakes Day

Moderator: James Stock, Board Member, Global Nature Fund

Living Lakes Project: Prof. Gerhard Thielcke, President, GNF

International Sponsors:

Dr. Martin Roth, EXPO 2000

Anne Weir, UNILEVER, Global Partner of Living Lakes

Fanyana Shiburi, Daimler Chrysler

Compaq, Lufthansa, Deutsche Budesstiftung Umwelt

Welcome from the State of California: Art Baggett, Board Member,

State Water Resources Control Board

Second World Lakes Day Proclamation:

LA City Councilwoman Ruth Galanter (invited)

Mono Lake Committee: Frances Spivy-Weber

2:30-3:00 Presentation on Living Lakes: Ulf Doerner, GNF

3:00-3:30 Keynote: Patrick Wright, Deputy Secretary for Policy Development,

The Resources Agency, State of California

Introduction: Ed Manning, Co-chair MLC or Martha Davis, Board, MLC

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-4:30 Best Conservation Practices Awards

Presentor: Dr. Thomas Feske, VP, GNF

Recipients:

Marc Del Piero

Phil Isenberg

Andrea Lawrence

Rick Lehman

Credo Mutwa

Lou Thompson (slides/15 minutes)

4:30-5:00 Utilizing Satellite Technology in Conservation Work:

Dr. Franz Jaskolla, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, Germany

 

Saturday, October 2, 1999

U.S. Forest Service Visitors' Center Auditorium

Facilitator for the Day and Opening Remarks: Ed Manning, Co-chair MLC Board

8:55 Welcome to the Forest Service Visitors Center

[open]

9:00 Keynote

Credo Mutwa, South Africa

9:30-10:30 Panel and discussion

Topic: Strength in Partnerships. The roles that Scientific, Economic, Political and NGO partnerships play in protecting water resources.

Panel Moderator:

Marc Del Piero, Former Member State Water Resources Control Board

Panelists:

• Martha Davis, Executive Director, Californians and the Land, Board

Member and past Executive Director, Mono Lake Committee

• Duane Ono, Great Basin Air Pollution Control Board
• Peter Vorster, Hydrologist, The Bay Institute and Mono Lake Committee
• Ted Floyd, Breeding Bird Atlas Coordinator, Great Basin Bird Observatory
• Rick Lehman, Attorney and Former Congressman

10:30-11:00 Living Lakes Recess

Tables where representatives from partner lakes can be available for questions and to give out materials. Other information available as well.

11:00-12:00 Panel and discussion

Topic: Sustainable Communities. Balancing resource protection with economic and social well-being.

Panel Moderator: Andrea Lawrence, MLC Board Member, past Mono

County Board of Supervisors

Panelists:

• Peter Kavounas, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
• Byng Hunt, current Mono County Board of Supervisors
• Ade Adeniji, President, ADRO, Inc., Los Angeles
• Marion Hammerl, Lake Constance
• Dr. Nina Dagbaeva, Lake Baikal

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30-6:00 Two 2-hour Field Trips (repeated twice in the afternoon: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.)

Lundy Canyon: led by Dave Marquart

Creek Tour: led by Peter Vorster

6:30 Optional: MLC slide show on Saving Mono Lake or video, "The Battle

for Mono Lake," at the MLC Information Center and Bookstore.

Sunday, October 3

U.S. Forest Service Visitors' Center Auditorium

Facilitator for the Day and Opening Remarks: Sally Gaines, Co-chair of the Board of Directors, Mono Lake Committee

9:30 - 10:30 Panel and discussion

Topic: Economic Development and Restoration

Panel Moderator: Phil Isenberg

Panelists:

• Anne Weir, Living Lakes Global Partner, UNILEVER
• Nancy Boman, President, Lee Vining Chamber of Commerce
• Greg Newberry, Senior Planner, Mono County (invited)
• Nelson Mathews, Trust for Public Land
• Dr. Michael Green, Norfolk Broads, England

10:30-11:00 Living Lakes Recess

Tables where representatives from partner lakes will be available for

Questions and to give out materials.

11:00 - 12:00 Panel and discussion

Topic: The Living Lakes Network

Panel moderator:

Udo Gattenlohner, GNF

Panelists:

• South African representative, Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park
• Hans Jerrentrup, EPO, Greek representative, Nestos Lakes
• Dr. Masahisa Nakamura, Director, Lake Biwa Research Institute, Japan
• Fernando Jubete, Fundacion Global Nature Espana

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-6:00 Two 2-hour Field Trips (repeated twice 1:30-3:30 and 4:00 - 6:00)

Diversions Facilities Tour with DWP

South Tufa Tour: the Carles and Nancy Upham

6:30 MLC slide show or video

8:00 Star Talk at South Tufa or US Forest Service Visitors' Center

END of Public Part of the Conference