Workshop Presentations

Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program: Evaluation
and Roundtable
Dick Esseks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Robert Glennon, USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS)
Bob Wagner, American Farmland Trust

Soils and Stewardship Supersession: The Insiders' View to Making Better Land Use Decisions
Kip Kolesinskas and Shawn McVey, USDA NRCS,
Connecticut/Rhode Island

Opportunity Knocks: Protecting Farmland is a
Community Investment
Linda Hollis, Delaware, and Carl Mailler, American Farmland Trust

Farm Bill 101 - Why You Should Care: 2007 Farm Bill Session
Jimmy Daukas, Dennis Nuxoll and Joe Shultz, American
Farmland Trust

Healthy Landscapes, Parks and Living - Protected Areas, Food Producers and Communities Working Together
Brian LeCouteur, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Building Support and Finding Funding for Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easements (PACE) Programs
Cris Coffin, Gerry Cohn and Jiff Martin, American Farmland Trust

Planning a Future for Agriculture at the Town Level
Jesse Robertson-Dubois, American Farmland Trust
Leonard DeBuck, Warwick County, NY

Gauging Support for Innovative Preservation Techniques
Josh Duke, University of Delaware, and Lori Lynch,
University of Maryland

Your Land is Your Legacy: Estate and Transition Planning and Farm Transfer
Megan O'Neil-Haight, Maryland Cooperative Extension

Farmland Protection and New Enterprises for Farm
and Community
Jeanine Davis, North Carolina State University, and Daniel O'Leary, Old Dominion University

Protecting a Strategic Land Base
Bob Wagner, American Farmland Trust

Next Generation of Growth Management and
Farmland Protection
Julia Freedgood, American Farmland Trust, and David Rouse, Wallace, Roberts and Todd
Billy Van Pelt, Purchase of Development Rights Program, Kentucky

New Tools for Cost-Effective Farmland Conservation
William Allen, The Conservation Fund, and Kent Messer, Cornell University

Statewide Planning for Agriculture in Maryland
and New Jersey
Susan Craft, New Jersey Department of Agriculture
Doug Green, Maryland Agricultural Commission, and Kevin Schmidt, American Farmland Trust

Department of Defense Protecting the American Landscape
Nancy Natoli, Logistics Management Institute (LMI)