CALIFORNIA WATERSHED MANAGEMENT FORUM

Identifying the Potential:

Learning from the Experience of Other States

 

Wednesday, September 1, 1999

University of California, Davis

 

Forum Agenda

 

9:00 a.m Welcoming Remarks
  Dennis Pendleton, Director, U.C. Davis Public Service Research Program
  Sari Sommarstrom, President, Watershed Management Council
   
9:10 a.m.  The View from California
  Mary Nichols, Secretary, California Resources Agency
   
9:30 a.m. Perspectives from Three States: The State and Local Experience
  Moderators: Sari Sommarstrom & Rick Kattelmann, Watershed Management Council; Martha Davis, Californians and the Land
  Massachusetts
  Bob Durand, Secretary of Environmental Affairs
  Bob O'Connor, Director of Watershed Management, Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
  Ed Himlan,  Executive Director, Massachusetts Watershed Coalition
  Questions & Answers of Panel
  Feedback & Discussion
   
10:50 a.m. BREAK
   
11:10 a.m. Oregon
 

Bill Bradbury, "Steps to Enacting the Oregon Watershed Approach", Executive Director of For Sake of the Salmon, and former Oregon State Senator

  Louise Solliday Chair, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
  Jacqueline Dingfelder, "The Tualatin River Watershed Council: Lessons Learned",  Watershed Program Coordinator, For the Sake of the Salmon
  Questions & Answers of Panel
  Feedback & Discussion
   
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
   
1:30 p.m. Washington
  Joe Williams,  Dept. of Ecology, Special Assistant to the Director for Watershed Management
  Nancy Hansen,  Manager, King County Dept. of Natural Resources, Water & Land Resources Division
  Questions & Answers of Panel
  Feedback & Discussion
   
2:40 p.m. BREAK
   
3:00 p.m. Comparisons of State & Local Approaches
  Moderator: Dennis Pendleton, Public Service Research Program, U.C. Davis
   
  State & Watershed Council Role in Western Watershed Initiatives
  Doug Kenney, Research Associate, Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law
   
  Four Corners Watershed Innovators Initiative
  Don Elder, Watershed Programs Director, River Network
   
  Questions and Answers of Panel
   
3:40 p.m. Feedback & Discussion - all topics
   
4:15 p.m. Building on the Potential: Where We've Gone, Where We're Going
  Moderators
   
4:30 p.m.  Adjourn
   
5:30 p.m. DINNER in Davis - option for those wanting to continue discussion

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