Environmental Summit
on the West II

Sponsored by the Western Governors' Association and the
White House Council on Environmental Quality

April 24-26, 2002

Speakers and Presenters

Plenary I

Plenary II

  • Fred Krupp, Executive Director, Environmental Defense

Plenary III

Community-based Forestry Efforts to Reduce Wildland Fire Risks while Restoring Forest Ecosystem Health

  • Karyn Wood, Forest Supervisor on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest 
  • Diane Snyder, Executive Director, Wallowa Resources

Cooperative Siting of Interstate Energy Infrastructure

Creating and Capturing Value from Industrial Wastes: By-product Synergy -- A case study by CH2M Hill

Partnerships and New Tools to Conserve Open Lands in the West

  • E. Thomas Tuchman, U.S. Forest Capital LP, a forestry and financial services company

Lunch

Tracks and Breakout Sessions I

Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment while Restoring Forest Ecosystem Health

Hosts/Moderators: Governor John Kitzhaber, M.D., Oregon, and Sally Collins, Associate Chief, U.S. Forest Service

Cooperative Siting of Interstate Energy Infrastructure:  A protocol to improve the quality and timeliness of reviews of interstate electric transmission proposals

Hosts/Moderators: Governor Jim Geringer, Wyoming and Roger Hamilton, Energy Advisor, Office of Governor John Kitzhaber

Expanding the Use of Renewable Energy Resources: Expanding the use of renewable energy in the West through markets and incentives 

Host/Moderator: Jeff Burks, State Energy Policy Coordinator, Utah Department of Natural Resources

Meeting Growing and Competing Demands for Water 

Hosts/Moderators:  Ben Grumbles, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, U.S. EPA, and Michael Brophy; Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite; Chairman, Western States Water Council

  • Karl Dreher, Idaho Department of Water Resources
  • J. Dave Mastin, Deputy Minority Leader, Washington House of Representatives 
  • John Echohawk, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado
  • Jim Morsette, Water Resources Director, Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boys, Montana 
  • Susan Cottingham, Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission 
  • Mike Jackson, Jackson & Assoc.; former Dep. Dir., Sen. Indian Affairs Comm.
  • David Hayes, Latham & Watkins; Former Deputy Secretary, Dep. of the Interior
  • Paul Cleary, Oregon Department of Water Resources
  • Jack Stults, Montana Water Resources Division 

Species Conservation While Assisting Landowners in Maintaining Working Landscapes 

Host/Moderator: Ray Ledgerwood, Director of Leadership Services, National Association of Conservation Districts

  • Margaret Soulen Hinson, owner of a large family sheep operation near Weiser, Idaho. (She has lost more livestock to wolves than any other Idaho rancher)
  • Greg Schildwachter,  Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne's Office of Endangered Species
  • Hank Fischer, Consultant
  • Stan Stiver, Nevada Division of Wildlife
  • Rose Strickland, Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club and member of the Governor's Sage Grouse Conservation Team
  • Jim Collord, Northeastern Nevada Stewardship Group's "Sage Grouse Pod"

Partnerships and New Tools to Conserve Open Lands in the West

Hosts/Moderators: Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management, and Budget, Department of the Interior, and Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming State Treasurer

Industrial Environmental Innovation: Value for the Community, Globe, and Bottom Line: Assessing Western perspectives on multi-pollutant proposals for utilities and carbon dioxide strategies

Host: Governor Michael O. Leavitt, Utah

  • Dianne Nielson, Executive Director, Utah Department of Environmental Quality
  • Elizabeth Stolpe, White House Council on Environmental Quality 
  • Vickie Patton, Senior Attorney, Environmental Defense (invited)
  • John Pemberton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Donald Shandy, McKinney Stringer for Holcim (U.S.) Inc.
  • Ed Fox, Pinnacle West/APS
  • Jerry Pardilla, Executive Director, National Tribal Environmental Council

Coal Bed Methane Development in the West

Hosts/Moderators:  Judy Martz, Governor, State of Montana, and Kathleen Clarke, Director, Bureau of Land Management

  • Dr. Charles G. Groat, Director, U.S. Geological Survey
  • Art Reese, Office of Wyoming Governor Geringer 
  • Mickey Steward, Coordinator, CBM Coordinating Coalition, Powder River Basin, Wyoming
  • Dave Brown, BP Amoco, Denver
  • Gwen Lachelt, Oil and Gas Accountability Project, Durango, CO
  • Lowell Braxton, Director, Division of Oil, Gas and Mining; UT Department of Natural Resources
  • Dr Terry Brown, Western Research Institute, Center for Western Coal Bed Methane Development 
  • Gary Bryner, University of Colorado Natural Resources Law Center 

Tracks and Breakout Sessions II

Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment while Restoring Forest Ecosystem Health (continued) 

Cooperative Siting of Interstate Energy Infrastructure (two-part track) 

Host/Moderator:  V.A. Stephens, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Expanding the Use of Renewable Energy Resources: Tapping the Renewable Energy Potential on Federal Lands 

Hosts/Moderators: Governor Jim Geringer, Wyoming, and Kathleen Clarke, Director, Bureau of Land Management

Species Conservation While Assisting Private Landowners in Maintaining Working Landscapes (continued) 

Meeting Growing and Competing Demands for Water (continued)

Partnerships and New Tools to Conserve Open Lands in the West: Science-Based Open Space Planning: New Tools For Planners and Citizens

Host/Moderator: Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management, and Budget, Department of the Interior and Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming State Treasurer

Industrial Environmental Innovation: Value for the Community, Globe, and Bottom Line (two-part track) Breakout II 

Host/Moderator: Robert Wilkinson, Rocky Mountain Institute

  • Andrew Mangan, CH2MHILL
  • Bob Shinn, Former Commissioner, NJ Dept. of Env. Protection (1994-2002)
  • Martha Davis, Manager of Strategic Policy Development, Inland Empire Utilities Agency
  • Jean Claude Roumain, Holcim US (Colorado)
  • Chester Goodson, Holcim US (Utah)

Dinner

  • The Hon. Gale Norton, Secretary, U.S. Department of Interior

Plenary IV & Plenary V

  • Governor Jim Geringer 
  • Governor John A. Kitzhaber, M.D. 
  • Governor Michael O. Leavitt 
  • Governor Judy Martz  
  • James Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality  
  • Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Secretary Policy, Mgmt. and Budget, Department of the Interior 
  • Dave Tenny, Deputy Undersecretary, Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Agriculture 
  • Robert Roberts, Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region VIII 
  • Javier Gonzales, President, National Association of Counties  
  • Jerry Pardilla, Executive Director, National Tribal Environmental Council
  • John Ehrmann, Meridian Institute -- Moderator
 
April 23, 2002