Ecosystem Marketplace: Tracy leads the work on expanding coverage of issues related to payments for watershed services and other markets-based mechanisms for water-related ecosystem services for Ecosystem Marketplace and Forest Trends. Tracy was lead author of the foundational report, State of Watershed Payments: An Emerging Marketplace, published in June 2010, which served to quantify global investment in payment for watershed services. Prior to joining Forest Trends, Tracy worked as a consultant for the National Academy of Public Administration where she collaborated on an assessment of US EPA’s delivery of environmental services using the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a learning platform. She holds a Master in Public and Environmental Policy from the University of Maryland and a BA from The Ohio State University.

Welcoming Remarks

Todd Gartner, World Resources Institute: ToddGartner is a Senior Associate for the World Resources Institute’s People and Ecosystems Program. He focuses on developing new ways to finance conservation though the use of conservation incentives and market-based strategies, such as biodiversity offsets, payments for watershed services, and carbon markets. Todd works with a broad range of stakeholders including landowners, regulators, fortune 500 companies, and local partners to achieve conservation objectives both domestically and abroad. Gartner earned his Master of Forestry degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.S. in finance from University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. Gartner’s previous work included developing and running the conservation incentives program at the American Forest Foundation, field forestry in New England, fire ecology and eco-tourism research in Botswana and India, business


consulting for the USDA Forest Service and several years as a corporate financial consultant. He is also a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow, Switzer Environmental Fellow, Environmental Leadership Program Fellow, and Property and Environmental Research Center Fellow.

Tom Martin, American Forest Foundation: Tom Martin is President and CEO of the American Forest Foundation. He and his sister manage two hundred acres of mixed hardwoods in their family property in Wisconsin. Formerly, he served as the Executive Vice President of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA, the citizens advocacy group for a superlative National Park system). He also served as President and Member of the Board of Directors of Earth Force, Inc., the nation’s largest young people’s environmental and citizenship education and action group. Prior to that he was the ExecutiveVice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Audubon Society.

Tom was Deputy Director of Policy, Budget and Administration, Michigan Department of Natural Resources. As the Founding Director, Michigan Offices of the Great Lakes and Water Resources, State Water Administrator, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, he acted as chief advocate on these issues for Michigan before Congress, international and regional bodies.

Tom is currently a member of the Northland College Board of Trustees. He has served as Board Chair of the Natural Resources Council of America; Chair and Founding Member of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, a $100+M public endowment to fund Great Lakes research and demonstration projects; Chair of the Great Lakes Commission, an 8‑state, regional government organization; as a member of the Governor’s Commission on a Sustainable


South Florida; and as Vice President of the Council of Great Lakes Governors.

Tom holds a B.S. from The American University, Washington DC, a Juris Doctor from the UCLA School of Law, and was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1979.

Opening Plenary

Plenary Session 1: The Current State of Ecosystem Markets

Abstract:

Over the past decade interest in ecosystem services valuation has grown exponentially; major research programs like the Natural Capital Project are being tested around the world; a series of conferences, like this one, are being held to focus attention on the topic; nearly every natural resource association, from the Society of American Foresters to Ecological Society of American are holding sessions on the topic; most large conservation organizations are staffing the issue; and government agencies are being formed to addressit. Conservation banking (for wetlands and biodiversity) is the oldest and most established market; newer markets are emerging for water and air quality, but much more slowly. This panel will explore where we are today, review the pace of progress, and evaluate the lessons, opportunities, and challenges for environmental markets.

Panelists:

Adam Davis, Solano Partners, Inc.:Adam Davis is a Partner and Director of Research, Policy & New Markets for Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP), a private equity fund manager that acquires and manages high priority conservation properties across the United States. EIP delivers competitive returns to its investors through the use of new, market-based mechanisms that reward landowners for the restoration and protection of their natural resources (such as wetlands, streams and endangered species), as well as the sustainable use of


more traditional resources (such as forestry and agriculture). Adam also serves as the President of Solano Partners, Inc., was Co-Founder and previous Editor-in-Chief of the Ecosystem Marketplace.

Craig Hanson, World Resources Institute:Craig Hanson is Director of WRI’s People & Ecosystems Program, which seeks to reverse the rapid degradation of ecosystems and assure their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. He is the lead author of Southern Forests for the Future, the Corporate Ecosystem Service Review, the Corporate Guide to Green Power Markets series, and the Tax Reform, Energy and the Environment series (with The Brookings Institution). Prior to becoming Director, Craig managed the Green Power Market Development Group-US and launched the Green Power Market Development Group-Europe. Prior to joining WRI, he was a management consultant withMcKinsey & Company.

Bobby McCormick, Clemson University, Property and Environment Research Center:Since 2002, McCormick has been a senior fellow and directed the environmental entrepreneurs at PERC, a program designed for professionals who want to have a better understanding of how business and economic principles can be applied to environmental problems. In 2001, he was a Julian Simon Fellow at PERC. He is heavily engaged in the research of carbon sequestration and its impact on global warming. In this research, McCormick is investigating how income affects carbon sequestration as a solution for global warming.

Lynn Scarlett, Resources for the Future: Lynn Scarlett has extensive experience in both government and in academia on issues related to effective stewardship of land, water, and wildlife resources. As Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of


the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2005 to 2009, she had broad responsibilities for federal land management, wetlands, and ecosystem oversight.

Scarlett was Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Interior Department from 2005 to 2009, a post she took on after four years as the Department’s Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget. She was named acting secretary of the Department for two months in 2006, and chaired the Department’s Climate Change Task Force.

From 1982 through 2001, she held a variety of positions at the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation. After leaving government, she was an independent consultant with the Environmental Defense Fund on issues pertaining to climate, ecosystem services, and stewardship of open lands.

She is a member of the national Commission on Climate and Tropical Forestsand was chair of the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council. She serves on the boards of the American Hiking Society and the Continental Divide Trail Alliance and is a trustee emeritus of the Udall Foundation.

Moderated by Sally Collins, Rights and Resources Initiative Fellow, Former Director of the USDA Office of Environmental Markets:Sally Collins is a Fellow for Rights and Resources Initiative, where she co-chairs Megaflorestais, an effort to bring the leaders of forest agencies from around the world together to discuss the issues facing the world’s forests. Prior to this, she served as the first director for the Office of Environmental Markets in USDA, the Associate Chief of the US Forest Service, Forest Supervisor of Deschutes National Forest, and numerous other positions with the USDA and DOI. Sally


also serves on the American Forest Foundation Board of Trustees.

