<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif;background-color:transparent">The CEES Seminar Series presents:</span></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Colin Powers - </span></b><b style="background-color:transparent;font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Executive Director, </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Boquet River Association</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Volunteer-driven watershed restoration in the Adirondack Park</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;background-color:transparent;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;background-color:transparent;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Volunteer-driven restoration is a powerful, low-cost way for communities to drive meaningful ecological change in their own </span>backyards<span style="text-indent:0.5in;background-color:transparent;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">. Colin Powers, the Executive Director of the Boquet River Association (BRASS) describes how this volunteer-based organization has planted over 270,000 trees, removed dams, built flood resilience, and protected water quality for 40 years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent">The newest activity in the BRASS toolbox is Low-Tech Process Based Restoration – the practice of using simple, hand-built structures instead of machinery to restore degraded streams and riverscapes. Using natural materials, small crews of workers build rock and wood structures that trap sediment, slow erosion and recharge aquifers. In 2025, BRASS built the first of these in the Adirondack Park with surprising results.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Friday Sept 4</b><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">  3:30</b><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">pm. </b></p><div><div><div><div><div><b>Hudson 106</b></div></div><div><b>Reception prior to the talk at 3:00</b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