Forest Futures panel:
Endangered Species
2:15-3:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge, third floor of the Putnam University Center
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Panelist Bios:

1. Susan Jane Brown will present a paper titled "Problems with endangered species protection under the Northwest Forest Plan."

Brown is the executive director of the Gifford Pinchot Task Force, a grassroots forest protection and advocacy organization based in Vancouver, Washington. Susan Jane graduated from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College with a Juris Doctorate and the Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, and is an active member of the Washington State Bar. For the past five years, she has worked extensively on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southwest Washington monitoring and litigating timber sales on the GPNF, including analyzing virtually every timber sale environmental assessment on the GPNF since 1997. Susan Jane is also actively involved in forest monitoring and litigation on national forests east of the Cascade crest in Oregon. Additionally, she is a past editor of Environmental Law, the nation's oldest and foremost environmental law review publication. Recent publications include dissertations on the Northwest Forest Plan, land exchanges, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' rumored "liberal" environmental record, and a comparison of Gifford Pinchot's conservation ethic versus that of the modern Forest Service.

2. Richard Stroup will present a paper titled "The Endangered Species Act: Helping or Hurting?"

Stroup is a professor of economics at Montana State University and a PERC senior associate. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. From 1982 to 1984, he was director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Stroup is a widely published author and speaker on economics, including natural resources and environmental issues, and he has written many articles for professional journals and popular media outlets. His work helped to develop the approach to resource problems known as the New Resource Economics or
Free Market Environmentalism. Stroup is coauthor with James D. Gwartney of a primer on economics, What Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity; as well as a co-author with James D. Gwartney, Russell S. Sobel and David Macpherson of a leading college economics textbook, Economics Private and Public Choice, now in its tenth edition. His recent publications have focused on the Superfund program and on alternative institutional arrangements for dealing with endangered species, regulatory takings, and other regulatory issues. His monograph entitled What Everyone Should KnowAbout Economics and the Environment is in the publication process.

3. Steve Ackers will present a paper titled "Threatened and endangered Species Monitoring Under the Northwest Forest Plan: Spotted Owl Demographics."

Ackers is a Faculty Research Assistant by the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in the Department of Fish and Wildlife at Oregon State University. His duties include supervising seasonal biologists, managing the long-term database, analyzing the data and reporting the results, participating in regional analyses of spotted owl demography, consulting with Forest Service biologists and collecting data in the field whenever possible. Previously, Ackers has been on field crews for the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Flagstaff, Arizona and provided private consulting on a variety of issues. Ackers received a Ph.D. from Northern Arizona University in 1997 after completing his M.S. at Utah State University in 1992 and B.S. at Oregon State University in 1986.

4. Stephanie M. Parent will present a paper titled "Litigating the Endangered Species Act under the Northwest Forest Plan."

Parent is a staff attorney with the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC), the environmental legal clinic of Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College. She also instructs the Environmental Litigation course. She is an alum of the school and received her J.D. in 1992. Stephanie has a B.S. (1987) in international relations and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Following law school she worked as an Honors Attorney for the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture. After completing the Honors' Program, she worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney defending the United States in environmental litigation, primarily in actions challenging public land management decisions. She has also taught courses in Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law & Policy for the U.S.D.A. Graduate School, an adult continuing education program.

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