Plenary Session 2: Policies to Support Ecosystem Services and Markets

Abstract:

Federal and state agencies play a central role in facilitating or frustrating market-based approaches to the conservation of ecosystem services. Regulations drive most markets but exiting regulations tend to operate in silos consistent with the agencies and programs in which they are imbedded. The transition to a more efficient, effective, and integrated approach to investment in ecosystem services by the public and private sectors that includes both traditional and innovative strategies will require the adoption of enlightened approaches at every level of government. This panel will offer suggestions and dialogue with participants to examine existing authorities and propose new policy directions. Specific issues include revisions to the next Farm Bill,ecosystem service payments to landowners, the need for strategic investment and enhanced conservation outcomes at relevant scales, and steps agencies can take within existing authorities to stimulate investment prior to the listing of endangered species. The panel will also discuss appropriate roles for government and the private sector in the development of metrics and market infrastructure, including the future of the Office of Environmental Markets.

Panelists:

Jimmy Daukas, American Farmland Trust: Jimmy is the Managing Director, Agriculture & Environment Initiative for the American Farmland Trust. He directs the Trust’s Agriculture & Environment Initiative helping farmers and ranchers improve water quality and combat climate change while maintaining an economically viable agricultural sector. The Initiative focuses on policy solutions, environmental markets and on-farm demonstrations in the Chesapeake Bay, Upper Mississippi River, Ohio


River Basin, California, Washington and New York. Since 1997 Daukas has managed AFT national policy campaigns including the 2008 Farm Bill campaign and held senior management positions in communications and development. Daukas has a BA in economics from Middlebury College and an MBA and MPM from the University of Maryland. He lives in Takoma Park, MD.

Mary Snieckus, American Forest Foundation: Mary Snieckus is the manager of conservation incentives and markets with the American Forest Foundation. A Wisconsin native, she holds a BS in Forestry from UW-Madison, and an MS in Forest Policy from the University of New Hampshire. Prior to joining AFF, Mary consulted on forestry issues and natural resource policy with conservation organizations around the country, and was the first Executive Director of the Forest Guild. Maryworked with communities and businesses as a rural development specialist with the State and Private Forestry branch of the US Forest Service in New England, and began her forestry career on the Tongass National Forest in Thorne Bay, AK.

David Wolfe, Environmental Defense Fund:David Wolfe (M.S. Ecology, University of Georgia, 1993) is Texas Regional Wildlife Director with Environmental Defense Fund. Mr. Wolfe began his conservation career as a field ecologist with The Nature Conservancy and he has since held a variety of conservation science, stewardship and management positions. In 2000 he began working as a scientist with EDF to implement incentive-based programs for conservation of endangered species on private lands in Texas. Mr. Wolfe was a leader in the development of the Fort Hood Recovery Credit System and he


director of the Northwest office. She serves on the Oregon Sustainability Board, American Forest Foundation and Willamette Partnership Boards, and advisory committees for the Doris Duke Foundation, Oregon Institute for Natural Resources, and Oregon Solutions. She successfully promoted conservation incentives and sustainability legislation in Oregon, and bills that encourage state agencies and local governments to use markets and payments for ecosystem services. She is also involved in developing recommendations for policy changes at the federal level and is working on metrics for habitat and biodiversity.

Breakout Sessions

Breakout 1A: Ecosystem Services Markets: Boom Or Bust? Where To From Here?

Abstract:

To judge by murmurings at recent conferences, from policy makers, funders and practitioners, Ecosystem Service markets are falling short of expectations. Were they oversold from the beginning? Or has not enough developmentissues since receiving his master’s degree in environmental sciences at Minnesota State University – Mankato. During the last two decades he has experience as a farmer, conservation agency staff, federal farm policy analyst, a business owner and most recently as the author of EcoCommerce 101, a book published February 2011 that describes an environmental market signal for agro-ecosystems. His business, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC developed an AgEQA delivery model to provide governance and landscape data support for emerging ecomarkets. He, his wife and three sons reside on their farm in southern Minnesota.

Dennis Canty, American Farmland Trust:Canty joined American Farmland Trust in January 2011 as the Pacific Northwest Director. Canty has worked with AFT as a consultant since 2003, helping the organization develop a farmer-friendly approach to salmon recovery,


found and manage the Pioneers in Conservation grant program, and develop opportunities for farmer access to environmental markets. He is co-author of the Farmers and Ranchers Guide to Environmental Markets and numerous articles and briefing papers.

Canty comes to AFT from Evergreen Funding Consultants, a Seattle firm he founded in 2001 that focuses on funding strategies for environmental projects. Canty brings extensive experience working with local and state agencies and governments, non-profit organizations, and Indian tribes throughout the Northwest. Prior to launching Evergreen, he worked as a conservation specialist and watershed planner for a variety of local and federal agencies. He has also been a member of various boards and commissions, currently serving as a mayoral appointee to a committee overseeing a $120 million park and open space bondin Seattle.

Canty holds a B.A. in Environmental Planning from Evergreen State College, and a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as a research assistant on the National Agricultural Lands Study. In the distant past, he has served as a teacher’s aid in a vocational agriculture program, a straw boss for a corn detasseling crew, and a tractor driver during.

Tracy Stanton, Ecosystem Marketplace: Tracy leads the work on expanding coverage of issues related to payments for watershed services and other markets-based mechanisms for water-related ecosystem services for Ecosystem Marketplace and Forest Trends. Tracy was lead author of the foundational report, State of Watershed Payments: An Emerging Marketplace, published in June 2010, which served to quantify global investment in payment for watershed services. Prior


to joining Forest Trends, Tracy worked as a consultant for the National Academy of Public Administration where she collaborated on an assessment of US EPA’s delivery of environmental services using the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a learning platform. She holds a Master in Public and Environmental Policy from the University of Maryland and a BA from The Ohio State University.

Moderated by Sally Duncan, Institute for Natural Resources, Oregon State University:Serendipity provided Sally with a diverse personal and professional background to help build her expertise in working across social and biophysical disciplines, from Australian farm girl to mother to journalism instructor to science writer to video producer to policy research director.

In her work at INR, she is committed to improving the multi-faceted connections between scientific research with all itsregulatory fungicide portfolio at Syngenta. She holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin and North Dakota State University. Michele’s family owns and operates a livestock and corn/soybean farm in central Wisconsin.

Jess McGlyn, World Business Council for Sustainable Development: Jessica McGlyn is Director of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) U.S., Inc. based in Washington DC. WBCSD is a CEO-led, global business association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development. The Council provides a platform for companies to explore sustainable development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums, working with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations. Prior to WBCSD, Jessica was a lobbyist for the World Wildlife Fund where she advocated with US


government on a variety of conservation, climate, trade and development issues. At WWF, Jessica also led an initiative to integrate conservation with development policy and partnered with leading Development NGOs to advocate for modernized U.S. foreign assistance. Jessica started her career in the forest products sector, working for over a decade for International Paper in a variety of environmental and operational positions. Jessica holds a Masters in Science from Yale and a BS in Biology and BA in History from Messiah College.

