Where We Live: History , Nature, and Culture—Understanding and Caring for Our Streams and Rivers
On Monday, August 18, the series “Where We Live: History, Nature, and Culture”, will host a program about understanding and caring for our streams and rivers. Lewis Penland will talk about the importance of riparian buffers for protecting our waterways, the impact of filling in floodplains, and human factors direct and indirect that affect streams. He will explain why streams may need to be restored, what processes are used in restoration, and what improvements should result. And, relevant to recent activities on our river, he will discuss why the debris clean-up was not, in many cases, restoration.
C. Lewis Penland (AKA Lewis Jr.), VP of Penland Contracting, was a participant in the Mountain Landscapes Initiative Toolbox, a document created to aid in planning issues in Western North Carolina. He is a former chairman of the Macon County Planning Board and helped with the Clean Water Contractor classes. Penland Jr. has been on the board of many local environmental and educational organizations, including the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (now Mainspring Conservation Trust), Rabun Gap Nacoochee School and the Construction Management Program at Western Carolina University. He was involved in the Franklin to Fontana watershed study and consulted the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians on their erosion control standards. He is a graduate of WCU with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Technology, and has completed the Level 1 & 2 Rosgen courses, which provide state-of-the-art training in river geomorphology and restoration methodology. Learn more about Penland Contracting’s services at
http://penlandcontracting.com/
The program will take place at Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center at 51 Cowee School Drive at 6:30 on Monday, August 18. A freshly prepared dinner will be available at 5:30pm in the old lunchroom for $20.
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