**["Locally Led Conservation; Diverse Districts/Common
Goals]{.underline}"**

**[Colorado Association of Conservation Districts 64^th^ Annual
Meeting]{.underline}**

**[November 17 -- 20, 2008, Rocky Mountain Conference Center, Estes
Park, Colorado\
Draft agenda August 2008 / For details see: www.cacd.us]{.underline}**

[**\
**Monday (Nov. 17):]{.underline}

10:00 a.m. -- 6:00 **SWCS Meeting** ("Impact of Energy Development on
Soil and Water Resources")

> (Coalbed Methane; Energy Dev on Public Lands; (Lunch buffet)
>
> (All are invited by SWCS; \$fee\$)

11:00 -- 1:00 **Joint CACD & CSCB Board Meetings** (Lunch buffet)

1:00 -- 5:00 **CACD Board Meeting** (Big Horn)

1:00 -- 5:00 **CSCB Board Meeting** (Blue Spruce)\
4:00 -- 6:00 Early registration -- Prefunction Area\
5:00 -- 7:00 **Resolutions Committees Meeting\
**7:00 -- 7:30 Annual Meeting **Moderators** Workshop\
7:00 -- 9:00 **Getting to know you** cash **bar social gathering**

[Tuesday (Nov. 18):]{.underline}

7:00 a.m. Registration Opens / Prefunction Area\
7:00 a.m. Exhibit Hall Opens/ Lobby

7:30 -- 8:30 **First Timer Meeting** (Big Horn/Blue Spruce)

8:30 -- Noon **Policy Development Meeting Resolutions** Review

10:15-10:30 Break

Noon **Lunch on Your Own**\
Noon -- 1:00 **District Manager Appreciation Lunch**

1:00 -- 2:30 **Opening Session**\
-Color Guard/Pledge of Allegiance

> -Invocation\
> **-Comments** by Eric Jessen CACD President / Introduction of Speaker
> **\
> ** -**Commissioner John Stulp**, CO Dept of Ag **Year in Review**
>
> \-**NACD Update** (Confirmed, Keira Franz, NACD Washington
> DC/Legislation)
>
> \-**Motivational Speaker** (Richard Fagerlin, invited)

1:00 **Silent Auction** Opens

1:00 **Poster and Photo Contest** Begins

3:00 -- 5:00 **Auxiliary Meeting** (Lake Estes)\
2:30 -- 3:00 Break

3:00 -- 4:00 General Session (Brian / Brian Starkebaum- Moderator)

> \-**Justice Greg Hobbs** (confirmed) "**Colorado 21^st^ Century
> Water"**
>
> \-**Meghan Sittler**, **National Drought Mitigation Center**

4:00 -- 4:15 Break\
4:15 -- 5:30 **Showcase Conservation District Weed Management, (Costilla
CD Project)\
-Kelly Uhing, Colorado Weed Coordinator, and Mike Riggirozzi**
(Invited)\
-Question and Answer

5:30 -- 7:30 **Dinner on your own**\
5:30 -- 7:30 **Grazing Land Conservation Initiative Committee Meeting**

5:30 -- 7:30 **CO District BSPP Steering Committee**, Eric Jessen,
Moderator\
5:30 -- 7:30 **District Employees Only Meeting**

7:30 -- 8:30 **Social Hour** (Ballrooms E and F)

8:00 -- 8:30 **Live Auction,** Auctioneer - (Ballrooms E and F)

8:30 -- 11:00 **Social evening; Entertainment; Theme: Luau** (Pool
Atrium)

[Wednesday (Nov. 19):]{.underline}

7:00 a.m. Registration Opens -- Prefunction area\
8:00 -- 9:30 **Farm Bill** (Post rulemaking discussion)\
-Farm Bill -- Conservation Title of the Farm Bill, Tim Carney (invited)\
-Rural Development -- (Mike Bennett)\
-CRP Grazing / Lewis Frank, FSA\
-Brian Starkebaum, CACD\
-Question and Answer

9:30 -- 9:50 Break

9:50 -- 11:00 **Legislative Training**, Legislative Briefing Jeani
Frickey,\
9:50 -- 10:30 **Showcase Conservation District Education Work**
(Ballrooms A, B, C)\
-Small Acreage Education, Ft. Morgan CD, Val Loose\
-Conservation Education Today, Rio Grande Watershed, Judy Lopez

10:30 -- 11:00 Break\
10:30 Poster and Photo Contest ends

11:00 -- 12:15 General discussion / **Proposed Irrigation Rules/ Water**
(Ballrooms A, B, C)

> Panel discussion with Commissioner Stulp, Steve Witte (State
> Engineer's Office\
> Representative; Allen Green, George Fosha and other panel members\
> Open to general discussion by conservation districts and questions

12:30 -- 2:30 **Awards Luncheon** Ballrooms, (D, E, F)

2:30 -- 3:00 BREAK\
3:00 -- 4:15 Roundtable open discussion; what is important in your
district in **Powers of Partnerships**

> (Kick off roundtable by Baca CD, Misty George/ DOW, RMBO, USDA)

3:00 -- 4:15 Roundtable open discussion; what is important in your
district in **Renewable Energy**\
(Kick off roundtable; Bent CD Wind Energy Presentation; Tony Frank
(invited)

3:00 -- 4:15 Roundtable open discussion; what is important in your
district in **Resource Extraction**\
(Invite to sit in on roundtable Ron Catany or Loretta Pineda; Oil and
Gas industry invited)\
3:00 -- 4:15 Roundtable open discussion; what is important in your
district in **Forest Health/Management** (Invited to sit in on
roundtable Greg Sundstrom /and Jan Hackett, invited. (Please remember to
visit the Silent Auction before it closes at 5:00 p.m.)

4:30 -- 5:30 **District Supervisors** Only Roundtable Discussion/
Moderators Petra Barnes/Monty Smith\
(Carry over into 5:30 p.m. networking session if needed)

4:30 -- 5:30 **District Employees** Business Meeting

> (Carry over into 5:30 p.m. networking session if needed)

4:30 -- 5:30 **Partners Networking Appreciation Session** / Light
appetizers / beverages\
(A thank you to the partners by the conservation districts; "we could
not do it without you."

5:00 p.m. Silent Auction Closes\
5:30 -- 6:30 **Open Networking**; Exhibit Hall/Conference Center (Have
material present) (Lobby) (30 exh)

6:30 -- 9:15 **Banquet** Ballrooms D, E, F (225)

> Invocation / JD Wright\
> Dinner / 6:30 -- 7:30 pm
>
> Awards Presentation / 7:30 pm -- 8:30 pm\
> Camp Rocky Range Science Presentation / Entertainment

[Thursday (Nov. 20):]{.underline}

8:00 a.m -- Noon **CACD General Assembly Business Meeting**

8:00 -- 4:00 **RC&D** all day meeting

8:00 -- Noon **NRCS** meeting

1:00 -- 3:00 **CACD Board Meeting** and **Election of Officers**