Sessions
The Lower Wisconsin State Riverway: 32 Years of Innovative Resource Protection and Collaboration
1:45 PM - 2:25 PM Thu
Mark Cupp has served as Executive Director of the Riverway Board since inception of the project in 1989. Prior to being hired by the board, he worked at the State Capitol in both the Assembly and Senate. He was a key player in the negotiations that created the statutory language for the Riverway. Cupp also is Chair of the Wisconsin Land & Water Conservation Board, President of Cultural Landscape Legacies and Vice-President of the Three Eagles Foundation. He is an avocational archeologist and local historian. Mark is also involved in a number of civic and philanthropic organizations. He co-manages the Cupp Brothers Farm in northern Richland County where he is able to directly apply the Land Ethic espoused by Aldo Leopold. Cupp resides in Muscoda, a river town known as the Morel Mushroom Capital of Wisconsin.