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 |