1998 PUBLICINTEREST ENVIRONMENTAL LAWCONFERENCE ADDENDUM ACTIVISTS & ADVOCATES DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY THURSDAY,MARCH 5 THROUGHSUNDAYMARCH 8, 1998
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES & MEALS All keynote addresses and meals will be at the Univ. of Oregon Erb Memorial Union Ballrooom. Please pre-purchase meal tickets at the Registration tables on the Law School steps.
Lunch Buffet: . Only available from 11:45 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. . 12:40p.m.: Open admission to the Ballroom for keynote addresses. Dinner Buffet: . Only available from 5:45 - 6:45 p.m. . 6:45 p.m.: Open admission to the Ballroom for keynote addresses. SPONSORED BYLAND AIR WATER (L.A.W.) AND FRIENDSOF LAND AIR WATER (F.L.A.W.) SPECIAL EVENTS r . Alum~i Reception Lunch With Book Signing . I nes Talamantez EMU Ballroom , (Law Rm. 121) Sponsored by the ENR Progam (Law 12i) Fri. 12:00 - 1:00p.m. Sat. 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Saturday 12:00- 12:40 p.m. ~omingwords by Dean Art for Env'l Advocacy David Abram ~land, Environmental & David Brower Natural Resources law Thursday 5:30 -7:00p.m. Adell McMillam Gallery Near the EMU Ballroom Draffan & Osborn faculty, VO Administrators, L and Career Services. Dr.Michael Fox Indigenous Holocaust Tribunal Joshua Karliner Saturday i0:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Knight Library Reading Rm. Corbin Harney ,- Patrick McCully
I Nature Walks J Stephanie Mills ,Jl. ?it Saturday 9:00 - 11:45 a.m. Rick Springer .Kintigh's Mtn. Home Ranch, f;z.t~ .i I'-.J"-~.J;1 - - Alan Wittbecker By: Sen. Bob Kintigh Green Action Run I~ ~=1--Benefit for Land Air Water Live Music by CALOBO & The Paperboys Saturday 2:30 - 5:00 p.m. Alton Bal~er Parl~ Saturday, March 7th at 9:00 p.m. Spencer Butte Hike, . Sat. 9 a.m. At the Wild Duck Music Hall and Microbrewery (169 W 6th) By: Roy Keene See information Table for More Details Tickets will be on sale at the registration table & at the door.
The 2nd Annual KIDS CONFERENCE Saturday, March 7 See inside for details
IMPORTANT NOTES PANEL TIME CHANGES PLEASE NOTE: Panels preceded by an * indicate a time change or addition from the original brochure. ( ACCOMMODATIONSFOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES) ~.W. is an equal opportunity group committed to cultural diversity & compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This publication will be made available in accessible formats upon request. . For disabilities accommodations, please contact Justin Wirth at 346-3828. Requests for sign interpreters must be made by 8:30 a.m. on the day of the eventfor which an intelpreter is required, either by phone or in person at the registration table. . ABOUT THE CONFERENCE KEYNOTER BIOGRAPHIES The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference is the premier an- nual gathering for environmentalists worldwide. Now in its 16th year, the Conference unites attorneys, students, activists, scientists, and con- cerned citizens to share their expertise, experience, and insights "h Charlotte Black Elk Ogalala Sioux, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. - more than I00 panels, 14keynote addresses, workshops, films, an~r David Brower - Founder of the Earth Island Inst., former Exec. Dir. of the Sierra activities, the Conference has become an event full of energy, innova- Club & Founder of Friends of the Earth. Mr. Brower is the inspiration behind tion, and inspiration for all who participate. This year's theme, Activists much of the environmental movement in the U.S. For the 16thconsecutive year, & Advocates Demanding Accountahility, will highlight individual ef- we are honored to have Mr. Brower present the opening address. forts to secure environmental rights and justice through promotion of Dr. JoAnn M. Burkholder - Assoc. Prof. of Aquatic Botany & Marine Sciences. Dr. Burkholder researches the nutritional ecology of algae, specifically,the effects individual, corporate, and governmental accou'1tability. of eutrophication of algal blooms & seagrass disappearance. She has worked to ( CONFERENCE SPONSORS) increase public recognition of the critical need for accountability among scien- tists. LAND AIR WATER (L.A.W.) L.A.w. is the nation's oldest environ- Luke Cole - As Gen. Counsel to the CA Rural Legal Assistance Foundation's mental law student society. L.A.W.'s sixty-plus members from the Uni- Center on Race, Poverty & the Env't, Mr. Cole represents low-income communi- versity of Oregon School of Law organize the conference on a purely ties & workers throughout California who fight environmental hazards. He volunteer basis. L.A.W. alumni also conduct legal research for envi- emphasizes the need for community-based & led organizing and litigation. Mr. ronmentallaw cases and publish both the Western EI1\'ironmentalLaw Cole serves on the U.S. EPA Nat'l Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Update and the Director). of Puhlic Interest Environmental Lawyers. Dr. Michael Fox - Sr. Scholar, the Humane Society of the United States, & Many L.A.W. members also serve as staff members on the Journal of member of the Bd. of Dir. for the Ctr. for Respect of Life & Env't. Dr. Fox Environmental Law and Litigation. lectures & gives seminars on a variety of topics related to animal welfare, behavior, conservation & bioethics. Author of over 40 books & national syndi- FRIENDS OF LAND AIR WATER (F.L.A.W.) EL.A.W. isa501(c)(3) cated newspaper columnist. Dr. Fox will present "The Vision of a New Eden." non-profit organization started by L.A.W. members in 1993. The board David Gottfried - Pres. of Gottfried Tech. Inc.; Managing Editor of the Sustain- of directors includes graduates and students of the University of Or- able Building Tech. Manual; Founder of the U.S. Green Builders Council. Mr. egon School of Law as well as interested citizens and attorneys from Gottfried's expertise is on issues of sustainable building economics & practices. the community. Its primary interest is the annual Public Interest Envi- Joshua Karliner - Exec. Director of Transnational Resource & Action Center & ronmental Law Conference. Editorial Coord. of Corporate Watch. Author of The Corporate Planet: Ecology (FOOD POLICY) & Politics in theAge of Globalization. Mr. Karliner will present: "Reclaiming the Blue Planet: Building Corporate Accountability in the Age of Globalization." Meals will be served in the EMU Ballroom preceding the keynote Winona LaDuke - Anishinabekwe (Ojibwe) member of Mississippi Band addresses. Please see the insert for this year's menu. Seating is limited Anishinabeg and mother of two children. Founder of the White Earth Land & reservations are on a tirst come, first serve basis. Those purch\. ~ Recovery Project, and the Indigenous Women's Network. Ms. LaDuke was meals will be able to remain at their seats during the keynotes. At.... selected by Time Magazine as one of the 50 for the Future, America's Most end of the meals, additional seating will be available for those not Promising Leaders Under 40 years old, and was the Green Party's 1996Vice- eating. Presidential candidate. She has recently published her first novel, Last Women Land Air Water recognizes the impact our food choices have on our Standing. health, environment, and ethical beliefs. Our pure vegetarian (vegan) Mahesh Chander (M.C.) Mehta. Recipient of the 1996 Goldman Award,the menu is offered to broaden awareness and demonstrate support for a world's most significant award for grassroots environmental activism. He has responsible diet, as well as to provide high quality and delicious food. singlehandedly won over 40 landmark env'l judgements before India's Supreme Court since 1984, making him one of the most successful environmentallitigators CUP POLICY ) in the world. He incorporated env'l protection into India's constitutional framework, established that courts can require compensation in environmental NO DISPOSABLE CUPS WILL BE PROVIDED. suits & that individuals have the right to a clean & healthy environment. Please be prepared to purchase a cup or bring your own. Dr. Mary O'Brien - A dedicated activist, Dr. O'Brien has worked on issues of toxics, NEPA & alternatives to risk assessment for 16years with NCAP, Environ- FOR MORE INFORMATION ) mental Research Foundation, Hells Canyon Preservation Council & ELAW. Dr. Please address all inquires regarding the Conference to: O'Brien will present: "Citizens & Public Accountability: What's the Alternative?" Land Air Water Chris Peters - Pohilk-lahfKaruk, Executive Director of Seventh Generation Fund. University of Oregon School of Law Former owner of a consulting firm for Tribes and community organizations Eugene, OR 97403 throughout Califonia, and General Manger of the Tri-County Indian Development Phone (541) 346-3828 or 346-3878; Fax (54 I) 346-3884 Council, he is an activist long outspoken on environmental issues and protection [email protected] http://www.pielc.uoregon.edu of Indian rights, religious freedom, and sacred lands. For information regarding the University of Oregon School of Law, Terri Swearingen - Recipient of the 1997 Goldman Award,the world's most Natural Resources Law curriculum, or the Environmental Law Clinic, significant award for grassroots environmental activism. Ms. Swearingen led please write to: efforts to halt the building of the nation's largest toxic waste incinerator located in Environmental and Natural Resources Program East Liverpool, OH, just I, I00 ft from an elementary school. University of Oregon School of Law Mary Beth West - Deputy Asst. Secretary of State for Oceans & Space. Ms. Eugene, OR 97403 West currently serves on the Committee on State Responsibility of the Amer. Society of In!,1Law. She has published & lectured extensively in the fields of (DISCLAIMER) international law,ocean law, Indian law & ADR. W. Richard West - Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the The statements and opinions expressed at the Conference belong ~y American Indian. As an attorney & member of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes to the individual speakers. No statements made at the Conference nec- of Oklahoma, Mr.West has devoted his professional life & much of his personal essarily represent the position of the University of Oregon, Land Air life to working with American Indians on cultural, educational, legal, and Water, or Friends of Land Air Water. L.A. W. strives to provide a broad governmental issues. spectrum of opinions in a respectful atmosphere. Please respect the various viewpoints you will encounter at the event. Members of the Press Please contact our Press Coordinator, Andrew Yorra (729-3019), to receive a press release, or to arrange interviews with keynoters and panelists. Of PANELS course, feel free to explore the conference on your own, and speak with whomever you wish. 4:00.5:15 p.m.