Peter Dykstra, The Wilderness Society: Peter Dykstra is the Pacific Northwest Regional Director at The Wilderness Society. Based in Seattle, Peter works throughout Washington and Oregon. He also serves on TWS’s Recreation Program Leadership Team.
Prior to joining The Wilderness Society, Peter worked at The Trust for PublicLand for 5.5 years where he served as Washington State Director and managed conservation transactions, lobbied for appropriations, created conservation strategies with partners, and developed local conservation finance efforts across the state. During his tenure, TPL and its partners protected over 35,000 acres and secured over $300 million in conservation funding for Washington State. Prior to getting into land conservation, he worked as a water and land use attorney for a small nonprofit and for two law firms, as well as having a stint as an Assistant Attorney General for Washington.

Peter also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University, teaching Environmental Law and Policy, and has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Land Use Planning Law at the University of Washington. In addition to his conservation and teaching


pursuits, Peter and his wife, Janine, stay busy raising their two children, Ruby and Adam.

Moderated by Suzanne Ozment, World Resources Institute & Stephanie Gripne, University of Colorado: Suzanne Ozment is Research Analyst for the Business & Ecosystem Services project at the World Resources Institute, focusing on how ecosystem services considerations can improve corporate performance. In this role, she assesses and writes about the business implications of ecosystem change, convenes corporate partners to advance innovative strategies that restore ecosystems, and develops business decision support tools. She also provides outreach through platforms such as the Ecosystem Services Experts Directory and the LinkedIn Business & Ecosystems Professionals Group.

Breakout 1C: How do Ecosystem Services Stack Up?

Abstract:

Despite lively debate and discussion on stacking we have few real examples of how stacking is orwill be implemented in existing programs. In this panel, reality will meet theory. Two programs that have been developing methods for stacking multiple services will describe their approach, their hopes for the programs, and their concerns. This will be followed by presentations by two academic researchers who have been involved in policy development of ecosystem markets, and thus have a grounding in experience, but despite this, have contrasting views of the potential benefits and pitfalls of stacking. They will touch on the potential for loss of environmental benefits versus critical gains in market efficiency.

Panelists:

Richard Woodward, Texas A&M University: Richard Woodward is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his undergraduate degree at


Middlebury College. His research has spanned a range of issues in applied economics related to environment and natural resources including choice under uncertainty and the economics of sustainability. In recent years he has focused primarily on the use of market-based approaches to address environmental problems. He has studied market-based approaches for improving water quality, controlling fishing effort, and preventing deforestation. He has also led a team that developed an online tool for teaching market-based approaches, edu.NutrientNet.org.

Jimmy Daukas, American Farmland Trust:Jimmy Daukas directs AFT’s Agriculture & Environment Initiative helping farmers and ranchers improve water quality and combat climate change while maintaining an economically viable agricultural sector. The Initiative focuses on policy solutions, environmental markets and on-farm demonstrations in the Chesapeake Bay, Upper Mississippi River, Ohio River Basin, California, Washingtonand New York. Since 1997 Daukas has managed AFT national policy campaigns including the 2008 Farm Bill campaign and held senior management positions in communications and development. Daukas has a BA in economics from Middlebury College and an MBA and MPM from the University of Maryland. He lives in Takoma Park, MD.

Devin Judge-Lord, Willamette Partnership: Devin Judge-Lordleads the Counting on the Environment Extension Project with the Willamette Partnership. He leads the Partnership’s extension throughout the Northwest, working with local leaders to build programs and with policymakers to develop regionally consistent standards. He also leads the development and integration of protocols for nutrients and sediments into the Partnership’s multi-credit framework. Prior, as a Ducey Fellow for Public Policy, Devin developed theory and methods for assessing ecosystem market viability. He


D.C., she was a researcher with the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s department of global ecology. She received her doctorate from Stanford University, and a masters in forest science from Yale University.

Breakout 1D: Carbon From A Policy Perspective: What’s Next?

Abstract:

Panelists:

Richardo Bayon, EKO Asset Management:

Tiffany Potter, EcoAnalytics: Tiffany McCormick Potter founded Ecoanalytics with 15 years of experience in carbon markets, environmental law and policy, and forestry science. EcoAnalytics, formerly branded as Streamline, is a marketing intelligence, advisory services, and consulting practice for eco-asset development. As founder, she advises clients developing forest, wetland, and agricultural carbon projects in Hawaii, Louisiana, Honduras, Canada, Belize, Russia, and Korea to name a few. Prior, she was recruited to Equator’s EcoProducts Fund’s 100 million dollar private equity fund for environmental markets as Vice President. AsHead of Origination, she managed environmental-asset origination efforts, and managed aspects of carbon and environmental-asset transactions, project development, and policy development. Formerly, she was a senior analyst for Point Carbon, where she launched a first-of-kind trading analytics tool for North American carbon markets used by major banks, hedge funds, and governmental branches of US Government. Prior to that, she was a project director at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. In addition, Ms. Potter has served as a delegate to the World Assembly of the United Nations on matters pertaining to the Kyoto Protocol and as a threatened and endangered species biologist for the National Park Service for eight years and forester to the US Forest Service. Tiffany has a Bachelor’s of Forestry from the University


of Vermont and a Master’s of Environmental Management from Yale University.

Nick Martin, American Carbon Registry:Nicholas Martin is Chief Technical Officer for the American Carbon Registry, the United States’ oldest voluntary GHG registry and standards program. He is responsible for developing new offset protocols, screening projects, overseeing third-party verification, and tracking U.S. federal, regional and state climate policy. Nick has led development of ACR protocols for improved forest management, REDD+, agricultural fertilizer management, livestock manure management, fugitive methane in the oil & gas sector, landfill methane, natural gas energy efficiency, and other areas. He also leads ACR’s work in China developing agriculture, forestry and other land use methodologies for the Panda Standard. Nick came to ACR from Xcel Energy, where he led analysis of climate legislation and regulations foran electric utility serving 8 states and was the company’s lead technical resource on carbon offset project development. Nick earlier managed Winrock International’s terrestrial carbon work under the US Department of Energy – West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, forest carbon research for the US Forest Service and State of California, and measurement of Lower Mississippi Valley reforestation projects. He also worked for the Zuni Indian Tribe in New Mexico, where he created and managed the Zuni Forest Products Enterprise. Nick has a background in forest management, energy and natural resources, with an MS in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley. He serves on the American National Standards Institute’s GHG Validation/Verification Accreditation Committee and on the Panda Standard Technical Committee.

