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Northwest Environmental Forum

June 15-16, 2011
Center for Urban Horticulture│ University of Washington, Seattle

Forest Watershed Services: Forests for Fish, Forests for Faucets

Purpose Statement and Agenda Outline Revised 6/13/2011
Forum Purpose: The June 2011 Northwest Environmental Forum (NWEF) is intended to help launch a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a demonstration forest watershed services market project in 2011-12, in order to generate useful transaction evidence, in response to legislative direction in Engrossed Substitute House Bill (ESHB) 2541. The intended outcome of the Forum is to flesh out key aspects of the project and secure commitments to participate in an initial project workgroup or workgroups.

2011 Forum Sponsors
Cascade Land Conservancy	Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc.
Ecotrust	Port Blakely Tree Farms
Forest Capital Partners	UW School of Forest Resources
Green Diamond Resource Company	Washington Forest Protection Association
Hancock Timber Resource Group	WA State Department of Natural Resources
Longview Timber Corporation	Weyerhaeuser Company
Merrill & Ring, Inc.	Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation

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Opening Remarks	Windows	Flash
Welcome and Introduction Brian Boyle - Forum Leader, Northwest Environmental Forum (3:08)
Opening Comments Craig Partridge - Director of Policy and Government Relations, WA DNR (1:52)
Opening Comments Lisa Graumlich - Dean, UW College of the Environment (2:14)
Opening Comments Peter Goldmark - Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands, WA DNR (9:55)
Session I: Successful Watershed Services Market Places – What do we know about successes, impediments and specific working examples and new efforts to create them? Making choices about where to act and the role of regulation and willing buyers.	Windows	Flash
Transactions for Watershed Services: A Recipe for Success Tracy Stanton - Water Program Manager, Forest Trends⁄Ecosystem Marketplace (14:06)
Use of Ecosystem Services to Protect Public Drinking Water Karl Morgenstern - Drinking Source Water Protection Coordinator, Eugene Water and Electric Board (16:34)
Northwest Environmental Markets Initiative Alan Horton - Managing Director, The Freshwater Trust (13:32)
Role of non-traditional financing in watershed markets Brad Hunter - Associate Lender, Enterprise Cascadia (17:06)
Session II: A first glimpse of the perspectives and key expectations of potential market participants, regulators, and stakeholders.	Windows	Flash
The supply standpoint – forest owner interests: perspective from large forest land ownerships Kevin Godbout - Director, External & Regulatory Affairs, Timberlands Sustainable Forestry, Weyerhaeuser Company (5:23)
The supply standpoint – forest owner interests: perspective from family forest land ownerships Steve Pruitt - Small Forest Landowner (4:16)
The supply standpoint – forest owner interests: perspective from conservation forest land ownerships Brent Davies - Vice President, Forests and Ecosystem Services, Ecotrust (4:12)
The demand standpoint – water user⁄investor interests: perspective related to drinking water quality Chuck Clarke - Chief Executive Officer, Cascade Water Alliance (5:34)
The demand standpoint – water user⁄investor interests: perspective of municipalities Amy Ockerlander- Public Services Coordinator, Surface Water Management, Snohomish Co. Public Works Dept. (3:16)
The demand standpoint – water user⁄investor interests: perspective related to salmon recovery Jeanette Dorner - Salmon Recovery Program Manager, Nisqually Tribe Natural Resources Department (6:30)
The demand standpoint – water user⁄investor interests: perspective specific to Puget Sound Chris Townsend - Policy and Planning Director, Puget Sound Partnership (7:13)
The regulation standpoint – federal, state, and stakeholder interests: Washington State Department of Health Denise Clifford - Office Director, Office of Drinking Water, WA Dept. of Health (6:18)
The regulation standpoint – federal, state, and stakeholder interests: Washington State Department of Ecology Josh Baldi - Special Advisor, Environmental Improvements, WA Dept. of Ecology (8:57)
The regulation standpoint – federal, state, and stakeholder interests: conservation perspective Darcy Nonemacher - Associate Director, Washington Conservation Programs, American Rivers (5:24)
The regulation standpoint – federal, state, and stakeholder interests: US Environmental Protection Agency Claire Schary - Water Quality Trading Coordinator, US EPA (9:38)
Lunch and Dinner Speakers	Windows	Flash
Lunch Speaker Critical Washington State forest watershed marketplaces: Integrating Forest Service national mapping inputs with regional information (part 1) Critical Washington State forest watershed marketplaces: Integrating Forest Service national mapping inputs with regional information (part 2) Luke Rogers - Research Scientist/Engineer, University of Washington School of Forest Resources

Dinner Speaker Mark Nechodom - Senior Advisor, USDA Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources & Environment
Session IV: A Market Smörgåsbord – Economic Valuation Concepts	Windows	Flash
Valuing Ecosystem Services David Batker - Executive Director, Chief Economist, Earth Economics (29:53)
Supporting Ecosystem Market Transactions: measuring ecological performance Kevin Halsey - Senior Policy Analyst, Ecosystem Services Group, Parametrix (27:59)
Protecting Forest Lands in Puget Sound Using a Watershed Based Approach Stephen Stanley - Project Manager, Washington State Department of Ecology (20:13)
NW Environmental Forum - General Discussion The Forum Participants (24:44) *This discussion took place after the Session IV presentations

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