Animal Products, Organics, Health & Our Environment (Gilbert 133) Please pick-up the Winter 1998 edition of Land Air Water's Explores the impacts of an animal-hased diet on the glohal environment, our Western Environmental Law Update health, world hunger & our moral integrity. Examines whether we can afford at the Registration Table. to colltinue our current eating hahits. Discusses theproposed Nat' I Organics Follow developments in Western environmental law with the help of the Act & how we can comment and become more involved inpreserving our nation's oldest environmental law society. right to choose the quality offood we eat & how it's produced. Subscriptions welcome. Howard Lyman, Dir. Eating wi Conscience Campaign Dr. VirgilHulse, M.D., Author, "Mad Cows & Milk Gate" QJillRSDAY:~ U. Haapala, Dir., Research & Educ., Oregon Tilth REGISTRATION Different Forest Strategies, Cooperative Forest Action (Deady 208) This panel will discuss efforts hy Zero Cut, activists other than Zero Cw, and .. 2:00 . 6:00 p.m. Front Steps U of 0 Law School green scissors advocates to work together in the appropriations process to slash the ForestService budget. Eliminating suhsidiesfor the ForestService KEYNOTERS timher program may he an idea that hringsforest activists of various ideologies togethe1: 7:00 . 9:30 p.m. Opening Address at the EMU Ballroom Jim Jontz, Dir., WAFC David Brower David Orr, John Muir Project David Gottfried Effectively Lobbying the Oregon Legislature (EMU-Walnut Room) Terri Swearingen You have an issue that needs representation in Salem. What lobbying techniques will he effective? How do legislatorsperceive professional SPECIAL EVENTS lohbyists vs. novice citizens? A variety ofperspectives onlohhying will he presented. 5:30.7:00 p.m. Art for Env'l Advocacy Opening Reception. Join the Tom Novik, M & R Strategy Services Cultural Forum and Land Air Water at the Adell McMillan Art Gallery (by Rep. Floyd Prozanski, Oregon State Rep., (D) the EMU Ballroom). Ben Westlund, Oregon State Rep. Sue Wolling, Eugene Bicycle Coalition WA1{KSHOPS Sustainable Forestry and the Certification Process (EMU-Fir Room) Environmentalists,foresters, and private landowners discuss ecoforestry, 4~ 6:00p.m. sustainableforestry and the thirdparty certificationprocess. Curtin Mitchell, Founder & Pres., Forestcare Deep Ecology (Deady 30I) James Montieth, Founder & Pres., Save the West Deep Ecology describes an approach by which human beings look deeply at Alan Wittbecker,Acting Dir., EcoForestry Institute, Sr. Ecologist their relation to the earth and their responsibilityfor it. Participants will Scott Ferguson, Pres., Individual Tree Selection Management, Inc. discuss how personal values affect the way we view and treat the earth. *Westside Timber Sales Review (Gilbert 102) Topics covered include: the Gaia hypothesis, spirituality and the earth, the Panelistspresent reviews of various timber sales on the westside of the new physics. simplicity, and bioregionalism. Cascade Range. This is an opportunityfor concemed citizens to leam more Dick Roy, Executive Director, Northwest Earth Institute abow planned ForestService threats to ancientforests, wild species, and Bill Devall, "Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered" clean wate1: Responding to Harassment, Threats & Violence (Gilbert 244) Regna Merritt, ONRC Conservationists have been assaulted, attacked at their workplaces. and George Sexton, Santiam Watershed Guardians threatenedfor their efforts tofight em,'l degradation. This workshop offers James Johnston, Cascadia Wildlands Project conservationists methodsfor easing tensions in communities, ideas on Willamette River Restoration: The Sequel (Gilbert 341) handling harassment, safety tips, legal recourse, and a look at who is doing Thefate of the Willamette is one of the most critical issues in Oregon. Leam the harassing what you can do to help protect the Willamette. Concems include species John Lunsford, Western States Center extinction, mercury &pesticide contamination, lost wetlands, & population. Gayle Killam, Water Program Dir., OR Env'l Council FILMS & SLIDESHOWS Don Francis Riverkeeper,Willamette Riverkeepers Women and Landscape (EMU-Ben Linder) 4:00.5:15 p.m. A discussion of the difficulties andjoys of speaking and writingfor the environmelltas women. Rough and Ready Creek: Stopping the NICORE Mine! (Fenton 110) Kathleen D. Moore, Oregon State University, Philosophy Dept. Activists "Rough and Ready" tofight the NICORE mine. Attend an Lorraine Brundage, University of Oregon, Philosophy Dept. educational slide show highlighting the treasures of the picturesque Rough Louise Westling, University of Oregon, English Dcpt. & Ready Creek, and the threat of a large nickel mine in the Sollth Kalmiopsis Roadless Area of Southem Oregon. The NICORE Project would d v one of the most botanically rare and diverse areas in the world. L\-f ahout the rare plants, geology, and what you can do to help. Debbie Lukas, Mining Issues Coord., Or. Chapter of Sierra Club Sandy Lonsdale, Juniper Group Chair, Sierra Club Amy Schell, Kalmiopsis EarthFirst! Special thanks to Living Tree for providing us a discount on this ~~~ Steve Marsden, Program Dir., Siskiyou Project 100% Vanguard hemp & cotton paper. Printed with soy inks. ...<~tt1 PAPER COMPANY 800-309-2974 . Managing Your Information Ecosystem (Limited to 15) (Law CompoLab) (FRIDAY; MARCH 6 ) Details on organizing your email from clients to help prevent information REGISTRATION overload, and the effective use of "search engines" to make the Web into your personal research library. Follow-up lessons available on-line. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Front Steps U of a Law School Instructors from "One NW", Seattle, WA 't, KEYNOTERS FILMS & SLIDESHOWS '-J
12:45 -2:00 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. Dr. Mary O'Brien Chris Peters Alaska's Tongass (Gilbert 138) 7:00 -9:00 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom Slideshow of Tongass Nat'l Forest inAlaska used by Oregoniansfor Labor Dr. JoAnn M. Burkholder Intensive ForestEconomics topersuade Congress to end timber priority Dr. Michael Fox management. Includes aspects of logging,politics, economics, raw beauty of Mary Beth West Alaska, victories of the little people, & banning clearcuts here in Oregon. Emily Anderson, Orgz" Lobbyist: Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic MEALS / CELEBRATION 4:00 -5:15 p.m. 11:45 -12:45 p.m. Lunch -EMU Ballroom (See menu for details) Endangered Species of the Southwest (Gilbert 231) 5:45 -6:45 p.m. Dinner -EMU Ballroom (See menu for details) Slideshow e.\ploresthe endangered wildlife &plant species in the southwest- ern U.S., and discusses wildlife &plant habitat protection programs. Slides 9:00 p.m. - Midnight: Music at Agate Hall with The Garden Weasels & include thejaguar, Mexican wolf, CA condor, whooping crane & others.
