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Friday, 3:30pm

Whether you are restoring forests, rangelands, or fish habitat, learn why and how monitoring can ensure you measure what you treasure and can adapt your strategies.
 

Speakers

• McRee Anderson, Fire Restoration Project Director, The Nature Conservancy - AR, Project Leader, Fire Learning Network - South Central Region US
  Fire restoration monitoring
  
• Lisa Moscinski, Restoration Coordinator, Gifford Pinchot Task Force
  Multiparty Monitoring
  
• Clair Thomas, Monitoring Program Director, Lakeview Stewardship Group,
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Moderator

Jim Kramer, Kramer Consulting

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McRee Anderson

McRee Anderson is The Nature Conservancy’s Fire Restoration Project Director in Arkansas and is the Project Leader for the Fire Learning Network in the South-Central Region of the USA. As Arkansas’ Fire Restoration Project Director, McRee co-manages a roving 10 person burn crew for 8 months out of the year conducting over 50 prescribed burns on approximately 10,000 acres.  Since 2001, McRee has been intimately involved with fire management professionals who are “on the ground” and interested in developing large landscape-scale fire restoration projects for ecosystem health and sustainability with a diverse partner base. The South-Central Fire Learning Network encompasses 15 landscapes in four ecoregions across four states, totaling 333,887 acres. Each landscape has ongoing fire restoration projects that are addressing altered fire regimes via working partnerships. McRee has also worked internationally on projects in Latin America where he was Ignition Boss on the first ‘prescribed fire’ in Mexico and is currently assisting with the development of a pine-oak ecosystem fire restoration project in Honduras. McRee received a Masters degree in Water Resources from Portland State University and is certified as a RXB2 burn boss. McRee grew up in the Ouachita Mountains in west central Arkansas and loves burning the places he once built forts in as a kid. 

Lisa Moscinski

Lisa Moscinski joined the Gifford Pinchot Task Force in March of 2006 as the program assistant for the Task Force’s regional restoration program. Lisa’s work has led to widely-recognized successes on the Mount Hood National Forest where the local collaborative group recently received the national Two Chiefs Partnership Award. Lisa now manages the Task Force’s restoration program and plays an integral role in collaborative work and restoration on the GPNF.

Lisa grew up La Grande, Oregon and graduated with a master's degree in Environmental Anthropology from Oregon State University in 2003. She has worked in the environmental field since 2001, starting as an intern with Hells Canyon Preservation Council, as a biological technician with the US Forest Service in Michigan, as a restoration coordinator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and finally with the urban watershed stewardship program for the City of Portland’s Environmental Services Department.

Clair Thomas

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Jim Kramer

Jim Kramer is a leader in the Northwest on natural resources, organizational development and mediation.  Jim has 30 years of experience in environmental issues, public policy and finance, and private sector incentive-based programs. He is a practitioner in the art of democracy, moving people and organizations to action and results. Jim is an expert at building bridges between science and policy, and between diverse interest groups. He has been an architect of new organizations and public initiatives.

He graduated from the Evergreen State College with a degree in natural sciences and has   worked for local governments developing and implementing land use and environmental programs. At King County he created and managed the Surface Water Management Division which grew to a staff of 350 employees and an annual budget of over $25 million.

Since 1997, he has worked as a consultant and director of a nonprofit organization. Jim assisted in the creation of the statewide program for salmon habitat funding (Salmon Recovery Funding Board) and facilitated decisions on over $100 million in project funds. Most recently as Executive Director of the Shared Strategy, he managed the development of the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan with the involvement of 14 watersheds and several hundred stakeholders.  The plan was adopted by the federal government under the Endangered Species Act and is the first of its kind.

In 2006, in addition to his work as Executive Director, Jim was co-manager of the Governor’s original Puget Sound Partnership and was part of the team that worked for successful creation of a new governance structure for Puget Sound by the State Legislature.  Over the last year, Jim initiated and managed an innovative project evaluating the results of governmental and private sector efforts to protect the environment in the San Juan Islands of Washington.

In addition to his work, Jim enjoys the outdoors and serves on the boards of Sustainable Northwest and the Puget Sound Restoration Fund.