Western Stewardship Summit Program Agenda
View the Western Stewardship Summit program agenda with full session descriptions, speaker bios, recommended readings, and related links.
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- Wednesday, September 24, 2008
- Thursday, September 25, 2008
- Friday, September 26, 2008
- Saturday Field Sessions
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
3:00pm - Early registration check-in at Sunriver front desk
5:00pm - Welcome reception (with catered appetizers and no-host bar)
- Information Marketplace
- Poetry reading, Kit Stafford
Thursday, September 25, 2008
7:00am - Breakfast buffet & registration check-in
8:00am - Opening Remarks
- Considering the future of restoration and stewardship
Martin Goebel, President, Sustainable Northwest
8:45am - Plenary Session 1
10:30am - Break, additional Q&A
10:45am - Plenary Session 2
12:15pm - Break
12:30pm - Lunch and Guest Speaker
- Losing ground: perspectives on the declining health of western lands and communities and what needs to be done about it. James (Jim) R. Lyons, Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Former Undersecretary for Environment and Natural Resources, USDA
1:45pm - Break
2:00pm - Concurrent Sessions 1
- Restoration Principles: Development and use at different scales (panel)
- Marketing stewardship: Branding and certification (round table discussion)
- Policy, enforcement measures, and practices affecting restoration and stewardship workers (panel)
- Approaches and processes to design and implement on-the-ground collaborative restoration projects (round table discussion)
- Open space available.
3:15pm - Break
3:30pm - Concurrent Sessions 2
- Community based fire restoration (panel)
- Making forests resilient (panel)
- Ecosystem services: emerging opportunities for restoration and stewardship (panel)
- Tools and strategies for integrated watershed restoration (panel)
- Comprehensive restoration legislation and funding for federal public lands (panel)
4:45pm - Break
5:00pm - Networking reception (with substantial appetizers and no-host bar)
Friday, September 26, 2008
7:00am - Breakfast
8:30am - Opening remarks
8:45am - Guest speaker
- How collaboration and the movement for community-based natural resource management has influenced forest policy in the West, Mark Rey, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment, USDA
9:15am - Break
9:45am - Concurrent Sessions 3
- Forest restoration techniques and approaches (panel)
- Tools for small-scale biomass heat development (technical session)
- Carbon markets: Opportunities for restoration and profit (panel)
- Perspectives on and options for restoration in grazed landscapes (panel)
- Advancing collaboration in complex situations (round table discussion and technical session)
11:00am - Break
11:15am - Concurrent Sessions 4
- How climate change impacts ecosystems and restoration efforts (panel)
- Determining appropriate scale for biomass energy development (panel)
- Stewardship contracting stories (panel)
- Fostering ecological connectivity and preventing land conversion (panel)
- A restoration approach to community wildfire protection plans (round table discussion)
12:30pm - Break
12:45pm - Catered Lunch
1:45pm - Break
2:00pm - Concurrent Sessions 5
- Aquatic restoration: Lessons from the stream (panel)
- Job creation and the economic reality of restoration (panel)
- Overcoming challenges to successful stewardship contracting (technical session)
- Management across ownership boundaries and landscapes (round table discussion)
- Increasing local benefit from restoration (technical session)
3:15pm - Break
3:30pm - Concurrent Sessions 6
- Climate change and social vulnerability (round table discussion)
- Going beyond grants: Accessing capital for restoration and stewardship (panel)
- Approaches to monitoring and adaptive management (round table discussion)
- Demonstration of Miradi software: Conservation planning made easy! (technical session)
- Learning from the landscape: emerging restoration lessons from recent wildfires on treated landscapes (round table discussion)
