2012 PIELC Panels and Events
Schedule
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Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
P1: 3:45-5:00 p.m. |
P2: 9:00-10:15 a.m. |
8:15 Ethics Workshop |
P10: 9:00-10:15 a.m. |
K1: 6:00-8:00 p.m. |
P3: 10:30-11:45 a.m. |
P6: 9:00-10:15 a.m. |
P11: 10:30–11:45 a.m. |
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K2: 12:30-2:15 p.m. |
P7: 10:30-11:45 a.m. |
K5 12:15 – 2:15 p.m. |
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P4: 2:30-3:45 p.m. |
K4: 12:30-2:15 p.m. |
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P5: 4:00-5:15 p.m. |
P8: 2:30-3:45 p.m. |
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K3: 5:30- 7:30 p.m. |
P9: 4:00-5:15 p.m. |
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8:00 p.m. Doors Open to the PIELC Celebration! |
5:30 p.m. Indigenous Peoples Reception* |
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6:00 p.m Student Reception* |
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6:00 p.m. Alumni Reception |
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P = Panels
K = Keynote Speakers
*= Note the change from Friday to Saturday
Panel descriptions may be found in the Conference Brochure.
2012 PIELC PANEL SCHEDULE
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THURSDAY, MARCH 1
Panels - Time Slot One (3:45 p.m. - 5:00)
- Outlawed and Under Fire: Using the Courts to Protect America's Last Wild Bison (Organizer: Darrell Geist)
- Using CZARA Lawsuits to Force Changes in Oregon Forest Practices and a Novel Form of Clean Water Act TMDL (Organizer: Nina Bell) Audio
- Plastic Bag Bag Legislation and Strategies (Organizer: Debra Higbee-Sudyka) Audio
- The Future of Forest Service Travel Management (Organizer: Sarah Peters) Audio
- Planning for Climate Change (Organizer: Courtney Johnson) Audio
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (6:00 p.m. - 8:00)
- 100th Aniversary remembrance of David Brower Birth
- Richard Heinberg
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2
Panels - Time Slot Two (9:00 a.m. - 10:15)
- Legal Strategies for Fighting Coal Mines in the West (Organizer: Katie Strong) Audio
- A New Age for Forest Planning: Our National Forests under the Obama 2012 Planning Rule (Organizer: Vera Smith)
- Grazing Round-Up: Livestock Litigation (Organizer: Greta Anderson) Audio
- Protecting the Lake Baikal Watershed in Mongolia and Russia (Organizer: Maggie Keenan) Audio
- Environmental Advocacy in a Post-Citizens United World (Organizer: Elizabeth Brown) Audio
- What is the Value of Critical Habitat? (Organizer: Kalyani Robbins) Audio
- Discounting Future Costs and Benefits of Natural Resource Policy (Organizer: Michael Weinerman)
- Economic Development Based on Ocean Monitoring (Organizer: Susan Allen) Audio
- Wolf Litigation: The Next Ten Years (Organizers: Joe Bushyhead & Molly Fales)
- Collaborative Decision Making in Environmental Conflicts (Organizer: Elizabeth Spaulding) Audio
Panels - Time Slot Three (10:30 a.m. - 11:45)
- Theories and Tools for Protecting the Environment under Western Water Law Doctrine (Organizer: Janette Brimmer) Audio
- Preventing Construction of New Nuclear Power Plants (Organizer: Wally Taylor) Audio
- Environmental Justice and Indigenous Peoples Rights: Reducing Carbon Emissions Using Blue Carbon and REDD (Organizer: Diane Henkels)
- Representing Activists: A Guide for Lawyers (Organizer: Ben Rosenfeld)
- Open Ocean Aquaculture and Sustainability (Organizer: Nicole Rinke)
