Restoring Greenspace conference

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Major Environmental Policy Leaders to Open Wildlife Habitat Council Conference!

Restoring Greenspace:
Using Ecological Enhancements at Regions 2 & 3 Contaminated Sites
June 23-24, 2004
Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue

http://www.wildlifehc.org/events/restoringgreenspace.cfm
<mailto:greenspace@wildlifehc.org>
Register today ? Agenda now online!

The Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) works with its member companies and
conservation groups on voluntarily enhancing properties for wildlife
habitat benefits and promotes the inclusion of ecological enhancements
as part of site restoration. Both the environment and economy will
benefit greatly if ecological enhancements could be included in cleanup
and restoration programs on a more systematic and efficient basis.

WHC has made significant progress in achieving these goals through a
series of conferences. The first three conferences were designed to
discuss the barriers and develop strategies associated with the
implementation of ecological enhancements on contaminated lands. The
?white paper? entitled ?Making the Case for Ecological Enhancements? was
generated by participants to highlight the benefits, relevant
considerations and implementation standards used in the development of
ecological enhancements.

 Moving to the regional level, WHC is promoting on-the-ground measures
and developing demonstration sites to increase the use of ecological
enhancements in restoration efforts. We are using the conference in
Philadelphia, June 23-24, 2004, to promote this effort and we hope you
can participate.

Who should attend? Individual Landowners, Corporate Landowners ? Project
Managers, Corporate Remediation Managers, Service Providers, Technology
Vendors, and Consultants, Local, State and Federal Regulators, Community
Groups and Environmental Groups.

As background, for the past three summers, WHC organized and hosted
meetings of industry, government and conservation organizations to
promote the inclusion of ecological enhancements as part of site
restoration programs in Superfund, RCRA Corrective Action and
Brownfields. Some key results of the conferences are the creation of an
Objectives and Action Agenda that presents a set of recommendations and
strategies to an assembled audience of key stakeholders in industry,
government and the conservation community on how to implement this
concept more efficiently.

Also, WHC entered in cooperative agreements with EPA?s OSWER and OUST to
implement the recommendations of the Objectives and Action Agenda. The
first regional conference outside Chicago was highly successful and
focused on the implementation of ecological enhancements at the local
level. Proceedings of all the conferences are posted online at
http://www.wildlifehc.org/events/rcra.cfm.

The Wildlife Habitat Council is a nonprofit, non-lobbying organization
dedicated to increasing the quality and amount of wildlife habitat on
corporate, private and public lands. WHC devotes its resources to
building partnerships with corporations and conservation groups to
create solutions that balance the demands of economic growth with the
requirements of a healthy, bio-diverse and sustainable environment.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org