Scott Nissenbaum, Finite Carbon: Scott


served for three years as the lead investor and chairman of the board for ImageTree Corporation, a company with patented platform technology and a proprietary process that provides accurate and consistent assessment of forest resources to improve forest management and financial performance. His close involvement with ImageTree led him to recognize forest landowners’ need for a single-source forest carbon development company that facilitates entry into emerging carbon markets. In addition to his knowledge of the forestry industry, Scott also brings to Finite Carbon a background in finance. He has a B.S. degree in finance from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA in finance from St. Joseph’s University. Scott spent more than a decade as a venture capitalist in the Philadelphia area with Novitas Capital. As president of FiniteCarbon, he was responsible for assembling the management team and oversees the daily operations of the company.

David Tepper, Forest Trends: David Tepper is one of the leading investors in the carbon markets and has been involved in carbon reduction strategies and sustainable land managment strategies since 1999. He was responsible for the carbon finance team that managed over $1billion for Climate Change Capital from 2005 to 2007 and during that time invested over $800m in carbon reduction projects in the emerging markets.. Over the last few years he has been focused on using carbon finance to accelerate land restoration, conservation and sustainable land use around the world. He is a member of the Executive management team for Forest Trends http://www.forest-trends.org , a Washington DC based NGO focused on


using market mechanisms and payment for ecosystem services to finance sustainable land use. David is an expert on structuring private sector finance with emerging climate change regulatory and voluntary markets. He advices Governments, multi-laterals project developers and private investors on the design of terrestrial carbon finance opportunities. David is developing public private sector mechanisms and financial architecture in the emerging REDD markets. David is also the Managing Partner of The Earth Partners http://www.theearthpartners.com , a North American based land restoration developer of degraded lands and bioenergy supplier, utilizing traditional conservation finance and agricultural and forestry models with emerging bio-energy crops and payment for ecosystem services. The Earth Partners has developed a soil quantification methodology and has been testing the method and its applications on low carbon farming andland restoration projects at the landscape level on a number of projects around the world.

Moderated by Mark Nechodom, Senior Advisor for Environmental Markets, US Department of Agriculture: Dr. Mark Nechodom is the Senior Policy Advisor for Environmental Markets to the Secretary of Agriculture at the US Department of Agriculture. His primary responsibilities are to lead USDA’s strategy for environmental market development, support emerging regional environmental markets and serve as a policy liaison to key federal agencies that shape the field of environmental market opportunities.

Dr. Nechodom previously served as Acting Director of the newly-founded Office of Environmental Markets at USDA, as Senior Climate Science Policy Advisor for the US Forest Service, as a senior research scientist with the US Forest Service, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University


of California, Davis.

Dr. Nechodom‘s early career included being an agricultural and environmental policy advisor, consultant and researcher in Mexico and other parts of Latin America. He was a visiting lecturer at the Universidad de Michoacán and published a book at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies on food and agricultural policy in rural Mexico. He earned his doctorate in political science and environmental policy from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught for several years before joining the federal government.

Breakout 2A: Pre‐Compliance Conservation Banking Panel

Abstract:

Laws such as The Endangered Species Act (ESA) and state endangered species laws are designed to protect species and their habitat facing, or likely to face, extinction. The ESA in particular has long been a lightning rod for political debate regardingdegree in Environmental Management from the Nicholas School in 2009. He then began work for the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Georgia and primarily worked on Army Compatible Use Buffering (ACUB) initiatives, specifically related to threatened and endangered species. He now works for the U.S. Army Environmental Command in San Antonio, TX focused on the ACUB Program.

Todd Gartner, World Resources Institute: Todd Gartner is a Senior Associate for the World Resources Institute’s People and Ecosystems Program. He focuses on place-based conservation incentives and market-based strategies, such as biodiversity offsets, payments for watershed services, and carbon markets, to achieve conservation objectives both domestically and abroad. Gartner has a M.F. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.S. in finance from University of Maryland’s Smith School


of Business. He is also a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow, Switzer Environmental Fellow, Environmental Leadership Program Fellow, and Property and Environmental Research Center Fellow. Gartner’s previous work included developing and running the conservation incentives program at the American Forest Foundation, fire ecology and eco-tourism research in Botswana and India, business consulting for the USDA Forest Service and several years as a corporate financial consultant.

Shauna Ginger, US Fish and Wildlife Service:

Moderated by Josh Donlan, Advanced Conservation Strategies: Josh Donlan is the Executive Director of Advanced Conservation Strategies, whose purpose is to deliver innovative, self-sustaining, and economically efficient solutions to environmental challenges by building cross-sector synergy and integrating biological, economic, technological, and socio-political threats and opportunities. He leads the organization by building interdisciplinary teams to tackle problems in novel ways.Trained as an ecologist and conservation biologist, Josh holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, an M.A. from University of California, and an undergraduate degree from Northern Arizona University. He has worked on a variety of environmental issues in over a dozen countries, including the management of invasive species, environmental restoration, ecological history, and developing financial and incentive instruments for environmental conservation. Josh has published more than 70 scientific and public articles on environmental topics, including those receiving attention in the mainstream media, such as the Financial Times, ABC Good Morning America, the BBC, and CNN with Lou Dobbs.

Josh served as the Chief Scientist for Project Isabela in Galápagos Islands, the world’s largest island restoration project. He currently serves as a key advisor to the Chilean and Argentinean governments


on the restoration of the Tierra del Fuego bioregion. Josh has been recognized internationally for his contributions and innovations. He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow and a Research Fellow at Cornell University. He has held fellowships with the Alcoa Foundation, Kinship Foundation, Switzer Foundation, Environmental Leadership Program, and the Copeland Fellowship in Global Sustainability at Amherst College. He was selected as finalist in the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development Competition sponsored by the Gates Foundation, World Bank, and Agence Française de Développement. He was highlighted in New York Times Magazine’s Big Ideas of 2005 and named to the list of “25 Saving the Planet” by Outside Magazine in 2005. Josh is a Technical Expert for the UNEP/Convention Migratory Species Secretariat, and recently co-chaired the committee forrecommendations for the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity from the UNESCO International Year of Biodiversity Science Policy Conference. He has been invited to talk about biodiversity conservation and nature to over 35 audiences in thirteen countries over the past five years, and lives outside of Park City, Utah.

In a credit trading program, a baseline is the minimum set of practices or minimum level of performance which a participant must meet before he/she may implement additional practices from which tradable environmental credits can be generated. Determining the level of a baseline for agricultural non-point sources is critical to the success of water quality trading (WQT) programs. A baseline has implications that ripple throughout the rest of the trading system, affecting the supply and price


be very restrictive, can be set quite low, or can change over time. Each approach presents its merits and challenges. This panel session will delve into these issues with subject matter experts providing their perspective and with a moderated discussion with the audience.