Zydablue m $5.00Admission- Music,Dancing& Refreshments. Dr. Robin Silver, Photographer, SW Ctr. Biological Diversity Winter Boreal Forest Field Trip (Alberta, Canada) (EMU-Ben Linder) SPECIAL EVENTS Now you see it, now you don't. That's thefate of Alberta's Boreal Forest. Concerned? These "weeds," with 15% evergreen dispersed,form the largest A Round Table Lunch with Inez Talamantez, sponso~edby the ENR C02 sink on this continent, transpiring oxygen, retaining soil and soil Program at the UO Law School. Please bring your own lunch & enjoy a moisture, arresting erosion, and supporting threatenedf/ora andfauna. discussion on population, pollution & envt. (12 - 1 p.m. Law Rm 121.) Jerry Paschen, Director, Canadians for Responsible Development
The Native American Student Union will open the longhouse located at PANELS 1606 Columbia St. on Fri. from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. On Sat., breakfast will be served from 8:30 -10 a.m. and the longhouse will be open until 3 p.m. 9:00.10:15 a.m. WORKSHOPS Animal Rights & the Envt: Cooperation or Conflict? (Law 121) \"",/I 9:00 - 11:00 a. m. Continued debate on the interweaving of the animal rights and env'l movements: Where do they convergeand divel:f?e?How can they more Citizens Guide to the ESA (Gilbert 336) effectively understand and support each other? Differingperspectives. The Endangered Species Act has been called the "Bulldog of Env'l Laws." Jonathan Paul, Activist The Clinton Admin. has limited this statute giving unprecedented benefits to Laurence Weiss,Attorney (Calif.) land developers. Learn the strengths in simple terms & information on Benjamin White, Jr., Activist & Int'l Coord. for AWl procedural and substantive requirements that protect biological diversity. Nancy Perry, Director, Grass Roots Campaigns, HSUS Marty Bergoffen, Staff Attorney, Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Ctr. Attorney's Fees in Environmental Litigation (Law 125) Climbing with Ruckus Society (Meet at Law - Front Steps) Issues regarding recording,claiming, negotiating, litigating and handling Teaching non-violent civil actionfeaturing tree-climbing. attorneyfees in env'l litigation. Donna Parker & Ruckus Trainers, The Ruckus Society Matt Kenna, Pub. Int. Env'l Attorney, '92 UO Law Removing Illegal Roads: Road-Rippers Workshop (Gilbert 338) Geoff Hickcox, Pub. Int. Env'l Attorney, '95 UO Law The ForestService alone has over 440,000 miles of roads cutting through David Gomez, Staff Atty., Western Env'l Law Center their land,fragmenting habitat & devastating ecosystems. Add in the road Peter Frost, Attorney, Nat'!. Wildlife Fund miles on other public lands and the impact is staggering. Learn to:find and Bill Carpenter, Dir., Env'l Litigation Fund, Earth Island Inst. map illegal roads on public land; use existing laws to get the roads closed; Black Sea Environment in Crisis (Law 229) and understand basic road removal techniques. The em,'1degradation of the Black Sea region has reached a crisis point. Bethanie Walder,Wildlands, C.P.R. This panel reviews the history of the region, the recentformation of the UN. Black Sea Env'l Program, the health impacts, the env'l degradation, & the 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. coming together of science & religion to reverse the env'I damage. Appealing a Timber Sale (Gilbert 244) Valerie Brown, Journalist, Eugene Weekly Stay on top of the National ForestSel"\'ice! The timber sale appeal is a Elena Adina-Stefan, Attorney, Romania valuable toolforforest activists & advocates to help save some of our last Environmental Commandments: A Working Session (Law 221) wildlands. This workshop will empower activists and attorneys in the timber This working session will introduce and discuss drafts of commandments sale appeal process. that hm'e been created with the help of these three speakers. These environ- Doug Heiken, Oregon Natural Resources Council mental commandments pronounce the needfor preservation of our planet Dave Werntz, Staff Ecologist, NW Ecosystem Alliance Earthfor our children's children. Audience input and dialogue is sO!lgl Ethics in Environmental Litigation (Law 121) David Brower, Earth Island Institute \",/I Matt Kenna, Atty., Kenna & Hickcox, CO Chris Franklin, Director, Brower Fund, Earth Island Institute Michael Nixon, Atty., Shostak Law Offices, OH David Gottfried, President, Gottfried Technology, Inc. Geoff Hickcox, Atty., Kenna & Hickcox, CO Marianne Dugan, Staff Atty., Western Env'l Law Ctr., OR
'I OxymoronofOur Times:The Car-DrivingEnv'list E.n..;.'..-~.. p- [FRIDA~ MARCH 6 continuedl Glohal warming, road infested forests, ocean pollution. ~&uu.
Getting on With It: PR & Public Media (EMU-Walnut Room) landfills, overconsumption, urban degradation,socialfragmemali,- T c Use ofpuhlic relation strategies to market progressive messages & solutions. seemsto be no limit to the impacts of the car. This panel will gemly prt IJe Coordination among nat'l and int'I groupsfor funding activism & communi- the psyche of the car-driving environmentalist while offering strong options. cr"" 'IScapacities. We'll hear current efforts & ideas. Bring yours! Jan Vander Tuin, Exec. Dir., Center for Appropriate Transport -y James Mateson, Media Island International Loretta Pickerell, Pres., Sensible Transp. Options for People Michael Shellenberger, Dir. of Communication Works Rex Burkholder, Staff, Bicycle Transp. Alliance Dune Lankard, Eyak Rainforest Preservation Council Risk Assessment: Toxics and Your Health v. Their Statistics (Law 229) *John Muir Sierrans: Revolution in the Sierra Club! (Gilbert 238) Dr. Mary O'Brien, Eugene Toxics Coalition The Sierra Club is undergoing an internal rel'ollltionas activists are being Terry Swearingen, 1997 Goldman Winner for Grassroots Activism elected to hoard & volunteer leadershippositions. The John Muir Sierrans *Societal Effects of Grand Juries (Law 125) callfor stronger conservation stances & a refocusing on John Muir's vision. Examines the historical, legal, ethical implications of the Grand Jury David Orr, Exec. Dir., John Muir Project of Earth Island Inst. processes & whether they should he eliminiated. Examines the use of Grand Jeff St. Clair, Env.Editor, Counterpunch Magazine Juries in the Black Panther,Puerto Rican Liberation & ami-war movements. Michael Dorsey, Sierra Club Board of Directors Lawrence Weiss, Attorney (Calif.) Susan Schock, Executive Director, Gila Watch Craig Rosebraugh, Co-Founder, Liberation Collective Oregon Salmon/Steelhead Recovery (EMU-Ben Linder) The Sustainable Fisheries Act (EMU-Ben Linder) This panel will present & critique 0,: Gov.John Kitzhaber's "Oregon Plan" Panel will provide updates on the implementation of the 1996 Sustainahle to save salmon and steelhead. The env'l community has been spilt in Fisheries Act. reaction to the plan. Theplan was instrumental in NMFS's decision not to Joe Plesha, General Counsel, Trident Seafood Corp. list Or,salmon as an endangered species. What is the plan, and will it work? Phillip Smith, Natl. Marine Fisheries Servo (Invited) Jim Martin, State of Oregon, Governor's Office Glenn Spain, Reg. Dir., Pac. Coast Fed. of Fishermen's Assoc. Geoff Pampush, Exec. Dir. Oregon Trout Kristen Fletcher, Research Counsel, MI-AL Sea Grant Lgl. Prg. Lisa Brown, Coast Range Ass'n Yellowstone & Idaho Wolf Reintroduction (Gilbert 231) WardArmstrong, Dir., OR Forest Industries Council The Idaho & Yellowstone wolf reintroductions havefaced many ohstacles. *The Northwest as a Sustainable Macro-Region (EMU-Fir Room.) Although the wolves themselveshave successfully dispersed & bred, a recent A discussion looking at pieces of the Pac.NW 's "Big pjcture": effects of court decision hasplaced thefuture of the project in jeopardy. This panel timher exports & imports, eliminating commercial logging on puhlic lands, will examine the government's position, the on the ground project, and APEC, NAFTA & other labor issues. Also a discussion of state &private whether thefuture "wolf management" will succeed. land use reforms, the Railroad Land Grants, & thefuture for "Cascadia." George Wuerthner, Ecologist, Writer & Photographer Mick Garvin, Co-Founder, Cascadia Forest Defenders Peter Coppelman, Dep. Ass!. Atty. Gen., US Dept. of Justice George Draffan, Author, "Railroads and Clearcuts" Zero Cut: Exciting, Conservative, & Only Honest Solution (Gilbert 238) Karen Coulter, Co-Dir., Ending Corp. Dominance Alliance No more Deals. No more Studies. No more Sacrifice