PROGRAM Schedule

See below. Some changes and additions may occur.

2024 Plenary Speaker

shiny flanary

Founder, Come Thru Market
Interim Executive Director, Black Food Sovereignty Coalition

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Bob Whitener

Owner & Corporate Executive Officer, The Whitener Group

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Tuesday July 09

1:00pm - 4:00pm - Various Field Trips

5:00pm - TBA unofficial happy hour

Wednesday July 10

7:45am - 8:45pm - Breakfast

9:00am - 10:30am - Introductions and Plenary by shiny flanary

10:30am - 10:45am - Walking Break

10:45am - 12:15 - Concurrent Workshops - Session #1

  • Making Planning Work for Your Trust
    Marc Smiley    , Principal, Solid Ground Consulting

  • Chimacum Ridge Community Forest: Acquisition to Start-up
    Erik Kingfisher    , Stewardship Director, Jefferson Land Trust; Ryen Helzer, Community Forest Manager, Jefferson Land Trust

  • Introducing New Indigenous Land Trusts
    Presenters TBA

  • Prescribed Fire on Conserved Lands
    Lindsay Cornelius    , East Cascades Oak Partnership Manager, Columbia Land Trust; Addtional presenters TBA

  • Bridging the Gap - Fast & Creative Ways to Secure Land While Finding Funding
    Nancy Chase, Pro Bono Negotiations & Acquisition funding , Retired Acquisition specialist; Jon Wickersham, Associate Director, North Coast Land Conservancy; John Rose, Co-founder, Washington Opportunity Fund, Washington Opportunity Fund; Patty Rose, Co-founder, Washington Opportunity Fund; Curt Soper, Advisor, Washington Opportunity Fund; Michael Kirshenbaum, Conservation Director, Skagit Land Trust

  • Wielding Sarcasm and Surprise to Scale Your Integrated Email Campaigns
    Marcy Timblin    , Communications Director, Kaniksu Land Trust; Jaime Jovanovich-Walker, Communications & Development Coordinator, Palouse Land Trust

12:15pm - 1:15pm - Lunch and “Birds of a Feather” Affinity Groups

1:30pm - 3:00pm - Concurrent Workshops - Session #2

  • Going Public: Why You Should Upend Your Board Recruitment Process
    Daniel Student    , Managing Director, Consulting Potrero Group

  • Community Engagement Strategies that Work
    Rika Ayotte    , Executive Director, Deschutes Land Trust; Nick Viele, Facilitator, Partner, c3strategy; Amelia Pape, Principal, Network Approach; Jessica McDonald, Executive Director, Greenbelt Land Trust

  • Land Access, perspectives on the sourcing, development, and program management from Greenleaf and Outgrowing Hunger
    Eric Pond    , Farmer & Program Manager, Greenleaf & Outgrowing Hunger; Adam Kohl, Executive Director, Outgrowing Hunger

  • Community Centric Fundraising: what is it and how do I operationalize it?
    Sean M. Watts    , PhD, Owner, SM Watts Consulting; Emily Torres Barton, Development Director, Greenbelt Land Trust

  • Ecological Forest Management Options for a Changing Climate
    Kirk Hanson    , Director of Forestry, Northwest Natural Resource Group; Adrian Wolf, Stewardship Manager, Great Peninsula Conservancy; Ian Sinks, Stewardship Director, Columbia Land Trust

  • Land Back in the PNW: An exploration of tools and ways to support and promote Native lands in Native hands and investing in healing the land and its people
    Tim Lehman    , Northern Arapaho, Office of Planning and Community Development, Indigenous Planning Stategist, City of Seattle, Office of Planning & Community, Development; Sarah Augustine, Executive Director, Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery; Veryl Pow, Staff Attorney, Sustainable Economies Law Center; Renea Perry, Tlingit/Inupiat/N.Euro, Executive Director, Portland All Nations Canoe Family; Aaron Clark, E'lip Tilikum Conservancy Director, Na'ah Illahee Fund, (moderator); With support from: Janelle Orsi, Co-Founder and Staff Attorney, Sustainable Economies Law Center

3:00pm - 3:30pm - Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm - Concurrent Workshops - Session #3

  • Growing Your Board to Meet the Evolving Needs of Your Trust and Your Community
    Marc Smiley    , Principal, Solid Ground Consulting

  • Fundraising Roundtable: ABCs - Getting your Letters in Order
    Laura Hartner    , Development & Outreach Director, Skagit Land Trust; Jaime Jovanovich-Walker, Communications & Development Coordinator, Palouse Land Trust

  • Wildlife Track & Sign Interpretation for Land Trusts
    Sarah Spaeth    , Director, Conservation & Strategic Partnerships, Jefferson Land Trust, Tracker Certification N America Board Member; David Moskowitz, Tracker Certification N America Board Member and Track & Sign Evaluator, Author of Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest

  • The Forest for the Trees - Collaborative Oak Conservation at Multiple Scales
    Lindsay Cornelius    , East Cascades Oak Partnership Manager, Columbia Land Trust; Sara Evans-Peters, U.S. Assistant Coordinator, Pacific Birds

  • A Roadmap for Growing Land Trust Impact: Lessons from Oregon
    Owen Wozniak    , Land Transactions Program Manager, Land Trust Alliance; Glenn Lamb, Philanthropic Project Manager, Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts; Carlos Garcia, Senior Program Officer for the Environment, Oregon Community Foundation; Brad Paymar, Western Division Director of Field Programs, Land Trust Alliance

  • Collaborative Creative Community Conservation
    Regan Plumb,     Conservation Director, Kaniksu Land Trust; Katie Cox, Executive Director, katie@kaniksu.org; Kayla Mosher, Outreach Coordinator

