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Friday, 11:15am

Explore innovative outcomes from mature stewardship contracting collaboratives, connect with practitioners, and share knowledge across disciplines.  Attendees will hear perspectives on the value of stewardship contracting from practitioners across the West.  Opportunities for collaboration between agency and collaborative group members will be highlighted.  Participants will come out of the session with a heightened knowledge of a range of processes and contracting mechanisms used to implement stewardship contracts. 

Speakers

• Lloyd McGee, President, Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition
  Developing Guidelines for Collaborative Support on Stewardship Projects
  
• Emily Platt, Executive Director, Gifford Pinchot Task Force
  Scaling up collaborative projects
  
• Johnny Sundstrom, President, The Siuslaw Institute
  From pilot to permanent: the Siuslaw stewardship story
  

  
  

Moderator

Marcus Kauffman, Program Manager, Resource Innovations

Recommended Readings

• Forest Service Contracting: A Basic Guide for Restoration Practitioners, 2006.
• Redefining Stewardship: Public Lands and Rural Communities in the Pacific Northwest, Feb. 2008.
• Stewardship Contracting and Collaboration: Best Practices Guidebook
• Best Value and Stewardship Contracting Guidebook: Meeting Ecological and Community Objectives, 2006.

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Lloyd McGee

Lloyd McGee is a graduate of the University of Idaho with Bachelor of Science Degrees in Forest Resource Management and Forest Products Business Management and has been in the forestry profession for over 30 years.  He has been the log and land procurement manager for Vaagen Brothers Lumber Company for the past 15 years in Colville Washington.  He has been the President of the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition since it’s formation in 2002.  In the first half of his career he was a Resource Manager for the State of Idaho Department of Lands for 10 years and forest technician for several seasons with the Panhandle National Forest in North Idaho.  He is also a proud graduate of the Washington Agriculture and Forestry Education Foundation Leadership Program, Class 17.  He has three grown children and three grand children which he says “give him a nice break from all these forestry issues.”

Emily Platt

Emily is the Executive Director of the Gifford Pinchot Task Force. The Gifford Pinchot Task Force works to protect and restore the biodiversity of southwest Washington and has successfully stopped all ancient forest logging and roadless area projects on the 1.3 million acre Gifford Pinchot National Forest (GPNF) for the last ten years. Emily has led the Task Force through a new phase of work that includes collaboration and partnering with rural communities. Before joining the Gifford Pinchot Task Force, Emily worked on environmental and social justice campaigns in Spokane, San Francisco and Baltimore on issues including dam removal, pesticides, and discrimination. Emily graduated from the Green Corps program in 2001 and earned a BA in English Literature from Gonzaga University.

Johnny Sundstrom

Johnny Sundstrom is Chair of his local Soil & Water Conservation District, Past President of the Oregon Association of (45) Conservation Districts, and serves on the Board of Directors and Legislative Committee of their National Association (NACD).
As founder and coordinator of the Siuslaw Institute, Inc., he manages salmon habitat restoration projects, coordinates education programs and research studies, has directed local theater productions and published numerous articles and booklets on natural resources issues. The Institute is a core member of the Siuslaw Basin Partnership, winners of the 2004 Thiess International Riverprize, awarded each year in Brisbane, Australia. The Siuslaw Partners are currently sharing their expertise with communities and agencies on Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Pacific Far East, and Johnny has made three trips there for this work. He serves on several of Oregon’s regional Advisory Committees dealing with forests, fisheries and other natural resources, and on the board of a community foundation.
Johnny is varsity Track & Field Coach at the local high school, and co-owner and manager of a ranch and forestland operation in Oregon’s Coast Range. His mother and brother also live on the place, and his two adult children come and go, living and working there part-time.

Marcus Kauffman

Marcus Kauffman has extensive experience working with rural communities in the Pacific Northwest. His work focuses on developing public-private collaborations with rural communities to improve natural resource and economic development opportunities. He has developed collaboratives that have addressed ecosystem restoration, sustained yield units, community fire protection planning, stewardship contracting, and more recently woody biomass utilization.

Marcus is a long-time Oregonian. He was raised in rural southern Oregon where he worked in his father’s post and pole construction and log furniture business. Among the many skills he learned from his father was horse-logging. He earned a bachelor’s in international studies from the University of Oregon, including a year abroad in Poitiers, France. He served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic where he worked with community leaders to provide more potable water and coached a youth baseball team.

After the Peace Corps, Marcus worked in his hometown of Cave Junction, Oregon for two years with the AmeriCorps program. His efforts to develop sustainable businesses and eco-tourism opportunities helped him realize the complexity of the challenges rural communities face and the inadequacy of his training. He returned to University of Oregon where he earned a Master’s of Community and Regional Planning with an emphasis on rural community development.

Prior to joining Resource Innovations Marcus worked for Sustainable Northwest and the Watershed Research and Training Center. He lives in Eugene with his wife and energetic three-year old daughter Eleni. His interests include mountain biking, woodworking, gardening, and spending time with friends and family.