Zones. No more Paige Fisher, Pacific Envt. & Resources Center (PERC) Denials. No more Excuses. No more Riders. No more Logging of Our tW.t of Road Rights-of-Way to Protected Public Lands (Gilbert 231) Public Lands! ZERO CUT! County govts. & others hostile to the protection ofpuhlic lands & creation of Tim Hermach, Founder & Director, Native Forest Council wilderness areas are using an obsolete right-of-way law to carve roads into Chad Hanson, Co-Director, John Muir Project National Parks,proposed and present wilderness areas, and refuges. This Jeff DeBonis, Dir., Pub. Employees for Env'l Resp'!. (PEER) law,R.S. 2477, is a significam and growing threat topublic land protection. Heidi McIntosh, Attorney, So. Utah Wilderness Alliance 2:30 -3:45p.m. Peter Coppelman, Deputy Ass!. Atty. Gen. fOfENR, US DOJ Ted Zukoski, Attorney, LAW Fund ESA: Reauthorization & Legislation (Law 229) Toxic Torts (Law 129) This panel will examine the legislative processes involved in re-allthorizing Robert R.M. Verchick, Prof. of Law, Univ. of Missouri the ESA. Panelists will discuss their work to influence the language of the Corrie J. Yackulic, Partner of Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender new Mill/Kempthorne Bill. Discussion will also focus on the strengths & weaknessesof the hill heing proposed in Congress. 10:30 -11:45 a.m. Daniel Hall, Dir., Forest Biodiversity Prog. WAFC Kim Delfino, Attorney, USPIRG *Challenges to Env'l Lawyers in Central Eastern Europe (EMU-Fir Rm.) Dan Rohlf, Prof., Lewis & Clark Discusses ways in which courts & lawyers in Central Eastern Europe handle Tara Mueller, Dir., Biodiversity Legal Program, ELF env'l problems, the difficulties inpracticing env' I law in CEE, the rolefellow Marty Bergoffen, Staff Attorney, Klamath Siskyou Wildlands Clr. citizens play, and the effect of social &political "climate" in CEE Globalization Debate: Free Trade & Future Liberties (Chapman 207) Rok Lampe, Attorney, Slovenia The Admin. & Congressional forecast for u.s. trade policy will he presented Christian Pup, Attorney, Romania by OR's proactive U.S. Rep. Peter Defazio. This presentation will be Annemary Christine Anwana, Attorney, Romania supplemented by an e:l.planationof int' I solidarity movements& case Federal Land Exchanges & the Public Interest (Law 221) examples offairlahor demonstrations that have resultedfrom NAFTA. Each year more than 200 land exchanges take place hlw the USFS, BLM & Congressman Peter Defazio, U.S. Representative, Oregon private interests, Increasingly these seem to benefit timber,mining, ranching Trim Bissell, Campaign for Labor Rights & development interests. Explore the nature of land exchangepolicy. Dan Goldrich, Prof. Pol. Sci., Univ. of Oregon Janine Blaeloch, Director, Western Land Exchange Project Klamath Basin Water Issues & Solutions (Gilbert 231) Roy Keene, Founder, Public Forestry Foundation The water of the Klamath Basin, vital to birds in the Pacific Flyway, *- th American Mining: Impacts on Indigenous Peoples (Law 129) endangeredfish species,and other wildlife, has heengreatly altered hy 1'V1pact of gold miningonIndigenouspeopleshistorically; thetoxic irrigation, ranching, and development. Panelists will discuss the effects on legacy of old mines; & the new cyanide leach gold mines in the West. hasin and downstream resourcesandongoingeffortsto resolvetheconflicts. Pratap Chatterjee, Mining Campaigner, Proj. Underground Felice Pace, Exec. Dir., Klamath Forest Alliance Chris Peters, Exec. Dir., 7th Generation Fund Glen Spain, NW Reg. Dir., Pac. Coast Fed. of Fishermen's Assoc. Georgia Lukes, CIEPA Craig Bienz, Chief Biologist, Klamath Tribes Fish & Wildlife Pauline Esteves, Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Elder Mike Sherwood, Staff Atty., Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
- Direct Action: The Other Tool in the Box (Gilbert 238) [FRIDA"):,MARCH 6 continued] Direct action campaigns have saved wilderness throughout the Northwest. Lower Snake River Dam Removal: A Reality? (Law 129) Some of theforemost organizers of these campaigns will discuss their direct Snake River salmon & steel/lead are a valuable resource. Due to the action tactics and strategies. operation of hydropower/navigation/irrigation dams. thefish & dependent Joe Keating, Fndr. & Dir., Witness Against Lawless Logging economiesface extinction. "Can we afford to save the salmon?" This panel Mike Donnelly, Pres., Friends of the Breitenbush Cascades '. will discuss a more appropriate question: "Can we afford the dams?" Mick Garvin, Co-founder, Cascadia Forest Defenders ~ Charlie Ray, Idaho Rivers United Lacey Phillabaum, Editor, EarthFirst! Journal Don Sampson, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Comm'n *ICBEMP- Threat to the E.Side Forests & Grasslands! (Condon 204 ) Bruce Lovelin, Exec. Dir., Columbia River Alliance ICBEMP. the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Mngmt. Proj., will Tim Sterns, Exec. Dir., Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition determine thefuture of over 72 million acres of puhlic lands in the Columbia *North Pacific Fisheries: Crisis and Cooperation (Condon 204) Basin. The draft version of the Plan callsfor maintaining current grazing ,Mismanagement. habitat destruction and overfishing threaten the levels & more than douhling logging across the Basin. Possihily ourjinal sustainability of the Russian Pacificjisheries of salmon and pollock. This opportunity toprotect the last of the" eastside" nativeforests & grasslands. panel will discuss strategiesfor Russian and American activists, scientists, George Sexton, Western Ancient Forest Campaign and government officials to work together to protect thesejisheries. Rick Brown, National Wildlife Federation David Gordon, Exec. Dir., Pac. Env. & Resource Center Nathaniel Lawrence, Attorney, NRDC Xanthippe Augerot, Doctoral Candidate, Geography, OSU Joy Belsky, Staff Scientist, OR. Natural Desert Assoc. Douglas DeHart, Chief of Fisheries, OR Dept. of Fish & Wildlife *Law of the Sea (Law 129) Charlotte Kirkwood, Co-Chair, Gore Chernomyrdin Comm'n This panel will discuss recellt-developmelltsin international ocean law. Protecting Roadless Wildlands (Gilbert 238) including the Conference on Law of the Sea, straddling stocks and highly A critique of the new directivefrom the ForestService on roadbuilding and migratoryjish stocks, the Don/lt Hole Treaty.and international whaling. roadless areas. Panelists will also discuss strategiesfor ending taxpayer Mary Beth West, Dep. Asst. Sec. of State for Oceans & Space subsidiesfor roadbuilding and logging in National Forests, road removal Bill Burke, Prof., University of Washington (Invited) politics, and threats to the COI'e/MallardRoadless Area. Jon Jacobson, Law Prof.. UO, Co-Dir., Ocean & Coastal Law Ctr. Jim Jontz, Director, WesternAncient Forest Campaign Public Interest Env'l Litigation in India (EMU -Walnut Room) Bethanie Walder,Wilderness CPR This panel willfocus on some recent citizen enforcement suits heing hrought Jake Kreilick, Native Forest Network in India to curtail industrialpoll/ltion and discuss some of the challenges Rules of Oregon Forest Practice (EMU-Ben Linder) faced by public interest litigators in carrying out their work. As a contrihuting author of the Or.ForestPractices Act, Sen. Kintigh will Seema Midha,1ndian Council for Enviro-LegalAction, India discuss how the Act came into heing & how it has heen periodically revised G. Ramapriya, Env'l Advocate, Chennai, India to keep up w/ changingpublic desires. Scielltistsfollow-up with a discussion Bharat Desai, Centre for Env'l Law, New Dehli, India on how the act reflects the puhlic illterest & changes neededfor thefllfure. Revolutionizing Capitalism: Ending Exploitation in Lat. Amer. (Law 229) Roy Keene, Founder, Public Forestry Foundation Panelists will provide case sflldy examples of revolutionary movements tf' Sen. Bob Kintigh, Pres. ProTempore, OR Leg. inteiface capitalism with organicfarming. labor "unions" and solidari~ Charlie Stone, Dir. of the Forest Practice Prog. for OR cooperatives of Latin America. Dr. Mark Powell, Aquatic Biologist Candido Diaz-Meiga, Pres., ISMAM in Chiapas *Suing Multinationals (Law 125) Trim Brissell, Dir., Campaign for Labor Rights This panel will highlight the history of suing multinationals in their home Should Animals Have Standing? (Law 125) jurisdictions for abuses in other parts of the world. Will review Unocal in What is standing, and to whom