  • Climate Adaptation Strategies in Practice
    Rowan Braybrook    , Director of Programs, Northwest Natural Resource Group; Justin Hall, President, Nisqually Community Forest; Rolf Gersonde, Forest Ecologist, Seattle Public Utilities; Gustavo Segura Flores, Forester, Northwest Natural Resource Group

5:00pm - 5:15pm - Walking Break

5:15pm - 6:00pm - Cohort Networking

6:00pm - 7:30pm - Dinner Reception

8:00pm - Evening Activities TBA

Thursday July 11


7:45am - 8:45pm - Breakfast

9:00am - 10:30am - Concurrent Workshops - Session #4

  • Supporting Intergenerational Succession and Transfer of Working Lands
    Addie Candib    , Pacific Northwest Regional Director, American Farmland Trust; Kate Delavan, Office of Farmland Preservation Coordinator, Washington State Conservation Commission; Alexandra James, Conservation Director, Capitol Land Trust

  • Getting Through Fear About Asking for Money in Person
    David Allen,     Principal Consultant, Development for Conservation

  • Carbon for Conservation
    Travis Croft    , Program Manager, The Climate Trust; Jeremy Koslowski, Director Forest Carbon Partnerships, The Climate Trust; Colin Meston, Stewardship Manager, North Coast Land Conservancy

  • Building a Diverse Conservation Workforce: Learning as We Go
    Emily Matson    , Natural Area Manager, Columbia Land Trust; Ian Sinks, Columbia Land Trust; Adam Baek, Columbia Land Trust; Jonathan Albarran, Columbia Land Trust

  • Trail Tales: Challenges and Solutions to Storytelling through QR Code-Driven Interpretive Trail Signage
    Tim Dobyns    , Communications and Engagement Director, Friends of the Columbia Gorge; Sara Woods, Stewardship Manager, Friends of the Columbia Gorge

  • Finding the flowers in the trees: stewarding coastal meadows and woodlands of the Salish Sea
    Samantha Martin    , Restoration Ecologist, Ecostudies Institute; Adam Martin, Conservation Science Project Manager, Ecostudies Institute

10:30am - 10:45am - Walking Break

10:45am - 12:15pm - Concurrent Workshops - Session #5

  • Farmland Affordability & Conservation Easements - Discussion of Opportunities and Challenges in Washington State
    Hilary Aten    , Associate Director, Washington Farmland Trust; Duncan Greene, Partner, Van Ness Feldman LLP; Clara Park, Partner, Van Ness Feldman LLP; Robert Farrell, Attorney, Van Ness Feldman LLP; Liberty Quihuis, Associate, Van Ness Feldman LLP

  • Putting the “Community” in Community Forest Planning: Designing a collaborative and inclusive strategic vision framework for the Stewart Mountain Community Forest
    Claire Johnston    , Whatcom Land Trust Communications Director, Whatcom Land Trust; Alex Jeffers, Whatcom Land Trust Conservation Director

  • The Three C’s of Biochar: Carbon, Conservation, and Cultivation. Exploring technologies and innovations that maximize the positive impacts of sequestering carbon in working and native soils
    Keith Veselka    , CEO & Orchard Operations Manager, NWFM LLC; Jim Amonette, Ph.D., Senior Research Geochemist, PNNL and Research Professor of Soil Chemistry, WSU; David Drinkard - VP of Biomass Processing, Qualterra; Sharol Marcec, Ph.D., Field Trial Scientist, Qualterra; Tim O'Brien, VP of Sales & Marketing, Qualterra

  • Small Shop Development Effectiveness: the metrics, benchmarks, and ideas to implement
    Jaime Jovanovich-Walker    , Communications & Development Coordinator, Palouse Land Trust

  • Public Access and Recreational Immunity in Oregon and Washington
    Nancy Duhnkrack    , Pro Bono Program Manager, Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts; Jessica McDonald, Executive Director, Greenbelt Land Trust; Steve Cook, General Counsel, Columbia Land Trust

12:15pm - 1:15pm - Lunch and “Birds of a Feather” Affinity Groups

1:30pm - 3:00pm - Concurrent Workshops - Session #6

  • Monitoring to Increase Resilience
    Amy Borde    , Monitoring Program Manager, Columbia Land Trust; Helen Gavrilov, Land Steward, Columbia Land Trust; Elizabeth Martin, GIS Specialist, Columbia Land Trust; Stacy Simanonok, East Cascades Oak Partnership Technical Coordinator, Columbia Land Trust

  • Shouting Into the Void: Why Social Media is No Longer Working for You and What to Do About It
    Patrick Williams    , Director of Creative Services, Bold Bison; Brandon Hayes, Founder and Principal, Bold Bison

  • Artificial Lawyer EXperience (ALEX): Using AI to Review Conservation Easements
    Rebekah Bergkoetter    , Land Steward, Southern Oregon Land Conservancy; ALEX

  • Climate Grief: Building Understanding and Resilience
    Addie Candib    , Pacific Northwest Regional Director, American Farmland Trust; Maud Powell, Oregon State University Extension

  • Engaging Your Members with Planned Giving
    Laura Hartner    , Development & Outreach Director, Skagit Land Trust; Additional presenters TBA

  • Always Better Together: Watershed Protection
    Nikki Guillot    , Source Water Protection Program Manager, Washington State Dept. of Health; Stan Hoffman, Watershed Protection Coordinator, WA State Dept of Health

3:00pm - 3:30pm - Break Time

3:30pm - 5:00pm - Pre-dinner plenary with Bob Whitener

5:15pm - 6:00pm - Cohort Networking

6:00pm - 7:30pm - Dinner

8:00pm - 10:00pm - Evening hangout

Friday July 12

8:00am - 9:30am - Breakfast, cohort debrief, and prizes