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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Robert H. Smith Centerat Montalto

Charlottesville, Virginia

Open to the Public

Climate Change

in Virginia 

Learning to Adapt

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8:30-9:15 a.m. Buses rom Monticello Parking Lot to Montalto  Registration and Coffee 

9:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks   Ann Gordon Evans  President 

Garden Club of Virginia 

Anne Irving & Tuckie Westfall

Co-ChairmenConservation Forum

9:40 a.m. Global Overview o Climate Change  Robert Tally 

President   Talley & Associates, Inc.

10:10 a.m. Sea Level Rise Adaptation  Skip Stiles

Executive Director    Wetlands Watch

10:40 a.m. Planning or Wildlie in a Changing ClimateChris BurkettWildlie Action Plan Coordinator Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries

Climate Change

in Virginia Learning to Adapt

Cover photo: Norolk Botanical Garden’s Green Roo by Roy A. Bahls / The Virginia Pilot 

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11:10 a.m. Gardening in an Era o Climate ChangeAustin KanePolicy Specialist National Wildlife Federation

11:40 a.m. Presentation o the Elizabeth Cabell DugdaleAward or Meritorious Achievement in ConservationAnne Beals

  Conservation and Beautifcation Committee Chairman

  Garden Club of Virginia 11:55 a.m. Remarks  Susan Stein  Richard Gilder  Senior Curator and Vice President o  

 Museum Programs Thomas Jefferson Foundation

12:15 p.m. Lunch at Montalto

1:00 p.m. Buses depart or Monticello

1:20 p.m. Guided Tours   Mulberry Row Restoration Project o the GCV 

Monticello House Thomas Jeerson’s Vegetable GardenVisitors Center 

3:00 p.m. Ofcial Program Ends

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Chris Burkett works or the Virginia Department o Gameand Inland Fisheries and serves as Virginia’s Wildlie ActionPlan Coordinator. Wildlie Action Plans are the nation’s coreprogram to prevent species rom becoming endangered.Burkett’s career has ocused on the social, economic, andpolicy aspects o natural resource management and hiscurrent duties involve working with agency personnel and

partners to identiy opportunities to implement proactive wildlie conservation.Burkett also participates in a variety o regional and national eorts related to climatechange, strategic planning, project data management, and program eectivenessmeasures. Previously, Burkett worked or the Wyoming Game and Fish Departmentas a social scientist and planner. Burkett has worked extensively with the U.S. Fishand Wildlie Service and the Association o Fish and Wildlie Agencies to evaluate,promote, and help implement the National Wildlie Action Plan program. Burkettearned his bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences rom the University o Alabamaand earned his master’s degree in Geography rom the University o Wyoming.

Austin Kane is a Science and Policy Manager or the NationalWildlie Federation’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Center. Her workocuses on saeguarding wildlie and plants rom climatechange. Austin also works with sh and wildlie agenciesand other partners to integrate climate change into StateWildlie Action Plans. She has worked on the National WildlieFederation eorts related to gardening in an era o climate

change. Austin also specializes in coastal climate change related eorts, such as

developing climate-smart guidance or coastal projects and building state capacity toaddress climate change. Prior to joining the Federation, she worked as a Science andPolicy Analyst with the Environmental Law Institute and as an Assistant ConservationPlanner or the Hawaii Division o Aquatic Resources. Austin has a master’s degree inEnvironmental Management rom Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in Biologyrom the University o Virginia. Currently, she lives in Richmond, Virginia, with herhusband, young son, and yellow lab. Like his parents, her son already has a love ogardening, especially picking and eating cucumbers.

SPECIAL THANKS  to the Garden Club of Virginia Staff Members; Lynn McCashin-

Executive Director, Ann Heller-Communications Coordinator, Karmen Gustin-Director of 

Development, the Garden Club of Virginia Conservation Committee Members, Sarah

Bridenhagen-Charlottesville Liaison, Susan Stein and Natasha Sienitski, Thomas Jefferson

Foundation, Don Westfall Editing and Corporate Visions, Inc., Design.

Austin Kane

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The Garden Club o Virginia is an active association o orty-seven garden clubs, whose

members collectively orm a group o more than 3,300 civic leaders rom around the

Commonwealth. To accomplish our mission, the GCV sponsors three sanctioned fower

shows annually, presents various educational programs, and makes monetary awards to

encourage community conservation and beautication projects. Historic Garden Week in

Virginia, a statewide house and garden tour held each spring, raises unds or restoring or

preserving historic public grounds and landscapes.

The Conservation and Beautication Committee was instituted in 1921 as the Garden Club

o Virginia’s rst ormal committee. A statewide campaign to end the wholesale cutting

and decimation o Virginia’s native holly and laurel was a rst project. Over the course o

nine decades, GCV has been instrumental in saeguarding Rockbridge County’s Goshen

Pass rom harmul development, helped secure the National Blue Ridge Park or Virginia,

helped restore portions o the Great Dismal Swamp, planted thousands o trees across the

state, encouraged stricter strip mining regulations and raised awareness on the need or

curbside container recycling. Protecting natural landscapes along Virginia’s highways rom

the blight o billboards and litter has been an ongoing eort since our inception.

The Garden Club o Virginia exists to celebrate the beauty o the land, to conserve the gits o  nature and to challenge uture generations to build on this heritage.

Kent-Valentine House

12 East Franklin Street

Richmond, VA 23219

 www.gcvirginia.org 

The Dugdale Award 

The Elizabeth Cabell Dugdale Award or Meritorious Achievement in Conservationwas rst presented in 1974, and in 1989 was named or Mrs. Arthur A. Dugdale othe Ashland Garden Club, an outstanding member o the GCV who originated theConservation Forum. It is presented to an organization, industry or an individual who

is not a GCV member or outstanding work in conservation.

Past Recipients of the Dugdale Award 

2012 Lynnhaven River Now

2011 Alliance to Save the Mattaponi

2010 Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.

2008 Stanley G. Breakell and Robert G. Burnley

2007 Union Bank and Trust

2006 Miranda Bryant Strutton

2005 William H. Harrison

2004 Dr. Charles K. Price and Robert A. S. Wright

2003 The Friends o the Shenandoah

2002 Dimon, Incorporated

2001 Nancy Ross Hugo

2000 Georgie Hughes Morgan