| Personnel of the
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and Tennessee Department of
Environment & Conservation are preparing to co-host the Fifth
Annual Meeting of the Lower Mississippi River Conservation
Committee. A $20 registration fee will be charged for the meeting
which will be held April 14-15, 1998 at the Holiday Inn Memphis
East in Memphis, Tennessee.
Steve Ellis and Steve Cobb of the Mississippi Valley Division
of the Army Corps of Engineers will be the guest speakers at the
1998 LMRCC meeting. Their topics of discussion will be the Corps
of Engineers Mississippi River Master Plan and the potential for
integrating aquatic resource restoration activities into it. Ted
Crowell will discuss the essential components of the LMRCC Aquatic
Resource Management Plan and the need to integrate them into the
Corps’ Master Plan process. An open forum will be conducted on
how the LMRCC Aquatic Resource Management Plan Committee can
interface effectively with the Corps of Engineers during
development of the Master Plan.
Fisheries and Water Quality Technical Section meetings will
begin at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, and run through the end
of the day. Dinner Tuesday night will be at one Memphis’
world-famous barbeque meccas. The LMRCC Executive Committee
Meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, April 15.
Any participant wishing to make a presentation at the annual
meeting should submit a one page summary to the Lower Mississippi
River Conservation Committee Coordinator no later than March 14,
1998.
Room rates at the Holiday Inn Memphis East are $79.00 all
inclusive. Call 1-800-465-4329 no later than March 27, 1998 for
reservations and identify yourself as a LMRCC meeting attendee.
For more information on the meeting, contact Ron Nassar, LMRCC
Coordinator (601-629-6602), Robert Todd, Fishery Biologist,
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (615-781-6575, or John
Leonard, Program Administrator, Tennessee Department of
Environmental & Conservation (615-532-0225).
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