- Endangered Species Act as a Pesticide Reform Tool (Organizer: Josh Vincent) Audio
- Protecting Mongolia, Russia, and Haiti from Mine Pollution (Organizer: Maggie Keenan)
- Protecting BLM-Managed Wilderness Under the Obama Administration: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? (Organizer: Steve Bloch) Audio
- The National Ocean Policy (Organizer: Sarah Winter Whelan) Audio
- Moving Toward a Low-Carbon Economy (Organizer: Rex Burkholder) Audio
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (12:00 p.m. - 2:15pm)
- Lisa Heinzerling
- Lucia Xiloj
Panels - Time Slot Four (2:30 p.m. - 3:45)
- Climate Camouflage for Logging (Organizer: Doug Bevington) Audio
- Clean Air Act Update - Year in Review (Organizer: Dave Bender) Audio
- Uranium Mining and Milling: Environmental Effects and Protection (Organizer: Jeff Parsons) Audio
- Film Screening: Ocean Frontiers (Organizer/Presenter: Nastassja Pace, Outreach Director, Green Fire Productions)
- Listing of Species Under the Endangered Species Act (Organizer: Noah Greenwald) Audio
- Environmental Law and New Frontiers in Cooperative Federalism (Organizer: Kalyani Robbins) Audio
- Dams and Salmon: Conflict Between Renewable Energy, Fishing, and Wildnerness in the Northwest (Organizer: Rachael Lipinski) Audio
- Blowin' in the Wind: Questions About Wind Power (Organizer: PIELC) Audio
- Local Climate Action: Policy Impacts and Opportunities for Implementation (Organizer: Stacy Vynne) Audio
- Exporting Coal from the West: What You Need to Know and How You Can Help Prevent It (Organizer: Jan Hasselman)
- Regulating Air Pollution from Factory Farms (Organizer: Tarah Heinzen) Audio
- National Atmospheric Trust Litigation: A Macro Approach in Addressing the Climate Crisis (Organizer: Meg Ward) Audio
- Challenging Bank Underwriting of Dirty Energy (Organizer: Amanda Starbuck)
- Foot and Pedal: The Relationship Between Oregon's Land Use Laws and Bicyle and Pedestrian Transportation Planning (Organizer: Jason Nelson-Elting) Audio
- Keystone XL Pipeline: Drawing a Line in the Sand (Organizer: Jim Murphy)
- Climate Change, Rising Seas, and Threatened Communities (Organizer: Brook Meakins)
Panels - Time Slot Five (4:00 p.m. - 5.15)
- Transmission Across the US: Facilitation of Coal Generation (Organizer: Carol Overland)
- Taking the Long View When Allocating Water Resources (Organizer: Michael Weinerman) Audio
- Preparing for Climate Change and Energy Uncertainty with Relocalized Economies (Organizer: Doug Black) Audio
- Losing Our Right to Appeal: The Implications of the Section 428 Rider on Public Lands Management (Organizer: Brenna Bell)
- Media Training 101: Think Like a Journalist (Organizer: Camilla Mortensen)
- Crafting Viable Sub-National Forest Management Standards in a Time of Urbanization and Climate Change (Organizers: Blake Hudson & Lance Long)
- Oregon's Territorial Sea Planning Process (Organizer: Gus Gates) Audio
- Energy Law and Policy in the Rockies: Year in Review II (Organizer: Mike Chiropolos)
- The Wilderness Act Hits Middle Age (Organizer: Pete Frost) Audio
- Getting Toxins out of Our Fish: How One Step Made History in 2011 and How Other States Can Follow Suit (Organizer: Lauren Goldberg)
- Legal Strategies to Resist Tar Sands Pipeline and Tanker Expansion in North America (Organizer: Josh Paterson)
- Wolf Restoration: Ecological and Legal Issues (Organizer: George Wuerthner)
- To Sing the Discovery Electronic: E-Discovery--Practical Elements and Proactive Aspects for Lawyers, Clients, and NGOs (Organizer: Michael Nixon)
