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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW
Friday-Saturday, April 16-17, 2004
An interdisciplinary symposium exploring the politics, science, economics, and law of wilderness preservation in the American West Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment Ninth Annual Symposium Wilderness: Preserving Nature in a Political World
Principal Funding by:
R. Harold Burton Foundation
Chevron
Friday Speakers
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed …if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence…so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.” - Wallace Stegner, Wilderness Letter, 1960
Why Wilderness Matters Now More Than Ever: MAX
OELSCHLAEGER is the F. B. McAllister Endowed Chair in Community,
Culture, and Environment at Northern Arizona University. Recent books
include The Idea of Wilderness (Yale UP), Caring for
Creation (Yale UP), and Texas Land Ethics (Texas UP) with
Pete A. Y. Gunter. Recent articles have appeared in Natural
Resources Journal, Future, and Sign System Studies.
Max is a board member of Arizona Humanities Council, the Museum of
Northern Arizona, the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, the Arizona
Wilderness Coalition, and Environmental Ethics, Inc.
Wilderness and the Law: ROBERT KEITER is the
Wallace Stegner Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J.
Quinney College of Law and Director of the Wallace Stegner Center for
Land, Resources and the Environment. His books include Keeping
Faith with Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and America’s Public
Lands; The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefining America’s
Wilderness Heritage; and Reclaiming
the Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology, and the West.
Local Communities and Wilderness Protection: T.
WRIGHT DICKINSON is a
fourth-generation rancher. Along with his family, he owns and operates
Vermillion Ranch, a commercial cattle operation in Colorado. T. Wright
has been active in public lands issues since 1985 and has served in
various capacities, including as the Moffat County Colorado
Commissioner; Chairman of the Board for Club 20, a lobbying
organization, which represents 22 counties on Colorado’s western
slope; a Colorado board member of the Western Interstate Region of
Counties; Chairman for the Colorado North West Resource BLM Advisory
Council; and other appointments.
The Economics of Wilderness: RAY RASKER is
Director of the SocioEconomics Program of the Sonoran Institute (SI),
a nonprofit organization that promotes community-based strategies for
conservation and development. Ray conducts workshops to help
communities produce their own socioeconomic profiles, understand
economic realities, and identify opportunities for environmentally
compatible forms of economic development. Before joining SI, Ray was
an economist for The Wilderness Society. Ray also holds an adjunct
position at Montana State University in the Earth Sciences Department.
The Politics of Wilderness Preservation: JOHN
LESHY is the Harry D. Sunderland
Distinguished Professor of Property Law at the University of
California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and is
currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. John was
formerly the Solicitor (General Counsel) of the Department of the
Interior throughout the Clinton Administration, worked on a
congressional committee staff, was a law professor at Arizona State
University, served in the Carter Administration at the Interior
Department, was with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in
California, and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
in Washington D.C. He has published widely on public lands, water, and
other natural resources issues (including co-authoring the standard
text on federal land and resources law), and on constitutional and
comparative law.
The Bush Administration's Wilderness Policies: LYNN
SCARLETT is Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget
at the Department of the Interior, where she serves as both the Chief
Financial Officer and Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department.
Lynn also helps coordinate department-wide environmental policy
initiatives to implement Secretary Gale Norton’s “4 C’s”
vision of conservation through cooperation, communication, and
consultation. She has authored numerous publications on
incentive-based environmental policies, including co-authoring the
report, Race to the Top: State Environmental Innovations,
which examines state environmental programs that utilize incentives,
private partnerships, and local leadership in addressing environmental
problems.
Biodiversity and Wilderness: SUSAN
HARRISON is Professor and Davis
Campus Director for the University of California Natural Reserve
System. Her research interests include plant population and community
ecology, invasion biology, and conservation. Susan is particularly
interested in the role of landscape structure, such as habitat
patchiness and heterogeneity, in shaping patterns of natural
diversity.
Recreation and Wilderness: LIZ
CLOSE is Director of Recreation,
Heritage and Wilderness Resources for the Intermountain Region of the
USDA Forest Service. The Intermountain Region includes approximately
35 million acres of National Forest System land in Utah, Nevada,
Idaho, Wyoming, and California. Her 27-year Forest Service career has
included positions of Northern Region Wilderness Specialist in
Missoula, Montana; National Program Leader for Congressionally
Designated Areas in Washington D.C.; and Acting Deputy Regional
Forester in Ogden, Utah.
Alternatives to Wilderness: CLARK
COLLINS was one of the original
founders of the BlueRibbon Coalition in 1987 and served as its
executive director from 1988 to January 2004. The BlueRibbon
Coalition, which operates under the motto of “Preserving our natural
resources FOR the public instead of FROM the public,” advocates for
recreational access on public lands for motorized and non-motorized
vehicles. The Coalition currently has more than 1,100 member
organizations and businesses nationwide. Under Collins’ direction,
the BlueRibbon Coalition worked with then U.S. Senator Steve Symms
(R-ID) in 1990 and 1991 on federal legislation that resulted in the
establishment of the Recreational Trails Program, which provides $50
million a year for motorized and non-motorized trail improvements in
all fifty states.
Wilderness Designation as a Collaborative Endeavor: JEREMY
GARNCARZ is The Wilderness
Society’s BLM Action Center Outreach Coordinator. Before joining The
Wilderness Society, Jeremy served as the Southern Nevada Director for
Friends of Nevada Wilderness. Jeremy was the point person for the
Nevada Wilderness Coalition during the Southern Nevada Campaign, which
resulted in the passage of the Clark County Conservation Public Lands
and Natural Resources Act of 2002, which designated 452,000 acres of
Wilderness and the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area.
