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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Time	Topic/Event	Speakers	Location
8:30 - 9:00	Registration	-	Guadalupe Veteran's Memorial Building
8:50 - 9:00	Welcome Address	Rey Monge, California State Parks	Guadalupe Veteran's Memorial Building
Keynote Opening Message
9:00 - 9:20	Dunes Collaborative Overview and History	Kathie Matsuyama, Dunes Center	Guadalupe Veteran's Memorial Building
Session 1 - Field Trips
9:30-12:00	Chumash Ethnobotany Birds Field Trip #3	Jan Timbrook Greg Smith TBA	Oso Flaco Lake
Lunch
12:00-12:45	Deli Lunch	-	Guadalupe Veteran's Memorial Building
Session 3 - Presentations
12:45-4:00	Paradise Beach Acquisition Chumash Ethnobotany The Dunites: History, Anecdotes,Folklore and Mystique Plants of the Dunes Chumash Storytelling	Bob Hill, Land Conservancy of SLO Jan Timbrook Norm Hammond Jenny Langford Monique Sonoquie	Guadalupe Veteran's Memorial Building
Session 4 - Poster Sessions
4:15 - 5:00	Dunes Center's Sand Bandits Education Program Wetland Restoration and Mitigation Program The Guadalupe Restoration Project Growing Facility La Graciosa Thistle Salvage and Restoration Dunes Center's Olivier Fourie Research Library Agricultural Watershed Coalition	Kanani Fox, Dunes Center Jenny Langford Jenny Langford Jenny Langford Leslie Mosson Kay Mercer	Dunes Center
Session 5 - Dinner and Social
5:00-6:30	Potato Bar	Music By: Hear the Darlins' Roar	Dunes Center
Friday, May 16th, 2008
8:30 - 9:15	Breakfast & Keynote Speech	Kara Blakeslee	Guadalupe Cultural Arts & Education Center
Session 1 - Field Trips
9:30 - 12:00	Plants Interpreting the Dunes	Lauren Brown Tom Neuman	Oso Flaco Lake
Lunch
12:00-12:45	BBQ lunch	-	Guadalupe Veteran's Memorial Building
Session 2 - Presentations
12:45-3:00	Small Mammals Geology Herpetology Interpretation	Dr. Francis Villablanca David Chipping Glenn Greenwald Rouvaishyana	Guadalupe Veteran's Memorial Building