- Harnessing the Power of Law Students (Organizer: Jill Witkowski) Audio
- Burning Issues with Biomass and Biofuels (Organizer: Mike Ewall) Audio
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (5:30 p.m. - 7:30)
- Atmospheric Trust Litigation Plaintiffs
- Climbing Poetree Performance
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SATURDAY, MARCH 3
Ethics Workshop (8:15 a.m. - 10:15) (Organizer: Daniel Gregor) Audio
Panels - Time Slot Six (9:00 a.m. - 10:15)
The Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve: Successes & Challenges in MPA Implementation (Organizer: Pete Stauffer)
Population and the Environmental Movement (Organizer: Amy Harwood)
The Future of Western Oregon BLM Lands (Organizer: Chandra LeGue) Audio
Economic Growth, the Environment, and Sustainability (Organizer: Michael Weinerman)
Call to Action for Energy Democracy (Organizer: Janine Blaeloch) Audio
Our Adaptation to Sustainability (Organizer: Vernon Huffman) Audio
The Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment (Organizer: David Boyd)
Crater Lake: A Wilderness at Risk (Organizer: Erik Fernandez) Audio
Tribal Land Acquisition: The Struggles and Successes (Organizer: Robin Meacher) Audio
Ceremony as Human Right: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Organizer: Joe Bushyhead) Audio
What Actually Happened in Durban? A Report from the Front Lines (Organizer: Geoffrey Evans)
Realizing NEPA's (or Other Environmental Review's) Potential to Protect Human Health: Challenges and Possibilities (Organizer: Doug Carstens)
Panels - Time Slot Seven (10:30 a.m. - 11:45)
- The "Spotted Owl" of Post-Fire Habitat: Federal ESA Petition to List the Black-backed Woodpecker as Threatened (Organizer: Dr. Chad Hanson)
- Injunctive Relief in ESA Cases Post-Monsanto (Organizer: Marc Fink)
- Regulation of Natural Resources at the Local Level (Organizers: Sam Whalen & Dan Milz) Audio
- California's Marine Protected Area Process: Stakeholder Perspectives (Organizer: Samantha Murray)
- The Mt. Ashland Ski Area Expansion: Does New Analysis of an Unchanged Decision Remedy Violations of Forest Law? (Organizer: Jay Lininger)
- The Future of Aquaculture: The Role of Legal Challenges in Shaping the Finfish Farming Industry (Organizer: Catherine Kilduff)
- Utility Regulation and the Fight Against Coal (Organizer: Sarah Jackson)
- Plantation Thinning on Public Lands: It's Not A Clear-Cut Issue (Organizer: Olivia Schmidt)
- The Sage-Grouse that Ate the West--Unless the West Eats it First! (Organizer: Mark Salvo) Audio
- Activist Debate: With 5 Years Until Irrevesible Climate Change and No End in SIght, What Can Work in Time? (Organizer: Premadasi Amada & Max Wilbert)
- Public Trust and Atmospheric Trust Litigation (Organizer: Jack Tuholske) Audio
- Failure of Government to Protect People, Fish and Wildlife from Mining Impacts in the Klamath-Siskiyou Region (Organizer: Richard Nawa)
- Environmental Impacts of Bottled Water (Organizers: Michael Weinerman & PIELC) Audio
- Fallout from the Blowout: Legal Repurcussions from the BP Gulf of Mexico Calamity (Organizer: Zyg Plater)
- The 2012 Project: A year of Opportunity for Women Environmentalists: Don't Get Mad--Get Elected! (Organizer: Dale Schroedel) Audio
- Stopping Polluters with Local Ordinances (Organizer: Mike Ewall)
- Leveraging The Endagerd Species Act and Other Protections for Oregon's Coastal State Forests (Organizer: Josh Laughlin) Audio
- Oil, Gas, and Minerals: Impasts of Resource Development on Alaskan Indigenous Communities (Organizer: Carl Wassilie) Audio