Panelists:

Cy Jones, World Resources Institute: Cy Jones leads the Water Quality Trading Initiative for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The goal of this initiative is to advance market-based efforts to reduce nutrient pollution impacting the Chesapeake Bay watershed and to promote the development of a framework for interstate nutrient trading.

Prior to joining WRI, Cy had a 24 year career with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in Laurel, Maryland, where he managed the regional and regulatory affairs of the water and sewer agency. He spent the intervening twoyears since retiring from WSSC as a Senior Technologist with the engineering firm of CH2M HILL, where he worked on developing nutrient trading programs in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina.

Cy has a BA in Zoology and a MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Iowa.

Susan Payne, Maryland Department of Agriculture: Susan Payne coordinates the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s overall Ecosystem Markets Program and administers the Maryland Nutrient Trading Program. In addition to working with relevant federal and state agencies and entities, she sits on a number of interagency and regional committees addressing carbon trading, interstate ecosystem markets, climate change, and greenhouse gas reductions. Susan holds both a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania, and her credentials include almost 20 years of experience in the securities


industry in New York City.

Mark Kieser, Kieser & Associates:

David Primozich, Fresh Water Trust:: David has a decade of experience helping people make decisions about management and use of natural resources. Previously, David served as Executive Director of the Willamette Partnership, and helped secure agreement on the measurement systems and infrastructure around ecosystem services. He also developed and implemented new approaches to engage private landowners in policy making that effects their land; managed production of technical strategies to guide fish and wildlife conservation investment; and, managed comprehensive planning for Parks and Open Space in Oregon. David has earned undergraduate degrees in Applied Science –Agriculture from Clark College, Anthropology at University of Oregon, and a master’s degree in Applied Anthropology at Oregon State University.

Moderated by Carl Lucero, USDA Office ofand implementation of aquatic restoration and alternative stormwater BMP projects. Based in Cardno-JFNew’s Northern Indiana office, Rod is responsible for wetland and stream assessments, management of green infrastructure projects, and Clean Water Act permit applications. Rod holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Animal Behavior from Indiana University and has completed graduate coursework in Aquatics and Conservation Biology at Indiana University.

Tracy Schohr, California Rangeland Conservation Coalition and California Cattlemen’s Association :Tracy Schohr is the Director of Rangeland Conservation for the California Cattlemen’s Association where she coordinates the California Rangeland Conservation Coalition, a partnership of ranchers, environmentalist, researchers and local, state, and federal government entities. She graduated cum laude from California State University, Chico with a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture business. Schohr lives in Gridley, CA


where she is actively engaged in her families farming and ranching operation.

Douglas Duren, WI Forestland Owner: Douglas Duren is a Wisconsin farm and woodland owner and manager. Duren is part owner and managing partner of his family farm of 400 acres in Richland County, WI, and owns and manages an additional30 acres in Sauk County. With over 25 years of background in the Green Industry, he established Lone Oak Interests, LLC in 2007, a site and land management business in which he works with landowners in both rural and urban settings to plan and implement stewardship practices on their properties.

Duren is a member of the Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association, Wisconsin Family Forests, Kickapoo Woods Cooperative, American Forest Foundation, Aldo Leopold Foundation; additionally, he is a graduate of MasterWoodland Stewards, Woodland Leadership Institute, and UW Extension Coverts. He is a Woodland Advocate Program volunteer where he introduces private landowners to the possibilities of land management and the resources available. Duren lives in Madison, WI with his wife Trisha and daughter Eleanor.

Moderated by Sarah Hines, USDA Forest Service:Hines is an Ecosystem Services Specialist with Northeastern Area State & Private Forestry and the Northern Research Station branches of the USDA Forest Service. Sarah earned an A.B. in biological anthropology from Harvard University and an MBA and MS (in environmental policy) from the University of Michigan. In her current position, she has focused on issues related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, the financial viability of private forestland ownership, and the potential for private landowners to engage in emerging


effective markets to protect source water. We’ll continue discussions from this panel on the 30th as part of the informal networking session.

Panelists:

Steven Parrett, Sand County Foundation,Director, Water As A Crop Initiative: Steven Parrett is a native Oregonian with an affinity for Aldo Leopold’s land ethic. Steven helped the Oregon Water Trust for 9 years by developing and executing dozens of effective environmental water transactions. He has been instrumental in developing innovative payment for ecosystem service programs including Bonneville Environmental Foundation’s Water Restoration Certificates, the Enhanced-CREP and VEGBACC programs of Clean Water Services and the Farms to Forests program in Southern Oregon. Steven is the director of Sand County Foundation’s new Water As A Crop(TM) initiative to enhance water quality, quantity and reliability by conserving water where it falls.

JohnGunn, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, PhD, Senior Program Leader: John has a BS in Wildlife Management from the University of Maine and an MFS from the Yale School of Forestry. He completed a PhD in Biology from the University of New Brunswick studying the landscape ecology of songbirds in managed forests. He has a broad background in sustainable forestry including extensive work on family forest and group certification issues throughout North America. John’s current work at Manomet includes developing the science and tools necessary for a forest carbon and drinking water ecosystem services marketplace.

Carrie Raber, Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District, Urban Conservationist, Minnesota: Carrie helps communities address natural resource concerns and assists with the implementation of their Source Water Protection Plans. As a member of


the Conservation Marketplace of Minnesota, she is working to bring environmental markets to the upper Midwest. Carrie obtained a B.S. in Environmental Geology and Technologies from the University of North Dakota.

Cary McElhinney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Division,WaterSense Coordinator: Cary McElhinney currently serves as the WaterSense Coordinator in the Water Division at US EPA’s Region 5 Office in Chicago, IL. For the past 5 years he has helped coordinate program implementation and information management under both Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act priorities. Previously, Cary was at US EPA Headquarters in Washington, DC where he was a project manager for Office of Water information reporting systems. Cary received his B.S. in Geology from the University of Dayton and his M.S. in Earth Sciences from North CarolinaState University.

Tracy Stanton, Program Manager, Ecosystem Marketplace – Water: Tracy leads the work on expanding coverage of issues related to payments for watershed services and other markets-based mechanisms for water-related ecosystem services for Ecosystem Marketplace and Forest Trends. Tracy was lead author of the foundational report, State of Watershed Payments: An Emerging Marketplace, published in June 2010, which served to quantify global investment in payment for watershed services. Prior to joining Forest Trends, Tracy worked as a consultant for the National Academy of Public Administration where she collaborated on an assessment of US EPA’s delivery of environmental services using the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a learning platform. She holds a Master in Public and Environmental Policy from the University of Maryland and a BA from The Ohio State


University.

