The Pacific Northwest Timberlands Seminar provides continuing legal education within the broader context of market conditions, management issues, and emerging opportunities for owners and managers of timberlands.
Participants can expect to learn about the latest legal issues and authorities affecting timberlands, but with a strong dose of information on business and social issues that will be of interest to attorneys and non-attorneys alike. Although the forest products industry is one of the oldest industries in the Pacific Northwest, it continues to offer new issues and opportunities for learning in law, business and policy.
Who Should Attend:
Attorneys
Investors
Municipal Representatives
Conservationists
Tribal Members
Foresters
Individuals Concerned with the Forestry Industry
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
| 9:00 | Welcome and Overview of Day One |
Stoel Rives LLP
Green Diamond Resource Company
| 9:10 | State of the Timberlands and Forest Products Markets, and a Look to the Future |
The Effect of the Recession on Timberlands and Forest Products Markets; The Global Market for Forest Products; Economic Forecast for Forest Products
The Beck Group
Director, Information Services
Western Wood Products Association
| 10:15 | Legal Issues in a Global Forest Products Market |
Understanding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; Illegal Logging and the Lacey Act Amendments
Stoel Rives LLP
Stoel Rives LLP
Stoel Rives LLP
| 11:15 | Keynote Presentation ~ Forest Management and Product Certification |
Forest Certification, the Beta Test: Legal Limits to Sustainability
VP, Sustainable Forests and Products
Weyerhaeuser Company
| 1:00 | Management and Regulation of Biological Resources |
Two Approaches to Safe Harbor Agreements under the Endangered Species Act
Dir., Private Forests Program,
Oregon Department of Forestry
Port Blakely Timber Company
| 2:45 | Wind Energy Development on Private Timberlands |
Challenges in Siting and Permitting Wind Energy Projects on Timberlands in the Pacific Northwest
K&L Gates LLP
Sr. Dir., Pacific NW Development, Everpower
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
| 3:45 | Water Quality and Forest Management |
Am Update on Clean Water Act Litigation and Regulation Affecting Timberlands
Director of Forest Management,
Washington Forest Protection Association
Stoel Rives LLP
Regional Manager, Forests/Rangelands,
U.S. EPA, Region 10
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010
| 9:00 | Welcome and Overview of Day Two |
Stoel Rives LLP
Green Diamond Resource Company
| 9:10 | Climate Policy and Forest Management |
The State of Carbon Regulation; Cap and Trade Programs; Forest Project Offsets
Marten Law PLLC
Equator LLC
The Pacific Forest Trust
| 10:15 | What’s New in Conservation Deals |
Approaches to Timberland Sales for Conservation Benefits
Save the Redwoods League
Columbia Land Trust
U.S. Forest Capital
Ecotrust Forest Management, Inc.
| 11:15 | Keynote Presentation ~ The Mount St. Helens Ring of Fire: Dissecting a Conservation Transaction |
The Mount St. Helens Ring of Fire is one of the largest and most innovative conservation transactions currently proposed in Washington. The three main partners who are creating this vision come from the public sector, conservation, and private land owner sectors. They will discuss process and benefits of forging a partnership that strives to meet a variety of overlapping and complex interests.
Columbia Land Trust
District 1, Skamania County
Olympic Property Group
| 12:00 | Questions and Answers |
Greg D. Corbin, Program Co-Chair, is Chair of the Stoel Rives Forest Products Industry Practice Initiative and a member of the firm’s Resources, Development and Environment practice group. He represents
forest products companies, trade associations, and landowners on regulatory and transactional matters
Tom Beck is President of The Beck Group. For more than 30 years he has worked with 200+ forest products operations throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
Robert “Butch” Bernhardt, Jr. is the Information Services Director for Western Wood Products Association. He oversees communications, product
support, lumber education and international promotion activities.
Svend Brandt-Erichsen, an attorney with Marten Law Group, was previously Regional Administrator of the State of Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation.
