The Land and Community: Context for restoration and stewardship in the American West
Discussion focusing on the history of conservation, restoration and stewardship in the West, current needs and goals, and adaptation in the face of a changing climate.
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Thursday, 8:45am - Plenary Session
This session will kick-off the Summit with a review of the history that has shaped today's context for restoration, stewardship, and social and economic development in the West, and a discuss the challenges and opportunities in the face of a changing climate and an increasingly globalized economy.
Speakers
- Philip Mote, State Climatologist, Research Scientist and Affiliate Professor, Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington
Restoration in the context of global change: challenges and opportunities - Don Snow, Senior Lecturer of Environmental Humanities and General Studies, Whitman College
History and review of ecological conditions, restoration, and economic and social conditions in the rural American West - Survival is a Test of the Right
Moderator
Maia Enzer, Policy Program Director, Sustainable Northwest
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Philip Mote
Dr Philip Mote is a research scientist at the University of Washington, in the Climate Impacts Group (CIG), and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. His research interests include Northwest climate and its effects on snowpack, streamflow, and forest fires. A frequent public speaker, he has also written over 70 scientific articles and edited a book on climate modeling, published in 2000. In 2003 he became the Washington State Climatologist. He served as a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in 2007. He holds degrees from Harvard and UW.
Don Snow
Don Snow is a professor, editor, writer, and activist with more than 30 years’ experience in environmental and natural resource issues in the American West. For 18 of those years he directed the Northern Lights Research & Education Institute in Missoula, Montana, where he founded and co-edited both Northern Lights Magazine and the Chronicle of Community. In 2001 he came to Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he is now Senior Lecturer of Environmental Humanities and General Studies. His essays and articles have appeared in many journals and magazines, including High Country News, Orion, Sierra, Environmental Law and Montana Magazine, where his six-part series on Montana literature, “Writing the Real Montana,” won an IRMA award for excellence in magazine features. His books include Northern Lights: A Selection of Writing from the American West; The Next West: Public Lands, Community and Economy in the American West; Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation; and The Book of the Tongass. In 2006, on behalf of the Oregon Council for the Humanities, he contributed to the Commonplace Lecture Series with “‘Round the Next Bend: Pendleton, Walla Walla, and the Transformation of the Rural West,” a lecture he delivered in ten rural locations in Washington and Oregon. His most recent book project (forthcoming) is titled Sustaining Place: The Persistence of the Local in an Era of Globalization.
Maia Enzer
Maia Enzer is the Director for the Policy Program at Sustainable Northwest. In that capacity she works on issues related to forest restoration and community economic development, with a focus on federal lands policy. She has more than 13 years experience in bringing diverse stakeholders together to identify common ground around federal lands management issues. Previously, she served as Sustainable Northwest's Director of the Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Partnership (HFHC), a regional collaborative working to market the byproducts of forest restoration. Prior to joining Sustainable Northwest, Maia was the Director of Forest Policy at American Forests in Washington, D.C. (1993-2000). She has also worked as an organizer for MASSPIRG and NYPIRG on state and local environmental issues. Maia has a Masters degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1993) and a BA in Political Science from Union College (1989). She currently is serving on the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Advisory Council. She served on the board of the Communities Committee of the Seventh American Forest Congress and was the Co-Chair of the Policy Task Group for the (1997-2002); she served on the board of the National Network of Forest Practitioners (2000-2005). She is one of the editors on the book entitled, Understanding Community Based Forest Ecosystem Management, published by the Journal of Sustainable Forestry.
