Learn more about the benefits and challenges
of local food production at the “Connecting Through
Local Foods” conference, March 28-29, at the College of
Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. The conference will feature keynote
speaker Gary Paul Nabhan, and cover topics from seed saving to farm
bills, and marketing to alternative pest control. For more
information, call 208/732-6401 or e-mail aces@csi.edu.
Head to Leavenworth, Wash., for the Hazel Wolf
Environmental Film Festival on March 28-31. The festival
line-up includes more than 20 films, including Doug
Hawes-Davis’s This is Nowhere, about Wal-Mart, Valley in the
Crossroads, a look at California’s Central Valley, and Empty
Oceans, Empty Nets, which examines the world of marine fisheries.
For more information, call 306/443-7239 or visit www.hazelfilm.org.
The 2003 Arkansas River Basin Water
Forum will be held on March 27-28 at the University of
Southern Colorado, Pueblo. “Watering Your Future” will
include discussions of collaboration, water law, water banking and
tamarisk. Call 719/336-9421 or e-mail rappel@co.usda.gov.
Denver is hosting the 2003 American Planning
Association’s National Planning Conference from
March 29-April 2. Hot topics include rural planning and scenic
byways, Smart Growth and rural economic revitalization. Call
312/786-6397 or visit www.planning.org.
An essay
contest, sponsored by Gallatin Writers Inc., asks college
students the question “Where lies the future of the Northern
Plains?” More information on the contest and its cash prizes
can be found at www.gallatin.org.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Short Takes.
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