Peter Stangel, Senior Vice President, U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities: Peter has responsibility for a number of programs, including the National Conservation Easement Database, the Partnership for Southern Forestland Conservation, and Healthy Watersheds Through Healthy Forests. He is helping the Endowment investigate ways to help “mainstream” water as a forest ecosystem service market by better understanding what makes projects successful and then using this information to create new successes. Peter has a B.S. in Biology from Furman University and a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia.

Breakout 3A: Ethical Issues and Concerns with Ecosystem Markets

Abstract:

For many, there is growing interest in the use of environmental markets as a tool to help meet conservation goals. However, others remain skeptical, even critical of market-based approaches for a wideFoundation:

Sally Collins, Rights and Resources Initiative Fellow, Former Director of the USDA Office of Environmental Markets and member of the American Forest Foundation Board of Trustees: Sally Collins is a Fellow for Rights and Resources Initiative, where she co-chairs Megaflorestais, an effort to bring the leaders of forest agencies from around the world together to discuss the issues facing the world’s forests. Prior to this, she served as the first director for the Office of Environmental Markets in USDA, the Associate Chief of the US Forest Service, Forest Supervisor of Deschutes National Forest, and numerous other positions with the USDA and DOI. Sally also serves on the American Forest Foundation Board of Trustees.

It is timely to take stock of the nature and objectives of private financial resources that


reward landowners for the restoration and protection of their natural resources (such as wetlands, streams and endangered species), as well as the sustainable use of more traditional resources (such as forestry and agriculture). Adam also serves as the President of Solano Partners, Inc., a consulting firm focused on environmental investment and conservation finance issues.

David Festa, Environmental Defense Fund: Festa is Vice President of west coast operations, as well as the national Land, Water and Wildlife Program at Environmental Defense Fund. In those dual capacities, David leads about 100 EDF employees—including scientists, economists and lawyers—to create transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. David joined EDF in 2003 to lead the Oceans Program. He took over as West Coast Vice President in 2007 and has led the Land,Water and Wildlife Program since 2010. David has led his teams to sustained growth—including a nearly 10-fold growth for the Oceans Program alone—by achieving significant, measurable improvements in the conservation and economic performance of businesses, and federal and state policies. A key element of his success is working in partnership with natural resource users, businesses and other environmental groups.

David’s 25+-year career includes working as a journalist for The Economist, where he covered business, technology and science, and was nominated for the Glaxo Award for Science Journalism. He has been a management consultant, analyst for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, and Deputy Director of the Center for Clean Air Policy in Washington, DC. David holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia, and a Masters in Public


Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Dan Spethmann, Working Lands, LLC: Dan is a founding member and managing partner of Working Lands Investment Partners, LLC. He has more than 30 years of experience in natural resource management. Previously Dan was Manager of Investment Programs for New Forests, Inc. where he helped to raise and place institutional and private capital into ecosystem markets. Prior to this, he participated in the Non Timber Resources Development effort at Temple-Inland, Inc. where he worked to develop stream and wetlands mitigation instruments, working forest conservation easements, and endangered species credit programs. He was Founder and President of Strategic Controls Corporation which provided supervisory control and data acquisition systems for the natural gas industry. He also served as Project Manager at Moncon, Inc.where he provided controls systems for hydroelectric facilities as well as the municipal water and wastewater industries.

Dan is completing Doctoral research at Georgetown University this year. The focus is on the ethical stewardship of natural resources developing a balance of methods to capture the range of guiding values from anthropocentric to existential, from the perspective of current and future generations. The intent is for this work to help guide environmental stewardship policy development and implementation.

He holds a Ph.D. in Forest Economics from Stephen F. Austin State University, an MS in Forestry from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and a BS in Biology from the University of Wisconsin. He is an adjunct faculty member at Stephen F. Austin State University.

David Tepper, Forest Trends: David Tepper is one of the


leading investors in the carbon markets and has been involved in carbon reduction strategies and sustainable land managment strategies since 1999.. He was responsible for the carbon finance team that managed over $1billion for Climate Change Capital from 2005 to 2007 and during that time invested over $800m in carbon reduction projects in the emerging markets.. Over the last few years he has been focused on using carbon finance to accelerate land restoration, conservation and sustainable land use around the world. He is a member of the Executive management team for Forest Trends www.forest-trends.org , a Washington DC based NGO focused on using market mechanisms and payment for ecosystem services to finance sustainable land use. David is an expert on structuring private sector finance with emerging climate changeregulatory and voluntary markets. He advices Governments, multi-laterals project developers and private investors on the design of terrestrial carbon finance opportunities. David is developing public private sector mechanisms and financial architecture in the emerging REDD markets. David is also the Managing Partner of The Earth Partners www.theearthpartners.com , a North American based land restoration developer of degraded lands and bioenergy supplier, utilizing traditional conservation finance and agricultural and forestry models with emerging bio-energy crops and payment for ecosystem services. The Earth Partners has developed a soil quantification methodology and has been testing the method and its applications on low carbon farming and land restoration projects at the landscape level on a number of projects around the world.

David has an experienced investment and corporate business background. David has successfully


built and restructured portfolio businesses. He restructured and sold a portfolio of ten operating businesses throughout Europe, North America and China as Executive Chairman of Consodata Group. He was also head of Corporate Development for a leading Italian Internet Company, Kataweb, where he negotiated and managed seven acquisitions and joint ventures and helped sell 5% of the company for €100 million. David started his career at Merrill Lynch where he spent twelve years working on corporate finance, and acquisition transactions in Europe and the US and structured over $15 billion of financial transactions.

Between 1989 and 1993, Pat was U.S. Executive Director of the World Bank. He has had stints as Chief Financial Officer at such diverse companies as a billion dollar financial services company as well as astart-up rocket development enterprise. Pat is a senior fellow at Conservation International, and serves on the Investment Committee of Conservation International’s biodiversity investment fund Verde Ventures. In 1994, Pat co-founded the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust, an accredited land trust. Pat has sought to bring private capital to land conservation for over a decade. He was a contributor to From Walden to Wall Street and has been on the faculty of the Yale Summer Camp for Conservation Finance.

His investment banking career has involved clients have ranged from major corporations to governments. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. Pat resides in Washington, DC.

Radical changes are necessary if the national stormwater program is to improve the quality of the nation’s waters, according to


year career with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in Laurel, Maryland, where he managed the regional and regulatory affairs of the water and sewer agency. He spent the intervening two years since retiring from WSSC as a Senior Technologist with the engineering firm of CH2M HILL, where he worked on developing nutrient trading programs in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina.

Cy has a BA in Zoology and a MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Iowa.

Kevin Shafer, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District: Kevin Shafer became executive director at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) in March 2002. In his current role as the executive director, he is responsible for the overall management, administration, leadership and direction for MMSD in meeting short- and long-term goals and objectives; coordinates the establishmentof strategic goals and objectives and their approval by the Commission; oversees the development of policies and operating plans; and represents MMSD to its customers, bond rating agencies, and the public.

