PRELIMINARY AGENDA

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2008
2 to 4 p.m. Green Tour of Staunton – low impact development, open space conservation and historic preservation sites; participants
meet in the Stonewall Jackson Hotel lobby at 1:45
4 to 5 p.m. Tom Hylton, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of Save Our Land, Save Our Towns
5 to 5:30 p.m. Better Models for Development awards ceremony
5:30 p.m. Reception hosted by Valley Conservation Council
6:30 p.m. to Dine Around Staunton
(as late as you like) Reservations have been made for tables at four Staunton restaurants. Pick your restaurant and join other land trust folks
for an evening of fun and getting to know your colleagues! Participants will meet in the Stonewall Jackson Hotel lobby at
6:15. See registration form for more information.

THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2008
8:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. VaULT breakfast and meeting
9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Alternative for VaULT members’ family and friends: Tour of downtown Staunton with Historic Staunton Foundation
Director Frank Strassler
12 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Lunch: Keynote speaker Governor Timothy M. Kaine
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Concurrent sessions
Session A: Is Accreditation Right for Your Land Trust? – Tammara Van Ryn, Land Trust Accreditation Commission
Session B: Managing Conservation Easements for Perpetuity (Part I) – Jesica Blake, Laurel Florio, Leslie Ratley-Beach,
LTA faculty, and Martha Little, VOF Director of Stewardship
3:30 to 5 p.m. Concurrent sessions
Session C: What to Look for in Conservation Easement Appraisals – Phil Hocker, Conservation Credit Pool, and Terry
Dunkin, Appraisal Institute
Session D: Managing Conservation Easements for Perpetuity (Part II)
6:30 p.m. Reception and banquet at the Frontier Culture Museum

FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2008
7:30 to 8:45 a.m. Networking breakfast with speaker Larry Durbin, Assistant Commissioner, Va. Dept. of Tax
9 to 10:30 p.m. Concurrent sessions
Session E: Avoiding Conflicts of Interest and Running an Ethical Land Trust (Part I) – Jeff Fisher, Manager, Unique
Places LLC, and David Harper, Conservation Services Project Manager, Unique Places LLC
Session F: Conservation Financing Techniques – Reggie Hall, The Conservation Fund, and Tom Gilbert,
Trust for Public Land
11 to 12:30 p.m. Concurrent sessions
Session G: Avoiding Conflicts of Interest and Running an Ethical Land Trust (Part II)
Session H: Strategic Conservation – Kyle Copas, LandScope; Jason Bulluck, DCR Natural Heritage; and John Foster,
Piedmont Environmental Council
12:45 to 1:45 p.m. Lunch with speaker Mike Strugar, Director, Conservation Resource Center
2 to 3:30 p.m. Concurrent sessions
Session I: Innovative Land Management Tools: Wetlands Banking – Greg Olson, The Nature Conservancy; David Davis,
DEQ; and Carbon Sequestration Credits – speaker TBA
Session J: Marketing Your Land Trust: Media Relations, Press Releases and Lobbying – David Perry, Western Virginia
Land Trust; Heather Richards, Piedmont Environmental Council; and Beth Obenshain, New River Land Trust