should it he accorded? Explores the Burma, ASARCO in Pel'll,and Shell in Nigeria. historical, sociological, economic and legal issues surrounding the denial of Lady Guzman, ELAW, Peru standing to a group of heings that clearly have interests. Rick Herz, Fellow, Lewis & Clark Law School Cathy Meyer,Attorney,Washington D.C. Alberto Saldamando, International Indian Treaty Council Eric Glitzenstein, Attorney, Washington D.C. The Future of Waldo Lake (EMU-Walnut Room) Valerie Stanley,Attorney,Animal Legal Defense Fund WaldoLake is one of the purest lakes in the entire world. The lake nowfaces The Future of the National Wildlife Refuge System (Gilbert 138) threats to itspristine waters. Come learn more aho/lt current efforts to Although 95 years old. the Nat'l WildlifeRefuge System has nl'l'l'rhad clear protect this remarkahle wilderness area. admin. goals hefore 1997. Panelists will discuss what the new "Organic Peter Frost, Attorney, Nat'\. Wildlife Fed. Act" meansfor the administration &funding of our nation's wildlife refuges. Doug Norlen, Policy Advisor, Pacific Env't. and Resource Cnt. Evan Hirsche, Wildlife Refuge Campaign Dir., Nat. Audubon Soc. Shana Pennington, Rep., WaldoWilderness Council Ken Edwards, Div. of Refuges, USFWS Amy Unthank, Forest Fisheries Biologist, Willamette Nat'l Forest Charles Meslow, NW Field Rep., Wildlife Management Institute The War on Wildlife: Federal Abuses on Public Lands (Law 221) The Need for Pesticide Right-To-Know Laws (Chapman 207) Wildlife inhabiting puhlic lands continues to he exploited hy manyfederal Pesticides are used all around us, hut the public lacks comprehensive & site- agencies, including the NPS, ADC, and U.S. FWS. Learn ahOllfsuccessful specific information ahout their use. Explore why states should estahlish strategies employed hy grassroots organizations to counter this war on pesticide use reporting laws & how activists & attorneys can use this i/!fo. wildlife and the challenges that lie ahead. . Tom Dawson, Dir., Wisc. Strat. Pesticide Info. Project Camilla Fox, Wildlife Prog. Coord., Animal Protection Inst. Neva Hassanein, NW Coalition for Altern. to Pesticides, NCAP Brooks Fahy, Exec. Dir., Predator Defense Inst. Laura Weiss, Oregon Environmental Council Nancy Zierenberg, Co-Founder, Wildlife Damage Review Trade, Bugs, & Corp. Deals: Pressure on Pac. Rim Forests (EMU-Fir Rm) How doesfree trade impact PacificRim forests & what can activists do 4:00 -5:15 p.m. about it? What will APEC meanfor regulations that protectforests from cO/17orategreed & exotic bugs? This panel will explore how activists c1 Creative Litigation Strategies for Removing Dams (Law 221) join together to counter deregulation. ~ Idelltifying creative litigation strategies to deconstuct dams in our region. A. Paige Fischer, Director, Pacific Envt. & Resources Ctr. using everythingfrom the CWA & ESA to state water law. Marc Evans. Greenpeace Dan Rohlf, Northwest Env'l Defense Center Faith Campbell, Invasive Species Prog., WAFC Lori Bodi, American Rivers Brian Baille, Prof. of Law, Univ. of Hong Kong Kris Balliet, Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
.. ~ (SATURDA~ MARCH 7 WORKSHOPS REGISTRATION .-~ 9:00 -11:00 a.m. LAND AIR WATER 8:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. Front Steps U of 0 Law School Blockading with the Ruckus Society (Meet at Law - Front Steps) Teaching non-violent civil action featuring hlockading techniques. ~'NOTERS Donna Parker & Ruckus Trainers, The Ruckus Society Filing under the Freedom ofInformation Act (Deady 102) 12:45 - 2:00 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom Charlotte Black Elk Dave Bahr, Atty, Bahr & Stotter, Eugene, OR Luke Cole Dan Stotter, Atty, Bahr & Stotter, Eugene, OR *Managing a Nonprofit Organization (Law 121) 7:00 -9:00 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom Joshua Karliner Workshop teaching how to pelform organizational assessments including W. Richard West analyzing a group's mission, balancing goals, strategic planning,financial planning, & hoard/staff del'elopment MEALS / CELEBRATION Jan Glick, Jan Glick & Associates 3:00 -5:00 p.m. 11:45 -12:45 p.m. Lunch - EMU Ballroom (See menu for details) Creating Land Trusts (Gilbert 341) 5:45 6:45p.m. Dinner - EMU Ballroom (See menu for details) - Highlights non-profit, tax-exemp~ land conserl'Gncies as a conservation tool. How to form a land trust, use land donations, conserl'Gtion easements. helow- 8:00 p.m. Midnight: Benefit at the Wild Duck featuring the music of - market sales & exchanges to consen'e land of natural resource I'alue. Calobo & The Paperboys. Doors open at 8 p.m., music begins at 9 p.m. Bruce White, Asst. County Counsel for Deschutes Co, OR SPECIAL EVENTS . Chris Beck, Proj. Mang., Trust for Public Lands *Environmental PR: Media Training for Activist (Deady 102) Green Action Run: 9:00 a.m. at Alton Baker Park Beating the COIporate/Gol'ernment machine at their own game. Michael Shellenberger, Communication Works Tour of Sen. Kintigh's Mountain Home Ranch: 9:00 - II :45 a.m. *Using Technology to Enhance Outreach to Activists (Law Compo Lab) Family owned, intensively managed timberland & seedling nursery combin- This workshop will e.\plore ways env'l groups can use intemet technologies to ing production with soil, water and wildlife habitat improvement. engage "netizens" in the work of their organizations. Browse the Weh & Booksigning in the Adell McMillan Art Gallery: 12:00 - 12:40 p.m, nplore how to hring these technologies to env'l groups. Nature Walk to Spencers Butte with Roy Keene: 2:30 -5:00 Rob Stuart, Rockefeller Technology Project Alumni Reception: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the Law School (Rm. 121) Marshall Mayer, Fndr., Ex. Dir. of Desktop Assistance
'genous Holocaust Tribunal 10:30-3:00 (Knight Lib. Reading Rm.) FILMS & SLIDESHOWS ~ncil peoples' testimony to determine which laws are heing I'iolated. whose laws are they and how the people are being violated. 9:00 -10:15a.m. Carol Logan, Indigenous Activist Ed Crow & Other Indigenous Council Members Affluenza (Gilbert 133) David Brower calledAffluenza a "scathinglyfunny. powelfulfilm:' See how ( 2ND ANNUAL KIDS CONFERENCE) our onee-thrifty nation has tum into the ultimate consumer culture. ViviaBoe, Co-producer These events will enlighten and entertain tomorrow's activists and advocates, Possibilities of Oregon Wolf Reintroduction (Gilbert 231) Your participation will make this event a successful tradition! Slideshow and discussion of ohstacles and ecological reasonsfor wolf reintroductionin the Oregon wild. 9:00 -10:00 a.m. George Wuerthner,Ecologist, writer, landscape photographer oNature Walk (Front of Ben Linder Room, EMU) Kids take to the outdoors on thisfun and educational exploration 10:30 -11:45 a.m. of our heautijitl area. Presented by: Janet Kenna, Environmental Educator America's Arctic: Visions of Wilderness, not Wasteland (Gilbert 138) 10:30 -11:45 a.m. Slidesholl'of a close-up look at the Arctic, one of the wildest &pristine places oShadow Puppet Show! (Ben Linder Room, EMU) on earth. Explores its heauty. ecological & cultural significance. the life of Presented by: Illuminated Fools the Gwich'in & Jnupiatpeople. & the em'l impact of the oil industry. 2:30 3:45p.m. - Dan Ritzman, Wilderness Guide & Photographer oThe Magic of Weather (Walnut Room, EMU) Oregon Wild! Campaign (Gilbert 23I) Explore weather patterns and their effect on our world & the em't. Slideshow of unprotectedforest wilderness areas the OregonWild!Campaign Presented by Joseph Calbreath of KMTR NBC 16 seeks to protect. Along with an introductionto the campaign. oGardening for Kids (Front of Walnut Room) Ken Rait, Conservation Director, ONRC E.\plore how plants are central to our lives Presented by: Stephanie Schulz, Master Gardener 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. 4:00 -5:15 p.m. oRe-Use It Art! (Walnut Room, EMU) Biodiversity and Agencies out of Control! (Gilbert 238) Create amazing art projects from recycled materials and leal'll hall' Documenting threats to wildlije, aquatic .\pecies, and.f(Jrest ecology. with a our efforts to Reduce. Reuse & Recycle can improve the em.t. focus on Eastem OR's Malhew' and Umatilla Nat'l Forests. The emlwion of Presented by BRING and the Cultural Forum mismanagement: interactive dialogue and necessary solutions. oThe Slimy, Fun of Worm Composting (Front of Walnut Room) Karen Coulter. Co-Director, Ending Corp. Dominance Alliance From a kids perspective: The amazing fun of compo sting and how Asante Riverwind, Dir., Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project anyone can do it! India's Animals...the Sacred and the Suffering (Chapman 207) Presented by: A Master Composter Dr. Michael Fox, Senior Scholar. HSUS
