For more information contact UAS Information Officer Kevin Myers at 796-6530 or by email.

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April 15, 2004
Development verses Environment; Finding the Middle Ground

The University of Alaska Southeast and the Arctic Research Consortium of the US are hosting Professor Mark Williams of the University of Colorado, Boulder to lecture on land use and watershed policies. The talk will be held in the Egan Lecture Hall on Monday, April 19th starting at 7:30.

Williams’s research in Telluride Colorado has helped to apply best management practices to prevent degradation of headwater catchments while providing for reasonable economic and recreational activities. Using Williams’s research, San Miguel County Commissioners adopted land use codes to restrict development, including an 800-sqft building footprint, and to ban septic systems and winter plowing.
 
Williams’s lecture will focus on the issues that arise in a location where traditional economic interests, recreational users, and environmentalists all converge with separate agendas in the creation of land use policy. He will look at the role of science and community response in the process.

Contacts:
Eran Hood, UAS Assistant Professor of Environmental Science:  465-8449
Kevin Myers:  796-6530
Phone interviews can be arranged upon request.

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