Rewilding North America: DAVE
FOREMAN is Executive Director and Senior Fellow of The
Rewilding Institute, a conservation “think tank” advancing ideas
of continental conservation. He has worked as a conservationist since
1971, including positions for The Wilderness Society, Earth First!,
and the Wildlands Project, which he founded. He has served on the
board of directors for the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, and
the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. He is the author of The Lobo
Outback Funeral Home (a novel), Confessions of an Eco-Warrior,
The Big Outside (with Howie Wolke), and Rewilding North
America (forthcoming from Island Press in July 2004). He was named
by Audubon Magazine in 1998 as one of the 100
Champions of Conservation of the 20th Century.
Agenda: Utah and The Wilderness Experience
F RIDAY, APRIL 16, 20048:00 Registration 8:30 Why Wilderness Matters Now More Than Ever - Max Oelschlaeger 9:20 Wilderness and the Law - Robert Keiter 10:00 Break 10:30 Local Communities and Wilderness Protection - T. Wright Dickinson 11:10 The Economics of Wilderness - Ray Rasker 11:50 The Politics of Wilderness Preservation - John Leshy 12:30 Lunch - Boxed lunches in lobby 1:10 The Bush Administration’s Wilderness Policies - Lynn Scarlett 1:50 Biodiversity and Wilderness - Susan Harrison 2:30 Recreation and Wilderness - Liz Close 3:10 Break 3:40 Alternatives to Wilderness - Clark Collins 4:20 Wilderness Designation as a Collaborative Endeavor - Jeremy Garncarz 5:00-6:00 Rewilding North America - Dave Foreman
S ATURDAY, APRIL 17, 20047:45 Registration 8:15 The View From Here: Utah Wilderness Issues - Scott Groene, Executive Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) Peter Metcalf, Founder, Black Diamond Mark Walsh, Associate Director, Utah Association of Counties State of Utah Representative TBA 9:30 Wilderness, Roads, and Off Road Vehicles Brian Hawthorne, Executive Director, Shared Access Alliance Heidi McIntosh, Conservation Director, SUWA Sally Wisely, State Director, BLM Utah State Office 10:30 Break11:00 Wilderness and Energy Policy Steve Bloch, Staff Attorney, SUWA A. John Davis, Shareholder, Pruitt Gushee Sally Wisely, State Director, BLM Utah State Office 12:00-1:00 Looking Toward the Future - Brad Barber, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental Management, Oquirrh Institute Randy Johnson, Senior Advisor to the Governor, Utah State Office of the Governor John Leshy, Professor of Property Law, University of California Hastings College of Law PRINCIPAL FUNDING R. Harold Burton Foundation Chevron SPONSORS S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation Natural Resources Law Forum Wilderness: Preserving Nature in a Political World For its ninth annual symposium, the Wallace Stegner Center will commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Wilderness Act by exploring the politics, science, economics, and law of wilderness preservation in the American West. One of the most important environmental laws ever passed by Congress, the Wilderness Act has given wilderness preservation a prominent position on the public land policy agenda. Since the Act’s passage, though, the notion of what is wild and deserves preservation has evolved. Traditionally focused on scenic and recreational values, wilderness advocates have become increasingly concerned with biodiversity and ecosystem protection, as well as the economic implications of preservation. Wilderness opponents, however, object to “locking up” vast areas of public land, placing them off limits to the extractive industries and severely limiting access and recreational opportunities. For others, the very idea of wilderness transcends politics, economics, and science. As Wallace Stegner argued in his 1960 Wilderness Letter, wilderness is an “intangible and spiritual resource” -- one that has helped to form our character and shape our history as Americans. The Stegner Center has invited a diverse group of speakers to explore our relationship to wilderness and our efforts to protect it. On Friday, we examine wilderness preservation in the American West, focusing on the history, science, economics, and politics of preservation. On Saturday, we turn our attention to wilderness in Utah. Local speakers, engaged in the state’s ongoing wilderness debates, will discuss their experiences, goals, and expectations. Our aim is to promote a fuller understanding of wilderness as both a public resource and political issue.
Registration Form
Admission to the symposium requires registration and the payment of the following fees. Payment is due at the time of registration.Advance registration is highly recommended as the symposium may sell out. Please check boxes that apply.R EGISTRATION FEES FOR APRIL 16-17$ 80 if received by April 5, 2004 $100 if received on April 6, 2004, or after $ 35 Students/Seniors if received by April 5, 2004 $ 50 Students/Seniors if received on April 6, 2004, or after CLE CREDIT Utah State Bar $ 15 11.5 hours CLE credit Credit may be available in other states; participants from out-of-state must make their own CLE arrangements. Parking $ 3 Parking will be available on the day of the symposium in the parking lots east of the S.J. Quinney College of Law and in the Rice-Eccles Stadium parking lot. If you would like a parking permit, please include an extra $3.00. (Free TRAX passes will be available for the day of the symposium -- please indicate below if you would like a TRAX pass.) REGISTRATION FORM $_________ TOTAL ENCLOSED MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: WALLACE STEGNER CENTER To register, call 801-585-3440 or complete this form and mail with check to: Wallace Stegner Center, 332 S. 1400 E., Rm 101, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0730. P LEASE PRINTNAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP PHONE FAX E-MAIL ADDRESS AFFILIATION STUDENT ID # TITLE / POSITION VISA/MASTERCARD# EXP. SIGNATURE UTAH BAR # I prefer a vegan lunch. Please do not include my name/address in a published list of participants. I plan on riding TRAX and would like a free TRAX pass. To register, call 801-585-3440 or complete this form and mail with check to: Wallace Stegner Center, 332 S. 1400 E., Rm 101, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0730. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 801-585-3440 Fax: 801-581-6897 [email protected]
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