Peter Daugherty, is the Director of the Private Forests Program with the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF). He was previously an associate professor of Forest Management and Ecological Economics at Northern Arizona University.
Ruskin Hartley is the Executive Director and Secretary of Save the Redwoods League, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting ancient redwood forests for people.
Glenn Lamb, Keynote Speaker, Executive Director of Columbia Land Trust, has been active with the Land Trust since its founding in 1990, serving as President, VP and Secretary, and since 1999 as Executive Director.
Christian M. Lucky, Stoel Rives LLP, practices in the areas of renewable energy, corporation finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities
regulation, outbound trade regulation, and white collar crime.
James M. Lynch, is a partner at K&L Gates LLP, focuses on regulatory compliance and environmental law with an emphasis on the Federal Power Act, ESA, National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act.
David McClain is Senior Director of Pacific Northwest Development for Everpower. He has spent more than 30 years in the power industry working on the development
of both traditional fossil fuel and renewable energy projects.
Adrian Miller is the Director of Forest Management with the Washington Forest Protection Association, a trade association representing
private forest landowners in Washington State.
J. Mark Morford, a partner at Stoel Rives LLP, has more than 20 years of experience as an environmental attorney.
Wolfgang Ortloff, Director of Environmental Asset Management with Equator LLC, is responsible for originating, developing, and structuring environmental asset products on behalf of Equator and its clients.
Paul Pearce, Keynote Speaker, is serving his second term as a Skamania County Commissioner for District 1. Prior to his first election, he served as a law enforcement officer in Camas, Washington for nearly 30 years.
Cassie Phillips, Keynote Speaker, Vice President, Sustainable
Forests & Products at
Weyerhaeuser Company, directs strategies for forest stewardship and issue management, forest certification, and relationship building with governments, environmental groups and other stakeholders.
David Powers, Regional Manager, Forests and Rangelands for U.S. EPA Region 10, has worked on forestry and water quality issues for 28 years at the international, national, regional, and local levels.
Jason E. Prince is an attorney with Stoel Rives LLP. His practice emphasizes
domestic and international commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and transactional counseling.
Jonathan P. Rose, Keynote Speaker, is the Director of Real Estate and President of Olympic Property Group. Prior to joining Olympic in 1996, he worked as a licensed professional civil engineer for Pac-Tech Engineering.
Galen G. Schuler is the Vice President and General Counsel for Green Diamond Resource Company. Green Diamond owns over 750,000 acres of commercial timberland in California and Washington. Before joining Green Diamond in 2004, he was a partner in the Environment and Natural Resources Practice Group of Perkins Coie LLP.
Court Stanley brings over 25 years of forestry experience to his role as President of Port Blakely Tree Farms LP. He joined Port Blakely in 1985 as a forester.
Paula Swedeen, PhD, Program Director of Ecosystem Services with The Pacific Forest Trust, has 20 years of forest conservation and management experience.
Tom Tuchmann, President of U.S. Forest Capital, provides the firm’s range of advisory services and coordinates the firm’s strategic partners. He has had a 23-year career in forestry, business and public policy.
William O. Vogel, Fish and Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), has served with the USFWS for about 22 years, including 6 years in D.C. with the Office of Migratory Bird Management.
Bettina von Hagen, Managing Director and CEO of Ecotrust Forest Management, Inc., previously served as the firm’s founding CEO from 2003-2006 and as Vice Chair of its Board of Directors since inception.
This seminar is approved for the following homestudy credits:
Oregon State Bar
9.25 General CLE Credits - The Seminar Group is an Accredited Sponsor
Washington State Bar Association
9.0 General CLE Credits
Idaho State Bar
9.0 General CLE Credits
The State Bar of California
9.0 General CLE Credits - The Seminar Group is an approved MCLE provider
The Alaska Bar Association
9.0 General CLE Credits
If you are purchasing only certain portions of the seminar then the full credit amount does not apply. If you need assistance calculating the number of credits available for a certain session please call our office at 800-574-4852. If this seminar has not been approved for the credits you require, let us know and we will look into it for you.
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