Trust Management: A Viable Option for Public Forest Lands?

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Agenda

Start Date: June 14, 2012
Location: Embassy Suites, Tigard, OR

8:30	Introduction — Ann Forest Burns, American Forest Resource Council, Portland, OR
8:40	Keynote: Federal Timber Lands Management is Failing Us: Is Trust Management the Answer? US Representative Kurt Schrader (D-OR)
9:00	What is a Trust? A Review of the Legal Principals and Current Case Law — Elaine Spencer, Graham & Dunn PC, Seattle, WA
9:45	What is the Role of Other Statutes, Such as Environmental Policy Act, and Endangered Species Act? Ann Forest Burns, American Forest Resource Council, Portland, OR
10:00	Break
10:30	Current Public Forest Land Trusts Jay O’Laughlin, Policy Analysis Group, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID Washington State Department of Natural Resources — Peter Goldmark, Commissioner of Public Lands, Olympia, WA (Invited) Idaho Department of Lands — David Groeschl, State Forester, Idaho Department of Lands, Coeur d’Alene, ID (Invited) Montana Division of Trust Lands — Shawn Thomas, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Helena, MT (Invited)
11:30	Moderated audience discussion
Noon	Lunch
1:00	Alternatives to Current Approaches Two Trust Proposa l — Andy Stahl, Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, Eugene, OR Western Governors’ Association Task Force on Trust Lands — Ann Walker, Western Governors’ Association, Denver, CO (invited)
1:45	Moderated audience discussion
2:30	Break
2:30	Trust Management in Practice A Structural Proposal: Timber Investment Management Organization Approach — Matt Donegan, Forest Capital Partners, Portland, OR (Invited) A Statutory Beneficiary: Washington State Association of Counties — Josh Weiss, General Counsel/Policy Director, Olympia, WA A Constitutional Beneficiary: Children’s Land Alliance Supporting Schools — Anita Boyum, Ellensburg, WA
3:30	Moderated audience discussion
4:00	Adjourn