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Eightmile River Committee Members/Advisory Committee

The Eightmile River Watershed Project is built on the philosophy that "watershed management" is mostly about good land use planning by municipalities, and informed land use decisions by individual property owners. Accordingly, project "management" takes the approach of a small planning effort, where UConn and other natural resource professionals work together with a relatively small group of representatives from the towns. The composition of the Committee and the Resource Team are allowed to evolve, according to the direction that this planning effort takes. The goal is to avoid 60-person committees and 50-item lists of issues, and thus keep the group workable and the project moving forward.

Eightmile River Town Committee - Members include representatives from:

• East Haddam Board of Selectmen
• East Haddam Planning Office
• East Haddam Land Trust
• Lyme Land Trust
• Lyme Board of Selectmen
• Lyme Wetlands Commission
• Salem Land Trust
• Salem Planning and Zoning Commission
• Salem Economic Development Commission
• Salem Inland Wetlands Commission

Eightmile River Resource Team

• UConn Cooperative Extension System: NEMO team
• UConn Cooperative Extension System: Forestry Team
• Connecticut Sea Grant College Program
• The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut Chapter
• Silvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• Environmental Protection Agency: Office of Ecosystem Protection
• Connecticut Office of the State Archaeologist
• Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection: Fisheries Division
• Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection: Natural Resources Center
• New England Environmental Services
  

Other Officials Kept informed of the Project

• Salem Board of Selectmen
• East Lyme Board of Selectmen
• Colchester Board of Selectmen
• East Haddam Conservation Commission
• East Haddam Economic Development Commission

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