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Massachusetts Rail Trails:
Linking Together 2008
Agenda
Saturday September 13, 2008
Doyle Conservation Center
464 Abbott Road, Leominster, MA
9:30 –10:00 Registration and Gather
10:00 –10:10 Welcome by Craig Della Penna and an overview of recent happenings in the world of rail trail development around the state—from the Berkshires to Cape Cod.
10:10 –10:25 Update by Eric Weis Update on all the trail segments that make up the East Coast Greenways alignment in Massachusetts. [Border to Boston, Northern Strand, Boston proper, MCRT, and Blackstone Valley projects]
[5 minutes at the end for Q&A]
10:30 –11:00 Tom Michelman and Craig Della Penna on Why There Might be a Need for a State-Wide Umbrella Organization.
[10 minutes at the end for Q&A]
11:10 –11:45 Andy Greene and Tom Kelleher Pluses and minus of developing a state-wide umbrella or other state-wide organization.
[15 minutes at end for Q&A]
12:00 – 1:00 Catered lunch and networking time
1:00 - 1:30 Richard Sullivan, Commissioner Mass Department of Conservation and Recreation on An Update About DCR projects and initiatives.
1:30 – 2:00 Paulina Knibbe on Presentation of Statewide Rail Trail Organization Web Accessible Database
[15 minutes at end for Q&A]
2:15-2:45 Dick Williamson on What a state-wide umbrella or coalition might look like using examples from around the U.S and eastern Canadian Provinces.
[15 minutes at end for Q&A]
3:00 – 3:30 Final Thoughts, Actions and Adjourn.
3::30 --?? Andrea Freeman leads a tour of the Doyle Conservation Center.
Presenters and their affiliations.
Craig Della Penna, Executive Director, Northeast Greenway Solutions
Andy Greene, President, Wayside Rail Trail segment of the MassCentral Rail Trail
Tom Kelleher, President, Assabet River Rail Trail, Inc.
Paulina Knibbe, Member, Friends of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail
Tom Michelman, President, Friends of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail
Eric Weis, New England Trail Coordinator for the East Coast Greenway Alliance
Dick Williamson, Sudbury Board Member for Friends of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail and representative of the MassCentral Rail Trail
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