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Governance by the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee

The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee sustains the integrity of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve with policies, guidelines, planning, stewardship, and management designed to ensure that these natural communities and cultural landscapes will pass unimpaired to future generations.

Committee agendas and minutes

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Benchmark documents

Over the course of the Preserve's forty-year history, several key reports have been produced that are invaluable for anyone seeking to understand the history of the Preserve. We have gathered the most important of these together, all downloadable as PDF files.

Visit the Benchmark Documents in the History of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve webpage

Please remember that these are the original historic reports, created in response to particular circumstances at particular moments in time. As a general rule, later documents supersede earlier ones in articulating university policy for the Lakeshore Nature Preserve.

Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee

The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee sustains the integrity of the Preserve with policies, guidelines, planning, stewardship, and management designed to ensure that these natural communities and cultural landscapes will pass unimpaired to future generations. The committee meets throughout the year.

Academic staff and faculty are appointed for a three-year term, with a maximum of two terms.

Committee Chair

Bill Barker
barker@geology.wisc.edu

Committee Members, 2009-10

Voting:

  • Donald Waller--faculty (2nd term ends July 2010)
  • Sissel Schroeder--faculty (1st term ends July 2011)
  • Katrina Forest--faculty (1st term ends July 2012)
  • Susan Will-Wolf--academic staff (2nd term ends July 2012)
  • Bill Barker--academic staff (1st term ends July 2010)
  • Elsa Althen--academic staff (1st term ends July 2011)
  • Alyssa Offutt--student (annual ASM appointment)
  • Anne Readel--student (annual ASM appointment)
  • Josh Donaldson--student (annual ASM appointment)

Non-voting ex-officio or consultants

  • Kris Ackerbauer, ex officio, FPM
  • Kennedy Gilchrist, ex officio, Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve
  • Rhonda James, consultant, FPM
  • Kevin McSweeney, ex officio, UW Arboretum
  • Laura Shere, ex officio, Eagle Heights Apartments

Committee Members, 2008-09

Voting:

  • Ray Guries (faculty/chair-2011)
  • Mark Renz {Donald Waller on sabbatical} (faculty-2010)
  • Sissel Schroeder(faculty-2011)
  • Susan Will-Wolf (academic staff-2009)
  • William Barker (academic staff-2010)
  • Elsa Althen (academic staff-2011)
  • Hyeon-Kyeong Park (student-annual)
  • Eric Rieth (student-annual)
  • Andrew Thorson (student-annual)

Non-voting ex-officio or consultants

  • Kris Ackerbauer, ex officio, FPM
  • Ann Burgess, ex officio, Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve
  • Rhonda James, consultant, FPM
  • Kevin McSweeney, ex officio, UW Arboretum
  • Laura Shere, ex officio, Eagle Heights Apartments

Committee Members, 2007-08

Voting:

  • Ray Guries (faculty/chair)
  • Donald Waller (faculty)
  • Janet Silbernagel (faculty)
  • Robert Bohanan (acdemic staff)
  • Susan Will-Wolf (academic staff)
  • William Barker (academic staff)
  • Zachary Hirschtritt (student)
  • Lars Higdon (student)
  • Travis Tennessen (student)

Non-voting ex-officio or consultants

  • Kris Ackerbauer, ex officio, FPM
  • Ann Burgess, ex officio, Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve
  • Rhonda James, consultant, FPM
  • Kevin McSweeney, ex officio, UW Arboretum
  • Laura Shere, ex ofifcio, Eagle Heights Apartments

Committee Members, 2006-07

Voting:

  • Ray Guries, (faculty/chair)
  • Donald Waller (faculty)
  • Janet Silbernagel (faculty)
  • Janet Hornback (acdemic staff)
  • Robert Bohanan (acdemic staff)
  • Susan Will-Wolf (acdemic staff)
  • Rebecca Kagle (student)
  • Alexander Hitch (student)
  • Travis Tennessen(student)

Non-voting ex-officio or consultants

  • Kris Ackerbauer, ex officio,FPM
  • Gary Brown, consultant,FPM
  • Kevin McSweeney, ex officio,UW Arboretum

 

 

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