GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

Steering Team Overview

The New River Valley Green Infrastructure Initiative is being designed and planned through the guidance of a local steering group, called the Steering Team. The Steering Team is providing guidance in all aspects of project planning and workshop design and delivery. The Steering Team is serving as the local body that helps to ensure that the project meets the needs of the county/municipal partners and that pertinent local issues are addressed. Specifically, the Steering Team will be consulted on the following items:

  • Refining project goals (ongoing)
  • Developing a green infrastructure outreach strategy
  • Revising and helping to develop the invitation list for all educational components (community workshops)
  • Identifying dates, locations for all community workshops
  • Reviewing and refining the workshop agendas
  • Refining marketing materials, invitation letters
  • Refining media strategy to publicize the initiative
  • Conducting outreach to stakeholders and marketing the workshops
  • Adapting a green infrastructure network design mapping exercise for community workshops and refining appropriate data layers
  • Developing a strategy for convening a Leadership Group

 

Steering Team Members

Amy Doss, Montgomery County
Abigail Convery, New River Valley Planning District Commission
Beth Obenshin, New River Land Trust
Christy Gabbard, Department of Conservation and Recreation
Davis Wildman, Floyd County
Debbie Lineweaver, Pulaski County
Doug Warren, Pulaski County
Jerry Moles, Land Care
Jim Clark, Department of Forestry
Jodi Stacy, The Conservation Fund
Joseph Fagan, Department of Conservation and Recreation
Karen Drake, Town of Blacksburg
Kris Hoellen, The Conservation Fund
Krystal Kearns, Department of Conservation and Recreation
Laura Belleville, Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Michael Walters, New River Valley Planning District Commission
Nichole Hair, Town of Christiansburg
Paul Revell, Department of Forestry
Randall Rose, Virginia Tourism Corporation
Scott Tate, VT Corporate Extension
Shawn Utt, Pulaski Co
Susan Garrison, Town of Blacksburg
Ursula Lemanski, National Park Service
Zack Kyle, City of Radford