Forest
Futures closing panel:
The Future and Challenges
of the Northwest Forest Plan
3:45-4:30
p.m. in
the Cat Cavern, second floor of the Putnam University Center
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Forest
Futures closing panel:
The Future and Challenges
of the Northwest Forest Plan
3:45-4:30
p.m. in
the Cat Cavern, second floor of the Putnam University Center
Back to panelists
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Panelist Bios:
Rey was sworn in as the under secretary for natural resources and environment on October 2, 2001. In that position, he oversees the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service. Since January 1995, Rey served as a staff member with the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. He was directly involved in virtually all of the forestry and conservation legislation considered during the past several sessions of Congress, with principal responsibility for a number of public lands bills during this period. From 1992-94 Rey served as vice president, forest resources for the American Forest and Paper Association. He served as executive director for the American Forest Resource Alliance from 1989-92. He served as vice president, public forestry programs for the National Forest Products Association from 1984-89. Rey is a native of Canton, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife management, a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry, and a Master of Science degree in natural resources policy and administration, all from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 2. Margaret Shannon will present a paper titled "The Northwest Forest Plan at (almost) 10: Future Policy Challenges." Shannon is a Professor at the University of Buffalo Law School in New York. She also serves as an Associate Professor and Public Administrator at Syracuse University. Shannon received a Ph.D. in forestry and resource management from the University of California, Berkely and a B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Montana. Recently, Shannon has taught a joint Planning Department/Law School course "Legal Dimension of Environmental Planning." She also sponored a research project between the University of Washington Institute for Resources in Society and the Pacific Northwest Research Station. Shannon also serves on the Board of Directors for American Forests in Washington, D.C.
Babbitt was appointed to U.S. Secretary of the Interior by President Clinton in January of 1993. Babbitt had served as Governor of Arizona from 1978-1987, and Attorney General of Arizona, 1975-1978. During his tenure at the Department of Interior, Secretary Babbitt has initiated a new direction in American conservation history -- the development of large scale, consensus-based environmental restoration projects. In the Pacific Northwest, the Department has played a lead role in shaping President Clinton's Forest Plan, a comprehensive multi-species regional plan. Under Babbitt's leadership, the Department has breathed new life into the Endangered Species Act, demonstrating how the act can be applied to protect open space and multiple species through an innovative, consensus-building approach: Habitat Conservation Plans. In recent months, Babbitt has travelled throughout the nation, on Natural Heritage Tours, explaining to the public attempts by the new Congressional leadership to roll back our bipartisan legacy of sound conservation and environmental protection laws. He graduated from Notre Dame with a B.A. in Geology, took an M.S. in Geophysics from University of Newcastle, England, and earned an L.L.B. from Harvard Law School.
Thomas is the Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Montana (Missoula). His career as a research wildlife biologist began in 1957 at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He joined the Forest Service in 1966 and ended his research career in 1993 as Chief Research Wildlife Biologist. In 1993, He was appointed Chief of the Forest Service, serving through 1996. He was at the forefront of efforts to resolve conservation conflicts in the Pacific Northwest including leadership of the Interagency Scientific Committee to Address Conservation of the Spotted Owl, the Scientific Assessment Team, was appointed Leader for the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team by the President of the United States in early 1993. He has over 500 publications including such prize-winning efforts such as The Elk on North America - Ecology and Management, Wildlife Habitats in Managed Forests - The Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington, and A Conservation Strategy for the Northern Spotted Owl. Thomas holds a B.S. in Wildlife Management from Texas A&M University (College Station), a M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from West Virginia University (Morgantown), and a Ph.D. in Forestry from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). |
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1.
Mark E. Rey
will present a paper titled "Amending the Northwest Forest Plan."
Bruce
Babbitt will participate in this roundtable discussion.
Jack Ward Thomas will
also sit in on this roundtable.