. *Multi-Client Conflicts - Trials & Settlement (Law 125) (SATURDA~ MARCH 7 continuedl Lawyers representingmultiple clients must take care to a\'oid conj7ictsof 4:00 -5:15 p.m. illferest in trial strategy & settlemem. Accountahlity is to all cIiellfs,notjust tile majority. Settlement goals must be clear & client agreement is a must, The War on Wildfire: Turning Saws Into Torchshares (Gilbert 231) Robert J. Shostak,Attorney, Shostak Law Office Trace the NFS's currem disrupti\'e timber andfire managemem practices to Jeff Kodish,Attorney,Kodish Law Firm . newfire policies which may pre\'em logging schemesfrom masquerading as Joseph S. Kodish,Attorney, Sternberg, Newman & Assoc. ~ wildfire protection plans. Learn how to tl/rnfirefigllters imofireligllters. Our Forests, Our Future: Failures of the NW Forest Plan (Gilbert 138) Timothy Ingalsbee, Ph.D., Dir., Western Fire Ecology Center The no'tion tllat Climon's Nortllwest Forest Plan is protecting our National Explore Cook Inlet Alaska (Gilbert 238) Forests is erroneous. Tllis panel will discuss how the Plan isfailing to protect Two time Emmy award winningfilm maker.Daniel Zat:. higlllights Cook drinking water, salmonllabitat, anciem forests, and wilderness. Inlet's spectacular scenery and wildlife including: whales. bears, eagles and Mark Hubbard, Commns. Dir., ONRC salmon. Learn of the tllreatsfrom oil and gas del'elopmemfacing tllis area. Lori Cooper, Forest Protection Coor., Klamath Forest Alliance Stacey Marz, Cook Inlet Issues Coord.. Trustees for Alaska Francis Eatherington, Umpqua Watersheds, Inc. Dave Werntz, Staff Ecologist, Northwest Ecosystem Alliance PANELS Relocation at Big Mountain (EMU-Walnut Room) Discuss tile struggles to maimain traditional Hopi & Dillelllifestyies wllile 9:00 -10:15a.m. figllting to preser\'e land & cultl/re from mining,forced relocatiOlI & cl/ltl/ral genocide at Big MOl/main/Black Mesa Reserserl'Gtion. AK Eyak Fight Against Mining & Logging Old Growth (Chapman 207) Chris Interpreter, Nativ.e Dineh & Big Mountain Activist Randy Altisi, Native Dineh & Big Mountain Activist Tllis panel will focus on tile tllreats resulting from a proposed road construc- tion and coal mining project near Cordol'G, Alaska. 10:30 - 11 :45 a.m. Pat Lavin, Attorney, Trustees for Alaska Dune Lankard, Rainforest Preservation Council David Grimes, Coastal Coalition *Aquatic Invasive Species (Chapman 207) *Animals and Politics (Law 221) Repelling tile attack on our waters: illternational, national. regional, and state responses to tile growing problems posed by aquatic in\'asil'e species. Discusses the maturation of the animal adl"Ocacy movemem: increasing Craig Allen, Dir.. Law & Marine Affairs, Law Prof., UW effecti\'eness in legislating and lobbying on bellalf of G/iimals; effecti\'e tools Allegra Cangelosi, Sr. Policy Analyst, Northeast - Midwest Ins!. for reform; and 11011'to sllow supportfor tile ESA and MMPA. Ben White, Activist & Int'l Coord. for AWl Larry Greene, Nat'l Program Coord., U.S. Coast Guard HQ Mark Sytsma. Ph.D., Grant Coord., Pac. States Fisheries Comm. Wayne Pace lie, Director of Gov 't Affairs, HSUS Does a Const'l Right to a Sustainable Envt. Already Exist? (Law 229) Const'l Limits Law Enforcement Places on Gather & Protest (Gilbert 238) By merely broadening tile inte1pretation ofa rarely litigated clause of tile Recem lIistol)' indicates tllat law enforcement lias been ,'iolating tile Constiflltion, "We, tile people" may be able to justify our en\,'1 rigllts. cOIIStitl/tional rights of acti\'ists througllow tile country. Hear 11011'to defend Charlie Ogle, Ex. Dir., Constitutional Law Foundation your rigllt to gather & protest based on constiflltional pri\'iIeges. Bernard Zaleaha, V.P., Constitutional Law Foundation Mark Harris. Civil Rights Attorney Environmental Toxins and Women's Health (Gilbert 133) Brian Michaels, 1st Amdmt. Attorney, Rainbow Family Discusses tile link between tile proliferation of dioxins & endocrine disrupting Christine Jewell, Atty., Ancient Forest Legal Defense Fund chemicals in our en\'t. & tile increase in ad\'erse health effects inllumans & Environmental Justice in Central Eastern Europe (Gilbert 341) wildlife, with afocus on women's lIealth. E/II,'I & public lIealth groups are Wllo bears the burden of poll wi on in C.E.E.? Are lIuman rigllts being prioriti:ing a chlorine/PVC pilose-ow. Learn wllat YOI/can do. riolated by "progress" as industrial growtll? How is tile elll"lnlOl'emellf Dr. Mary O'Brien. Eugene Toxics Coalition working on tllis issue of justice in CEE? Tllese questions will be addressed. Charlie Cray, U.S. Toxics Campaign. Greenpeace Artur Metani, Attorney, Albania Influencing Local Decision Makers (EMU-Fir Room) Bartosz Clemenz, Attorney. Poland City councils & county commissions create & implement natl/ral resource Hajnalka Benyhe, Attorney. Hungary policies. Learn to be i/ll'olred & lIow to effecti\'ely inj7uence tile decisions. Marieta Vaso. Attorney. Albania Scott Meisner, City Council, Eugene ESA: Policy.and Perspectives I (Law 129) Peg Reagan. Founding Dir., Progressive Leaders Proj. Panel examines Habitat Conserl'Gtion Plans,focusing on the use of tile "no Bever]y Stein, Chair, Multnomah City Bd. of Comm. surprises" clause. Examination of Hcrs & tile illegality of tile "no *Ninth Circuit Env'l Law (Law 229) sl/lprises" clause as an incentil'e for property oll'ners to create HCrs, Del'elopmellfs in 9tll Cir. en\,'llaws. Tile panel will acquaint practicing Eric Glitzenstein, Attorney. Wash. D.C. attorneys & otllers w/ tile recent del'elopments of tile 9tll Ci/: decisions. Brian Gaffney. Attorney Discl/ssion of cases imelpreting major statwes including NEPA, CWA & ESA. Leeona Klippstein, Consv. Prog. Dir.. Spirit of the Sage Council William Carpenter, Dir., Earth Island Inst. Env'l Litg. Fund *Hawaii: Perils in Paradise (Law 229) Peter Sorensen, Lane County Commissioner Once pristine but now one of our most endangered ecosystems, Acti\'ists & Marianne Dugan, Attorney, Western Env'l Law Ctr. ad\'ocates li"O/lIHawaii discuss not only tile tllreats to Hawaii's natl/ral Noxious Weeds (Law 22]) en\'ironmem bw also to tile indigenous culfllre. This pane/'sfocus will be on noxious weeds 011our public lands. Herbicide Denise Antolini. Asst. Prof.. Richardson -Sch. of Law. Hawaii ahatemellf as well a,f biological alternatil'es to and the need to lIalt the Casey Jarman. Univ. of Hawaii illfroduction of new species will be addressed. Dr. Jim Antony, Hawaii-Laieikawai Assn., Inc. Joy Belsky, Staff Ecologist, OR Natural Desert Assoc. Lobbying Influence on Nat'I/Reg'I/Local Land Policies (EMU-Fir Rm.) Caroline Cox, Editor, Journal of Pesticide Reform How do forest issues become national in scope? What role do local, regional, Faith Campbell, Invasive Species Coord., WAFC and national organi:ers play? Lobhying, communication, strategy, and Ralph Bradley. Attorney organi:ation tecllniques will be discussed. Salmon Wars: Inti. Efforts to Renew the Pac. Salmon Treaty (Law ] Liz Butler. WAFC, Wash. D.C. ~ Status of negotiations to resol1'e tile US-Canadian salmon dispute & reacll a Jessica Hamilton, WAFC, Oregon long-term agreemellf on allocation & conservation. Discussion ineludes tile Steve Huddleson, Activist claims of major stakeholders. sOl'ereigns & approaclles to reconciliation. Glenn Spain, Reg. Dir., Pac. Coast Fed. of Fishermen's Assoc. John A. Duff. Assoc. Dir. MS-AL Sea Grant Legal Program
