Session 1
Presentation: Forest integrity and fragmentation (PDF Handout)
Activity 1:
- Analyst & Architect
- Relationship Master
- Spontaneous Motivator
- Drivers
- Leadership Self-Eval/Profile (PDF)
Case study explorer
- Landscape Change Program (Website)
- New England Landscape Futures (Website)
- 4th National Climate Assessment (Website)
- Vermont Climate Action Plan
- Vermont Community Resilience Index
- Recreation and Wildlife (PDF)
- Managing Land For Habitat Video (Video 49 minutes)
Homework 1:
- VT Landscape History (Video 23 minutes)
- Community profile (PDF)
- Recreation and Wildlife (Optional) (Video 81 minutes)
- Leadership Styles follow-up. Paying attention to your style and others'
Session 2
Presentation: Seeing the world at the landscape scale. (PDF Handout)
Presentation: Seeing the world at the species & community scale. (PDF Handout)
Case study explorer:
- Rt 12 and SCI's multi-pronged approach (Storymap)
- Wolcott Floodplain Restoration & Wildlife Shelf (Storymap)
- Conserving VT Natural Heritage
- Shutesville Hill Wildlife Road Crossing (Storymap)
- D.E.C Tactical Basin Planning (Storymap)
- Landowner Interview (Video 5 minutes)
- VT Coverts (Website)
Activity 2: Tips and Tools in using BioFinder (PDF)
Homework 2:
- Group Development Exercise (PDF)
- Using ACCD Planning Atlas (PDF)& the Municipal Planning Data Center
- What is Vermont Conservation Design (Storymap)
Session 3
Presentation: Planning for Whole Communities (PDF Handout)
Case Study Explorer
- Science to Action Project (Storymap)
- Bolton Town Plan & Zoning Update (Storymap)
- Inventory
- South Burlington (PDF)
- Mad River Valley (PDF)
- Richmond, Jericho, Bolton, Huntington- Science to Action (PDF)
- Climate Change and Land Use Planning (PDF)
- Citizens Guides to VT Government (PDFs)
- “Isn’t This My Land” An Introduction to Planning and Zoning in Vermont (PDF)
- Community Planning Toolbox (Website)
- About Regional Planning Commissions (Storymap)
Activity 3, Role Play
Group Summaries
- Planning Commission (PDF)
- Conservation Commission (PDF)
- Citizen Group #1 (PDF)
- Citizen Group #2 (PDF)