Conference Program

The conference begins Thursday evening of April 3rd at Kane Hall on the UW campus with a FREE photo presentation by Gary Braasch, Environmental Photo-Journalist, as Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World. Braasch won the Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra Club in the U.S., and the Outstanding Nature Photographer citation from the North American Nature Photography Association.

The conference brings conservationists from around the country and Canada. You can join them by attending Wilderness 2008. You can attend by registering for this free evening and following events at www.brownpaperticket.com On Friday and Saturday, the conference moves to the Mountaineers Building. The conference looks at some of the changes happening in the world and their impacts on wilderness preservation. There are sessions discussing the problems facing preservation, how to be an effective advocate, and on delivering the message of wilderness values.

Thursday  April 3, 2008

Thursday, April 3, 2008 - FREE - Please register to reserve a space.

Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World

Gary Braasch, Environmental Photo-Journalist,

Friday – April 4, 2008 – Mountaineer Bldg

 

7:00am             Exhibit Set-up              [Olympus Room]

8:00am            Registration 

9:00am             Conference Opens

9:15am             Welcome to Green Seattle

                        Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle

9:30am             Protecting Biodiversity in a Changing Climate

                        Josh Lawler, Ph.D., UW College of Forest Resources  

10:45am           Concurrent Sessions [4]

Global Warming Effects on Western Wilderness [Olympus Room]

Don McKenzie, USF Climate Impacts Group

Science: a Special Tool            [Tahoma1]

Gordon Orians, UW Biology Professor Emeritus

Historic Act vs. Wilderness Act               [Tahoma 2]

Tim McNulty, Olympic Park Associates & Author

George Nickas, Exec Dir, Wilderness Watch

Gil Reavis, Lawyer in Olympic Nat’l Park Shelter Case

Threatened Canadian Wilderness             [Pinnacle]

Marilyn Heiman, Exec Dir, Boreal Songbird Initiative

11:45am           Box Lunch [Olympus Room]

12:45pm           Wilderness and the Law: The Past 7 years [Olympus Room]

Bill Rodgers, UW Professor of Law

2:00 pm            Concurrent Sessions [4]

 

Compromise - Collaboration: Defining the Public Interest  [Olympus Room]

Kevin Marsh, Ph.D., Author & Professor, Idaho State University

Janine Blaeloch, Western Lands Project

Tim Coleman, Conservation Northwest

Building Wilderness Support across the Red-Blue Divide [Tahoma 1]

Jim DiPeso, Policy Dir, Republicans for Environmental Protection                           

Len Barson, Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy

Mike Beagle, PNW Field Coordinator, Trout Unlimited

Wilderness Forever? How Can We Keep It Wild? [Tahoma 2]

George Nickas, Exec Dir, Wilderness Watch

Kevin Proescholdt, Isaak Walton League of America

The Care & Feeding of Policy Makers      [Pinnacle]

Ted Willhite, Lawyer & Activist

Andrew Fuller, Community Liaison, Rep. Jay Inslee

Dan Ritzman, Northwest Director, Sierra Club

 

3:15pm Indigenous People & Wildness [Olympus Room]

Dennis Martinez, Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples' Restoration Network

4:30 pm            Climate Change & Wilderness Trammeling [Olympus Room]

                        Jonathan B Jarvis, Regional Director, Pacific West Region, National Park Service

5:30pm             Celebrating Wilderness [Olympus Room]

                         Jay Inslee, Congressman, Washington State’s First Congressional District

6:00pm             No-Host Bar  & Appetizers              [Olympus]

6:30pm          Dinner Buffet and Socializing  [Olympus Room]

 

Saturday – April 5, 2008 – Mountaineer Bldg

 

8:00am             Registration/ Exhibit Viewing [Olympus Room]

9:00am             Welcome to Green King County [Olympus Room]

                         Ron Sims, King County Executive

9:30am             The Arctic Refuge: an Evolving Symbolic Landscape [Olympus Room]

Roger Kaye, Author. Wilderness Specialist, USFWS

10:45am           Concurrent Sessions [4]

 

National Park Wilderness – What’s Needed & How Treated? [Olympus Room]

John Miles, Professor, Western WA University

Tim McNulty, Olympic Park Associates and Author

Kelly Bush, Wilderness District Ranger, North Cascades NP

 Motorized Threats to Wild Lands                  [Tahoma 1]

Karl Forsgaard, Sierra Club

Tom Martin, River Runners for Wilderness

Roz McClellan, Rocky Mountain Recreation Initiative

Connecting Kids and Nature                            [Tahoma 2]

Kintea Bryant, Education Director, Seattle Audubon Society

John Chikotowsky, Program Director, Wilderness Awareness School

Adam Russell, Naturalist, North Cascades Institute

Ocean Wilderness                                                 [Pinnacle]   

Fan Tsao, Marine Conservation Biology Institute

David Fluharty, Professor, UW School of Marine Affairs

Polly Dyer, President, Olympic Coast Alliance

11:45am           Box Lunch pick up box in [Olympus Room]

12:45pm Wilderness Movement: What's Anti-Racism  -Got To Do With It? [Olympus Room]

Ticiang Diangson, Environmental Justice & Service Equity Division, Seattle Public Utilities

Elliott Bronstein, Seattle Office for Civil Rights  

 

1:45pm           Concurrent Sessions [4]

Teens & Wilderness [Olympus Room]

Laura Buger, Student Conservation Corp, Garfield High School

Jaya Gosh, Student Conservation Corp, Garfield High School

Julia Sievert, Student Conservation Corp, Garfield High School

 

Alliance Building: Cross Cultural Organizing  [Tahoma 1]

Shelly Vendiola, Co-Founder, Community Alliance and   Peacemaking Project                               

 

Working in Coalitions - The Wide Way to Wilderness [Tahoma 2]

Cindy Shogan, Exec   Dir, Alaska Wilderness League                                                                         

Ronni Egan, Exec Dir, Great Old Broads for Wilderness

Tom Uniack, Washington Wilderness Coalition

Talk  American about Wilderness                    [Pinnacle]

David Domke,  Professor, UW School  of Communication

3:30pm             Engaging In Wilderness  [Olympus Room]

                        Doug Scott, Policy Director, Campaign for America’s Wilderness

4:45pm             Concurrent Sessions [4]

 

Effective Media Relations [Olympus Room]

Heather Weiner, Media Consultant

Spiritual Values of Wilderness                    [Tahoma 1]

Rev. Halima Thea Levkovitz, Wilderness Activist

Jessie Dye, Earth Ministry

Alam Alli, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Rabbi Olivier Ben-Haim, Bet Alef Meditational Synagogue

Barak Gale, Co-Chair, Steward Creation

Threatened Alaskan Wild Lands & Rivers[Tahoma 2]

Cindy Shogan, Alaska Wilderness League   

Dan Ritzman, Northwest Regional Director, Sierra Club

Russell Heath, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

 

Threatened Western Wild Lands & Rivers  [Pinnacle]

Ronni Egan, Exec Dir, Great Old Broads for Wilderness        

Tom O’Keefe, American Whitewater

Rick McGuire, North Cascades Conservation Council

6:30pm Saturday Dinner Banquet              [Olympus]

7:30pm             Birds of the Arctic  [Olympus]

Stephen Brown, Ph.D., Director Songbird Science, Manomet Center for Conservation Research

9:00pm             Conference Conclusion - Thanks for Participating!