Since becoming executive director, Shafer has worked diligently on MMSD’s $1 billion Overflow Reduction Plan. Mr. Shafer has been instrumental in providing the regional leadership in implementing green infrastructure in MMSD facilities and on private property. This leadership has resulted in a new development approach by the communities and developers in the region.

Shafer received a bachelor’s degree in science and civil engineering with a specialty in water resources from the University of Illinois in 1982, and a master’s in science and civil engineering from the University of Texas in 1988. Shafer received the 2001 Individual Merit Award for


Engineer in Government Service from the Wisconsin Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In 2007, Shafer received a National Award from Kodak American Greenways for MMSD’s pioneering Greenseams project. He is the past president of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies.

Dr. Nancy Frank: Dr. Frank teaches planning theory and courses in environmental sustainability. Dr. Frank’s areas of interest include policy issues related to water, land use, brownfield redevelopment, green infrastructure, and climate change. She also serves as editor of the newsletter of the American Planning Association – Wisconsin Chapter. She participates in a wide network of organizations related to her research interests, including the Wisconsin Brownfields Study Group (appointed), Center for Resilient Cities, the Energy Center of Wisconsin, and the Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust, Inc.(Sweet Water). In addition, Dr. Frank is part of a team of faculty and alumni who started a charter high school in 2007. She works with high school students and community organizations to explore and implement community-based sustainability initiatives, such as rain gardens, urban gardens, and aquaponic food production.

Moderated by Evan Branosky, World Resources Institute Evan Branosky is an associate for WRI’s water quality team, which advances market-based mechanisms and other policies to restore surface water quality throughout the world. A major area of work focuses on the Chesapeake Bay and Gulf of Mexico.

At WRI, Evan has authored or co-authored reports on U.S. water infrastructure, water quality trading, the U.S. Farm Bill, and climate change and U.S. agriculture. Recently, he and WRI colleagues assessed MS4, wastewater treatment, and


agriculture impacts from nutrient trading provisions of the Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act of 2009 (H.R. 3852/S. 1816). Currently, he is helping to develop trading programs and expand them to sectors beyond agriculture and wastewater. Evan is also working with a cross-WRI team to scope projects on shale gas.

Evan holds a B.S. in agricultural science and certificate in environmental geomatics from Rutgers University and an M.P.P. in environmental policy from the University of Maryland, College Park. His graduate school project focused on the water impacts from hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale of the U.S. Northeast. Evan was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti and received the FFA American Degree.

Emerging biodiversity markets and existing incentive programs have the potential to make effective contributions to conservation, butuse in the US.

Panelists:

Sara Vickerman, Defenders of Wildlife: Sara is the senior director for biodiversity partnerships for Defenders of Wildlife, and director of the Northwest office. She serves on the Oregon Sustainability Board, American Forest Foundation and Willamette Partnership Boards, and advisory committees for the Doris Duke Foundation, Oregon Institute for Natural Resources, and Oregon Solutions. She successfully promoted conservation incentives and sustainability legislation in Oregon, and bills that encourage state agencies and local governments to use markets and payments for ecosystem services. She is also involved in developing recommendations for policy changes at the federal level and is working on metrics for habitat and biodiversity.

Wayne White, Wildlands, Inc

Paul Souza, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Peter Hoar, Marstel-Day

Nicole Maness, Oregon State University

Breakout 4A: Green Economy: How Can Ecosystem Service


net benefits for society?

Panelists:

John Gunn, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences: John has a BS in Wildlife Management from the University of Maine and an MFS from the Yale School of Forestry. He completed a PhD in Biology from the University of New Brunswick studying the landscape ecology of songbirds in managed forests. He has a broad background in sustainable forestry including extensive work on family forest and group certification issues throughout North America. John’s current work at Manomet includes developing the science and tools necessary for a forest carbon and drinking water ecosystem services marketplace.

Tom Gower, University of Wisconsin: Dr. Stith T. Gower is presently a Professor of Forest Ecosystem Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tom received his B.S. in Biology from Furman University, M.S. in ForestEcology and Soil Science from North Carolina State University, and Ph.D in Forest Ecology from the University of Washington. He has spent his entire career studying carbon and nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. His interests include the effects of disturbance and climate change on terrestrial carbon budgets. In recent years his group has coupled biological and industrial ecosystem carbon models to quantify the carbon budgets of forest systems, and is in the process of developing a web-based decision support tool to quantify the effects of harvest and residue removal scenarios on forest ecosystem goods and services. In his spare time he is restoring prairies, oak savannas, and stream ecosystems on his farm in southwestern Wisconsin.

Timothy Robards, Spatial Informatics Group: Dr. Timothy Robards has worked as a forest growth


scientist, forest practices regulator, multi-disciplinary research manager and forest-climate change mitigation and adaptation researcher. Dr. Robards is a California Registered Professional Forester with the State of California and a Certified Forester ® with the Society of American Foresters. As a graduate of Purdue University, he received a BSF in Forestry with an emphasis in Forest Management and Soil Science. He received a MS and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley while studying Forest Biometrics. Dr. Robards has over 20 years’ experience developing statistical models of forest growth and mortality, having recently developed climate-sensitive tree diameter and height growth models for six Sierra Nevada conifer species. As the first Sustained Yield Forester for the State of California, Dr. Robards was the project manager for the first Sustained YieldPlan submitted under California’s new regulations in 1996. Dr. Robards served for 8 years as the Research Manager for the Demonstration State Forests, developing research infrastructure and managing a competitive grants program. He was the quantitative committee lead for the Climate Action Reserve (CAR) forestry protocol workgroup that assisted in the development of version 3 of those protocols. He has also been active in the development of forest carbon offsets under a number cap and trade programs. As part of the 2010 statewide assessment, Dr. Robards has completed an analysis of forest carbon storage and sequestration covering over 30 million acres. As a forester, Dr. Robards has also been a wildland firefighter with experience in plans and situation units, including managing structure damage assessments on large fires.

Jesse Caputo,


State University of New York Environmental Science and Forestry: Jesse Caputo is a graduate student at SUNY-ESF, studying the effects of biomass harvesting in forested systems on the provision of ecosystem services over time. Prior to beginning his current program in 2009, Jesse spent two years at the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), a Washington, D.C. think tank specializing in climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable development. As a Policy Associate in EESI’s Sustainable Biomass and Energy Program, he worked closely with a number of stakeholder organizations to help the Congress develop innovative policies incorporating forest management and bioenergy as important elements in an effective U.S. climate change strategy. Jesse holds a B.S. in Natural Resources Management from the University of Connecticut and a M.S. in ForestResources from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Moderated by Brian Kittler, Pinchot Institute for Conservation:Brian’s work at the Institute is primarily focused on forest bioenergy, ecosystem services, federal land management issues, and community-based natural resource management. Brian’s work on bioenergy has examined the extent to which various approaches to wood-biomass utilization can support renewable energy development, sustainable natural resource-based communities, and the improved management and conservation of forest resources. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Policy from Colby College and a Master of Science in Environmental Management from the Johns Hopkins University.