. (SATURDA~ MARCH 7 continued) Punishment Before Trial! The Pepper Spray Cases (Gilbert 138) A discussion & presentation concerning recent pepper spray abuse cases Popl. Growth & Immigr.: Should Policy be Changed? (Gilbert 341) involving eco-activists. Includes video footage of the Eugene & Humboldt Experts discuss the often controversial issue of immigration and its environ- incidents, victims' accounts & the perspective of an activist attorney. mp,7!al impacts. Various views will be presented, both favoring and Jim Flynn, Activist, EarthFirst! Tim Lewis, Videographer ~~ing limits on immigration based on deep ecology principles. Monique Miller, Exec. Dir., Wild Earth Journal Mark Harris, Civil Rights Attorney, Humboldt County, CA Stephanie Mills, Author, In Praise of Nature Dr. Kirk Murphy, Medical Expert Bill Devall, Co-Author, Deep Ecology Redrawing the Map: Weakening the 9th Circuit? (Law 229) Roy Keene, Fndr., Public Forestry Foundation An analysis of the law and politics of Western Congressional interests seeking *The Great Ape Project (Law 125) to spilt the 9th Cir. will be addressed; see who benefits and who loses. Int'I campaign to extend fundamental legal rts. to the Great Apes. Panelists Lisa Kloppenberg, Prof. of Law, Univ. of Oregon discuss topics such as rainforest destruction, human vs. non-human rights, Peter Sorenson, Lane Co. Commissioner the bushmeat controversy & the reaction to GAP as it gains momentum. '" Hon. James Browning, Former Chief Justice 9th Circuit I Steve Ann Chambers, Director, Great Ape Legal Project Starting and Running a Public Interest Law Practice (EMU-Fir Room) Deborah Fouts, Co-Dir. of Chimp & Human Comm. Inst. Examination of the challenges & rewards of starting a public interest law Roger Fouts, Prof., Co-Dir. of Chimp & Human Comm. Inst. firm, including prioritizing issues, generating community support & Paul Waldau, V-P, GAP Int'l, Pres. & Nat'l Coord., GAP USA fi/lldraising. Zero Extraction: An Even Better Solution (Gilbert 238) Linda Krop, Senior S!aff Attorney, Env'l Defense Center No more logging, grazing, mining, and drilling of our public lands and Dan Stotter, Attorney, Bahr & Stotter, Eugene, OR watersheds! Presenting a clear proposal for change. Jack Sterne, Attorney, Eastern OR Tim Hermach, Fndr. & Dir., Native Forest Council Daniel Cooper, Attorney, Baykeepers Susan Schock, Dir., Gila Watch The Politics of Global Warming (Law 221) Larry Tuttle, Dir., Ctr. Env'l Equity Panelists present an update on Global Warming after the Kyoto Conference Roy Keene, Fndr., Public Forestry Foundation from activist, political, and scientific perspectives. Also explored is the revolUtion in global energy systems and their opportunities for the NW. 2:30 -3:45 p.m. Rhys Roth, Exec. Dir., Atmosphere Alliance Dr. Sari, Prof., American Univ. Activists and Their Attorneys (Law 125) Daphne Wysham, Inst. for Policy Studies Discussion of the special circumstances env'l & animal rts. activists & their Robert Fleagle, Prof. Emeritus, Atmospheric Sciences, UW lawyers face; obstacles & how to overcome them; special trial techniques. Will the River Still Run Through It? (Gilbert 231) Lawrence Weiss, Attorney (Calif.) Western rivers' water is being removed at alarming rates, reducing in-stream Howard Lichtig, Attorney flows & harming salmon migration & reproduction. You can use state laws I Derek St. Pierre, Activist, Law Student and administratij'e procedures to restore & protect stream f70w for salmon. ~"'I Policy & Legal Training in India (Deady 208) Karen Russell, Staff Attorney, Water Watch of OR This panel will discuss efforts in India to address the urgent env'l contamina- Chapin Clark, Board Member, OR Water Trust tion problems & weak env'l enforcement through afocus on pollution Steve Hinton, Oregon Trout prevention strategies and better env' I management in the industrial sector. Rachael Paschal, Ex. Dir., Ctr. Env'l Law & Policy Samnath Bhattacharjee, Tata Energy Research Inst., India. Bhaskara Rao, Centre for Symbiosis of Tech., Bangalore, India 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. MK Ramesh, Nat'l Law School of India, Bangalore, India Kishore Vanguri, C.P.R. Env'l Educ. Centre, Chennai, India Battling Oil Industry Injustice--Locally & Globally (Gilbert 133) ESA: Policy and Perspectives II (Law 129) International and national challenges and successes of.fighting oil industry Continuing the discussion of the ESA Part I panel. Shifts the focus to safe abuse. Forming alliances to build a future without oil industry domination. harbors, conservation agreements, and policy involved in utilizing the ESA. Schuyler Fishman, Organizer, Communities for a Better Envt. Leeona Klippstein, Consv. Prog. Dir., Spirit of the Sage Council Alicia Rivera, Community Organizer, La Causa Kieran Suckling, SW Ctr. for Biological Diversity Paulette Lagana, Community Activist Bill Bunch, Save Our Springs Alliance Steve Kretzmann, Oil Campaigns, Project Underground Hunters & Environmentalists: Can't We Just Get Along? (Law 121) Draining Lake Powell (Gilbert 138) This panel explores different perspectives on wildlife conservation among The panel discusses the logistics of a strategy to complete a citizen-led hunters and traditional environmentalists. Emphasis will be on finding environmental assessment of a proposal. Additionally, a panelist will supply i common ground. images of studies supporting the scientific needfor draining Lake Powell. Tom Jones, Chair, Ducks Unlimited, Oregon David Brower, Founder, Earth Island Inst. Angel Gambino, Legal Counsel, Fund for Animals David Wegner, Ecologist Huey Johnson, Pres., Resource Renewal Institute Chris Franklin, Bd. of Dir., Glen Canyon Inst. Oil & Gas Issues in Alaska (Gilbert 133) Patrick McCully, Author, "Silenced Rivers," Int'l Rivers Network Panel focuses on past and present oil & gas development throughoUt AK. *Green Plans: The Working Definition of Sustain ability (Law 125) Includes drilling near the Arctic Nat'l Wildlife Refuge & the Trans-Alaska Green PlallS are comprehensij'e, long-term approaches to policy change. In Pipeline. Will cOl'er the env'l & social changes resulting from the industry. use in Holland & New Zealand, can the U.S. effecth'ely wilize these plans? Stacey Marz, Cook Inlet Issues Coord., Trustees for Alaska Huey Johnson, Pres., Resource Renewal Institute Mike Reily, Program Dir., Alaska Forum for Env'l Responsibility Bob Doppelt, Pres., Ctr. for Watershed & Community Health Dan Ritzman, Wilderness Guide, Northern Alaska Env'l Center Tom Lindley, Attorney, Miller, Nash et. al. '. Dune Lankard, Eyak Rainforest Preservation Council Kevin Godbout, Office of the Envt.,Weyerhaeuser ~'I, Immigr. & the Envt.: Another Perspective (EMU-Ben Linder) Lake Superior: Int'l Agreements & Zero Discharge Zone (Law 221) Population, immigration & the environment is the source of contentious Discussion of major en\" I issues surrounding Lake Superior. Challenges and debate in the env'l movement & beyond. Explore immigration's ecology & successes of working with two go\'ernments and using Lake Superior as a politics & aframework for jointly protecting the envt. & human rights. Zero Discharge Demonstration Zone will be e.\plored. Santos Gomez, Sierra Club Natl. Population Comm't. John Jackson, Past President, Great Lakes United China Brotsky, Transnat'l Resource & Action Center Neil Kagan, National Wildlife Federation
- [SATURDA~ MARCH 7 continuedl (SUNDA~ MARCH 8 continuedJ Legal Tools for Environmental Justice (Law 129) Investigating the legal tools used by env'l justice attorneys representing STRATEGY SESSIONS communities protecting their local environmellfs. Review of the use of Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act, Citizen Suits & Toxic Torts in env'l justice litigation. 10:30 a.m. - on Luke Cole, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment. How do we Save the ESA? (Gilbert 242) NFS Rec. Fee Access Proj.: Pub. Benefit or Timber Subsidy? (Law 229) This session will bring together panelists & conference attendees interested Panelists Ivill examine the implementation, mlue, and pros & cons of the in working out pressing issuesfacing the ESA. Willpromote corroboration National Forest Service pilotfee access project. between people and groups so that a stronger coalition can beformed. Dan Stotter, Ally., Bahr & Stotter, Eugene, OR Andy Stahl, Exec. Dir., AFSEEEE 10:30 a.m. - on Greg Helms, Community Outreach Dir., Env'l Defense Ctr. Forest and Corporations (Gilbert 238) Scott Silver, Wild Wilderness Ideas that will be discussed include: the creation of Logging Industry Info. Northern Goshawk in the West: Controversy Continues (Chapman 207) Ctr., a campaign to end exports oflilifinished woodproducts, campaigns This panel explores the ecology, distribution, and management status of the against the MAl & NAFTA expansion, and types of media, outreach, and Northern Goshawk in western North America and USFWS's "Population" organizing other actions as part of our strategy to confront cOlporatepower. policy. Also, an update on the Goshawk Protection Initiative. Moderator: Jim Jontz, Dir., WesternAncient Forest Campaign Peter Galvin, Co-Founder, SW Center for Biological Diversity Dan Rohlf, Writer & Prof. of Law, NW