Conference Schedule                
11:00-12:30 p.m. Registration and Buffet lunch

Keynote Speaker, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber
     Introduced by Tori Haring-Smith, Vice President for Educational Affairs, Willamette University

Cat Cavern, Putnam University Center

This session will explore the variety and variability among practices that are called “sustainable forestry."  By bringing together an interdisciplinary panel, we hope to illuminate the contributions of various disciplines to the debate on whether (and how) we can manage forests for ecosystem integrity while sustaining yield of forest products.  Panelists, and the papers they will present, are:

Roger Sedjo, Natural Resources Economist, Resources for the Future. Paper title: "Definitional Challenges and Realties of Sustainable Forestry with Respect to Management and Economics."
Jack Ward Thomas, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Montana; Former Head of the U.S. Forest Service. Paper title: "Management Realities of Sustainable Forest Management under the Northwest Forest Plan."
David Perry, Program Director, Land Restoration, Malama Kukui Cultural Learning Center (Hawaii); Professor (emeritus),
Ecosystem Studies and Ecosystem Management, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University. Paper title: "Ecological Realities of Sustainable Forestry under the Northwest Forest Plan."
John Beuter, President, Umpqua-Tualatin, Inc. Paper Title: "Economic Realities of Sustaining Yield of Forest Products under the Northwest Forest Plan."

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1. Science and Policymaking
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In this session, the increasingly fuzzy intersection of science and policy will be explored.  In particular we will focus on the role of the scientist in the policymaking arena, and how science is used in the courts.  Panelists:

Deborah Brosnan, Ph.D., President of the Sustainable Ecosystems Institute. Paper title: "The Role of Scientists as Forest Policy Advocates."
Fred Swanson, Research Geologist, USFS Pacific NW Research Station; Professor of Forest Science and Geoscience, OSU. Paper title: "Experiences with Science and Policy in the Northwest Forest Plan."
Dan Rohlf, Assoc. Professor, Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College. Paper title: "Science, Policy and the Law in the Northwest Forest Plan."
Ronald Mitchell, Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of Oregon. Paper title: "The Use and Misuse of Science in the Policy Process: Lessons for Future Forests."
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What is on the horizon for endangered species?  In this session we will review the current status of the Endangered Species Act and Habitat Conservation Plans and explore the future for policy related to endangered species in Pacific Northwest forests.  Panelists:

Susan Jane Brown, Executive Director of the Gifford Pinchot Task Force. Paper title: "Problems with endangered species protection under the Northwest Forest Plan."
Richard Stroup, Senior Associate, PERC- The Center for Free Market Environmentalism. Paper title: "The Endangered Species Act: Helping or Hurting?"
Steve Ackers, Wildlife Ecologist, Oregon State University. Paper title: "Threatened and endangered Species Monitoring Under the Northwest Forest Plan: Spotted Owl Demographics."
Stephanie Parent, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College. Paper title: "Litigating the Endangered Species Act under the Northwest Forest Plan."
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Panelists:
Bruce Babbitt, Former Secretary of the Interior
Mark Rey, USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment.
Margaret Shannon, Assoc. Professor, University of Buffalo (NY) Law School.
Jack Ward Thomas, Former head of the USFS and Professor, University of Montana (Missoula)

Cat Cavern, Putnam University Center
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POST-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES:

4:45-5:45 "People and Forests: Diverse perspectives on Sustaining Forests in the Pacific Northwest"
A presentation by Steve Mital, Service Learning Coordinator, University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program in the Alumni Lounge, Putnam University Center

8 p.m. Dempsey Lecture by Bruce Babbitt 

in Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center (no charge for lecture, seats on a first-come, first-served basis)

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