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (12:30 p.m. - 2:15)
- Professor Zygmunt Plater
- Dr. Tyrone Hayes
Panels - Time Slot Eight (2:30 p.m. - 3:45)
- A Guide to Using FOIA and State Public Records Laws (Organizers: Dave Bahr & Colette Adkins Giese) Audio
- Fighting the Offshore Oil Onslaught (Organizer: Rebecca Noblin)
- Global Warming Litigation (Organizer: Brent Newell)
- The Klamath Basin Settlement: Why it Exists, How it Works, and Next Steps (Organizer: Glen H. Spain) Audio
- Navigating the Criminal Courts: A Guide for Activists (Organizer: Ben Rosenfeld) Audio
- Stormwater Citizen Suits (Organizer: Zachary K. Griefen) Audio
- The Future of BLM's National Landscape Conservation System (Organizer: Phil Hanceford)
- Gasland to Gastoria: From 'Fracking' to Liquefaction, the New Story of LNG Development in Oregon (Organizer: Olivia Schmidt)
- Clean Water Act Section 404: Year-in-Review (Organizer: Jim Murphy) Audio
- Weeding the World: The Destructive War on Invasive Species (Organizers: Jim Olmsted & Brian Sproul) Audio
- Toxics on Trial: Legal Legacies in Pesticide Reform (Organizer: Josh Vincent)
- When $@%! Hits the Fan: Dispersal of CAFO Pollutants (Organizer: Eli Holmes) Audio
- Shoreline Management in a Changing Climate(Organizer: Niki Pace) Audio
- Involuntary Toxics Exposures (Organizer: Lisa Arkin) Audio
Panels - Time Slot Nine (4:00 p.m. - 5:15)
- Rhetoric, Narrative, and Environmental Advocacy (Organizer: Michael Burger)
- Son of Fee Demo: Litigation under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (Organizer: Matt Kenna)
- Water and the Forest Service (Organizer: Josh Hicks) Audio
- Fire Alarm: Confronting Destructive Firefighting Actions in the Heat of the "Battle" (Organizer: Timothy Ingalsbee) Audio
- Enforcement Tools to Clean Up Coal Ash and Waste Coal Dumps (Organizer: Ken Rumelt) Audio
- Restoring Celilo Falls (Organizer: Vincent Mulier) Audio
- Offshore Renewable Energy (Organizer: Emily Jeffers)
- Saving the Endangered Species Act (Organizer: Marty Bergoffen) Audio
- California Energy: Moving Past Reliance on Fossil Fuel Facilities (Organizer: Debra Behles) Audio
- Fighting Fire with Fire: Combating Unconventional Shale Gas Development (Organizer: Guy Alsentzer) Audio
- Environmental Justice: Pathways for Progress (Organizer: Cliff Villa) Audio
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SUNDAY, MARCH 4
Panels - Time Slot Ten (9:00 a.m. - 10:15)
- Water Rights 9-1-1: The Role of Community Activists in Promoting Water Sustainability (Organizer: Rachael Osborn) Audio
- Fishing, Dams, and Drilling: Using the MMPA to Address Increasing Threats to Marine Mammals (Organizer: Kristen Monsell) Audio
- Collaborative Groups: A Step in the Right Direction or Two Steps Back? (Organizer: Olivia Schmidt) Audio
- Wolves in Oregon (Organizer: Nick Cady)
- The Disparate Impacts of Diesel Pollution (Organizer: David Pettit) Audio
Panels - Time Slot Eleven (10:30 - 11:45)
- Federal Loans and Public Interest Ideals (Organizer: John Bonine) Audio
- Transforming Suburbia (Organizer: Jan Spencer)
- Campaign Finance Reform in Oregon: Reducing the Influence of Special Interest Influence in Elections (Organizer: Andrew Narus) Audio
- Aviation, NEPA, and Environmental Impacts (Organizer: Sean T. Malone) Audio
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (12:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.)
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