Univ. FILMS Kieran Suckling, Exec. Dir., SW Center for Biological Diversity Nuclear Waste Transport, Storage & Uses (EMU-Ben Linder) 9:00 -10:15a.m. On highways across N. America, nuclear waste will soon be headed for Yucca Mountain, NV, since Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Transportation Act Eating with a Conscience (Gilbert 342) of 1997. Currently, nuclear waste is used for everything from household Dr. Michael Fox, Sr. Scholar, HSUS appliances to battery powerfor a Cassini Space Station. Corbin Harney, Spiritual Leader, Western Shoshone People 10:30 - 11:45a.m. Judy Treichel, Exec. Dir., Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force Rick Springer, Activist & Author, "Excuse Me, Mr. President" Saving the San Pedro: The SW's Last Free-Flowing River (Gilbert 231) Kathleen Doran, Spokesperson, Irradiation Free Food Dr. Robin Silver, SW Or. for Biological Diversity *Racism, Sexism & Speciesism (Deady 208) Slide show with incredible scenes of the imperiled San PedroRiver and the Examines the systems oftlwught that underlie bigotry and asks how far our diverse wildlife species associated with the rivel: society has really come in dissolving our bigoted attitudes as opposed to simply accepting a new genre of being into our "club." PANELS Andrea Smith, Co-Coord., Committee on Women, Pop!. & Env't Pamela Frasch, Atty., Dir., Anti-Cruelty Div., ADLF 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Paul Waldau, V-P, GAP Int'!, Pres. & Nat'l Coord., GAP USA Sacred Geography: 10 Years After ~ (EMU-Fir Room) Eco-Feminism (Law 129) The panel will address the merits of the 0fl.g decision as applied by U.S. land Discusses the growth of this important area offeminist thought. linking both management agencies during the past ten years. Attention will be on cases of theoretical and practical issues of environmentalism, animal rights, and Native American sacred geography and formulating a theory which supports economic development policies in developing nations. Native American cultural interest in public lands. Nancy Perry, Dir., Grassroots Campaigns, HSUS Jay Hansford Vest, Asst. Prof., Mankato State University Andrea Smith, Co-Coord., Committee on Women, Pop!. & Env't Chris Peters, Exec. Dir., Seventh Generation Fund Nancy Shurtz, Prof. of Law, Univ. of Oregon Charlotte Black Elk, Ogalala Sioux, Pine Ridge Reservation Economic Globalization and Our Forests (Gilbert 341) David Abram, Author, "The Spell of the Sensuous" 95% of timber trade involves multina" I cOlporations. NAFTA, WTO, and the (SUNDAY, MARCH 8 proposed MAl impact our env'llaws, communities, andforests. This panel will introduce and update why trade and investment agreements deserve the REGISTRATION attention offorest and wildlife defenders. Jim Jontz, Dir., WAFC 8:00 -11:00 a.m. Front steps of the Law School Victor Menotti, Int'I Forum on Globalization Paige Fisher, Pac. Env't & Resources Ctr. KEYNOTERS Antonia Juhasz, Preamble Center Ending Corporate Dominance: Alliance Building (Gilbert 133) 12:40 -2:00 p.m. in the EMU Ballroon Tactics and strategiesfor ending cOlporate dominance over ecosystems and Winona LaDuke communities are reviewed. Also, alternatives and how issues of importance M.C. Mehta to you canfit into abroad framework for dismantling cOlporatedominance. Karen Coulter, Co-Dir., Ending Corp. Dominance Alliance MEALS / CELEBRATION Asante Riverwind, Co-Dir., Blue River Biodiversity Project Guerrilla Journalism (Gilbert 238) 11:45 -12:40 p.m. Brunch. EMU Ballroom (See menu for details) A discussion of alternative media and how it can empower activists in the
forest movement. Panelists will present their alternative media techniqul . WORKSHOPS andinsightintoa growingoutreachtool. .... Cindy Noblitt, Producer, Cascadia Alive! 9:00 -11:00 a.m. Kurt Jensen, Photojournalist Understanding Standing (Law 123) Tim Lewis, Videographer Daniel Cooper, Atty., San Francisco Baykeepers Lacey Phillabaum, Editor, EarthFirst! Journal
. Involving the Children: Humane Education & Env'l Ethics (Law 229) Motorized Madness: Resisting Motorized Recreation on Focus on educators & teachers who want to learn how to incorporate Public Lands (Law 221) humane education & env'l ethics into their curriculums. Topicssuch as In parts of the COUllTry,public land mngmnt agencies are racial & gender equality, human & animal rights, sensitivity to our natural shifting theirfocus from resource extraction to "industrial er.".'t, and early activism will be discussed. Teaching aids distributed. recreation." This panel addresses the political causes and . Carol Holst, Dir., Seeds of Simplicity env'l impacts of this shift as well as ways to challenge it. '-' MikeMarkarian,Dir.of Campgn.,FundforAnimals Scott Silver, Exec. Dir., Wild Wilderness Rae Sikora, Co-Dir., Ctr. for Compassionate Living (Invited) Karl Forsgaard, Atty. for Non-Motorized Coalitions *Perspectives on Logging in Municipal Watersheds (Gilbert 231) Jacob Smith, Program Dir., Wildlands Ctr. for Preventing Roads The Great Flood of 1996 highlighted logging impacts on our municipal General Permits: The Devil's Wetlands Bargain? (Law 125) watersheds. This panel will present the scientific and political aspects of Environmentalists celehrated when theyforced the Army Corps of Engineers protecting our watersheds and ensuring a healthy water supply. to agree to withdraw Nationwide Permit 26, the most destructil'e of the Doug Larson, Ph.D., Adjunct Prof. Biology, PSU CO/ps' nationwide permits. However, the CO/ps is now preparing to propose Mike Swaim, Mayor, City of Salem more devastating replacementsj;)r NWP 26. Regna Merritt, ONRC Jim Adams, Attorney, Nat'l Wildlife Federation Mike Donnelly, President, Friends of the Breitenbush Cascades Yvonne Vallette, US Environmental Protection Agency *Removing Old Growth Products from the Marketplace (Law 125) Lyn Mattei, Public Interest Env'\' Attorney Including old growth products in the marketplace condones and may e\'en *Overconsumption in America: How Much is Enough? (Gilbert 342) encourage the cutting of old growth. Keeping these products oW of the Drmringfrom themes presented in thefilm "Aff7uenza"(showing Sat a.m.) marketplace will encourage the cOllSerI'Gtionof old growth. and their own works, these allthors will discuss the relationships hetween Christopher Hatch, Wood Consumption Dir., RAN overconsumption in America and the worldwide ecological crisis. Gaston MacMillan, Cst\. Rainforest Coa\. Dir., RAN Monique Miller, New Road Map Foundation Jessica Hamilton, Northwestern Organizer, WAFC John Ryan, NW Env.Watch Mike Roselle, Wood Reduction Clearinghouse Representative, Board Member, NW Earth Institute Taking Back the Land (Law 221) Should Dogs Have the Right to Vote? (Gilbert 244) This panel willfocus on the N. Pacific railroad land grallT.its role in the rise And other nonsensical misconceptions about the animal rights morement. of huge timher & railroad corporate empires. & the Railroads and Clearcllts Panel explores what it really means to give animals rights, and how ahle Campaign (RRCC) to take back millions of acres of stolen public land. society is to accommodate a nell' legal norm. John Osborn, Coord., Railroads & Clearcuts Campaign Pamela Frasch. Atty.. Dir.. Anti-Cruelty Division, ALDF George Draffen, Dir., Public Information Network Sheri Speede. DVM. NW Dir.. In Defense of Animals Janine Blaeloch, Dir., Western Land Exchange Scott Beckstead, Attorney Rachael Paschal, Exec. Dir., Ctr. for Env'l Law & Policy Worst Kept Secrets: Toxic Inert Ingredients in Pesticides (Law 229) ~'Environmental Law in the Pacific Rim (Gilbert 244) Many hazardous chemicals are used as so-called "inert" ingredients in :rtsfrom the Philippines & Hong Kong discuss en1"I struggles in their pesticide formulations. The panel will talk about the hazards of inert ~ltries including the implications of China's Sm'ereigntr over Hong Kong. ingredients and ways to eliminate the secrets surrounding these chemicals. Brian Bailie, Prof. of Law. Univ. of Hong Kong Mike Wach, Staff Scientist, Western Env'l Law Ctr. Manuel Narvadez, Haribon Foundation. Philippines Norma Grier, Exec. Dir., NCAP Carlos Tadique, Babilonia Wilner Foundation. Philippines Holly Knight, M.S. Environmental Studies
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. Land Air Water thanks the following businesses for their generous support ADR in Environmental Law (Law 121) Uses of Alternative Dispute Resolution in em"I law will be explc,rt~ ;'