Alliance for the Cumberlands

4^th Annual Conference:

Celebrations and Challenges

February 23, 2008

Agenda

 

8:30 - 9:00  Continental Breakfast and Registration

 

9:00 Welcome by Stuart Carroll, Fall Creek Falls

 

9:10-9:30 Keynote Presentation—Tennessee State Heritage Areas by Mark Tummons

 

Morning Session:  Celebration of successes throughout the Cumberland Plateau

 

9:30-10:15 Concurrent Session 1

Speakers:

Lee Curtis, Department of Tourist Development

James Taylor, Friends of Big South Fork

 

10:15-10:30 Break

 

10:30-11:15 Concurrent Session 2

Speakers:

Will Robbins, Borderlands Foundation

Paul Archambault, Southeast Tennessee Development District, Historic Preservation Planner

 

11:15-12:00 Concurrent Session 3

Speakers:

Bobby Fulcher, Cumberland Trail State Park

Jon Evans, University of the South at Sewanee

 

12:00-1:00  Lunch  Chuck Womack, President of the Alliance for the Cumberlands—Alliance Business Meeting

 

Afternoon Session:  Addressing our Challenges

 

1:00-1:30 Mike Carlton, Assistant Commissioner of TDEC—Operating in a fiscally restrictive environment

 

1:30-2:00  Clint Strohmeier, Division of Forestry—Threat of Invasives on the Cumberland Plateau and how you can help.

 

2:00-2:15 Break

 

2:15-2:45 Dan Brown, TN Preservation Trust—Structures of the Plateau that are in peril

 

2:45-3:15 Kathleen Williams, Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation—Dedicated Conservation Fund for Tennessee

 

3:15-3:45 Bill Jones, Trail of Tears Association—Challenges and status of the Trail of Tears

 

Evaluations and Adjourn

 

Special Thanks to our Lunch Sponsors:

 

Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce

Crossville-Cumberland County Chamber of Commerce
Fentress County Chamber of Commerce

Friends of Fall Creek Falls State Park

Marion County Chamber of Commerce

Morgan County Chamber of Commerce

Van Buren County Chamber of Commerce