Breakout 4C: Mitigation And Commercial Timberland

Abstract:

There is a significant overlap between ecosystem services and the commercial timberland asset class but there have been relatively few transactions. The panel will present a range of viewpoints about private


a renewable energy company in the Western U.S. focused on biomass generation. The biomass feedstock was mainly removed from federal lands, which resulted in a fire hazard reduction treatment or other ecological benefits. For over 15 years, Russell worked with a Fortune 100 forest products company and is well-versed on timber markets, timberland management, and forest economics.

Russell is a graduate forester and a member of the Society of American Foresters, the national organization representing the forestry profession in the United States. Additionally, Russell has served as a member of the State Implementation Committee for Sustainable Forest Initiative in Louisiana and on the Louisiana Forestry Association board of directors.

Other areas in which Russell possesses analytical and management skills are forest resource analysis, forest sustainability, harvest and production of woodJames is a certified burn boss in Maryland and Virginia, a member of the International Association for Wildland Fire, the Nature Conservancy, and the Forest Resources Association.

David Primozich, The Freshwater Trust:David has a decade of experience helping people make decisions about management and use of natural resources. Previously, David served as Executive Director of the Willamette Partnership, and helped secure agreement on the measurement systems and infrastructure around ecosystem services. He also developed and implemented new approaches to engage private landowners in policy making that effects their land; managed production of technical strategies to guide fish and wildlife conservation investment; and, managed comprehensive planning for Parks and Open Space in Oregon. David has earned undergraduate degrees in Applied Science –Agriculture from Clark College, Anthropology at University of Oregon,


and a master’s degree in Applied Anthropology at Oregon State University.

David R. Smith, The Other Firm, LLC:David is primarily responsible for client relationships, management and growth of conservation and environment-focused efforts for The Other Firm, a leading online solution development service provider. Previously, David was an executive in the customer care industry and owned and operated an environmental consulting firm in Oregon. The Other Firm specializes in the design, development and management of results-driven, user-centric web resources and has produced several well-regarded applications including The Conservation Registry, LandServer, The Bay Bank and the Ecosystem Crediting Platform. David holds a B.S. in Wildlife Management from University of Wisconsin and an M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from Mississippi State.

Magdalena Pampillo, Market Environmental Registry: Magdalena Pampillo is the Assistant Vice President ofthe Markit Environmental Registry team where she plays a key operational role in supporting the implementation of new water and biodiversity standards into the Markit Registry. Markit’s global environmental business is dedicated to supporting new environmental markets with quality financial markets-based infrastructure designed specifically to deliver maximum flexibility, transparency and efficiency for these markets.

Magdalena is a qualified Environmental Engineer with experience in the oil, gas and steel industries having worked with Argentina’s main industrial conglomerate the Techint Group. Magdalena has also worked at Evolution Markets and now in her role at Markit she works closely with project developers, regulators and corporate in carbon, water and biodiversity markets. Magdalena is fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Moderated by Bobby Cochran, Willamette Partnership:Bobby Cochran is the Executive Director for the Willamette


a forest property and carbon project to determine eligibility, costs, and potential benefits under the current carbon standards and protocols (Climate Action Reserve, American Carbon Registry, and Voluntary Carbon Standard). Summary pro forma analytics are provided for multiple scenarios to allow the user to evaluate options within and across carbon registries. The tool resides in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet but will eventually be migrated to a web-based interactive platform.

Presenter:

David Saah, Spatial Informatics Group, LLC

John Gunn, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences: John has a BS in Wildlife Management from the University of Maine and an MFS from the Yale School of Forestry. He completed a PhD in Biology from the University of New Brunswick studying the landscape ecology of songbirds in managed forests. He has a broad background insustainable forestry including extensive work on family forest and group certification issues throughout North America. John’s current work at Manomet includes developing the science and tools necessary for a forest carbon and drinking water ecosystem services marketplace.

Tim Robards, Spatial Informatics Group, LLC: Dr. Timothy Robards has worked as a forest growth scientist, forest practices regulator, multi-disciplinary research manager and forest-climate change mitigation and adaptation researcher. Dr. Robards is a California Registered Professional Forester with the State of California and a Certified Forester ® with the Society of American Foresters. As a graduate of Purdue University, he received a BSF in Forestry with an emphasis in Forest Management and Soil Science. He received a MS and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley while studying Forest Biometrics. Dr. Robards


of Wisconsin and an M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from Mississippi State.

Bobby Cochran, Willamette Partnership: Bobby Cochran is the Executive Director for the Willamette Partnership, a nonprofit coalition of business, environmental, and other leaders working to enhance the pace, scope, and effectiveness of restoration in the Northwest. It specializes in the design and operation of emerging markets for ecosystem services. Bobby has worked on market-based policies for environmental organizations, a water utility, and international efforts. He received a Ph.D./M.A. in Urban Studies/Conflict Resolution from Portland State University, and his Masters in Public Policy from the University of Southern California.

NutrientNet: a tool for water quality trading

Abstract:

NutrientNet has been developed as the water quality trading tool for states in the Chesapeake Bay, including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland. The tool includesmultistate context within the Chesapeake Bay.

Presenter:

Susan Payne, Maryland Department of Agriculture: Susan Payne coordinates the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s overall Ecosystem Markets Program and administers the Maryland Nutrient Trading Program. In addition to working with relevant federal and state agencies and entities, she sits on a number of interagency and regional committees addressing carbon trading, interstate ecosystem markets, climate change, and greenhouse gas reductions. Susan holds both a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania, and her credentials include almost 20 years of experience in the securities industry in New York City.

Ali Saleh, Tarleton State University

Michelle Perez, World Resources Institute

BayBank

Abstract:

The Bay Bank (www.thebaybank.org) is an online resource that allows buyerst o view ecosystem credits and/or expressions of interest in generatingcredits that have been posted by landowners and


Ty is primarily responsible for business operations, client relationships and project oversight for The Other Firm, a leading online solution development service provider. Previously, Ty was a marketing executive in the advertising and financial services industries. The Other Firm specializes in the design, development and management of results-driven, user-centric web resources and has produced several well-regarded applications for the conservation and environmental sector including The Conservation Registry, LandServer, The Bay Bank and the Ecosystem Crediting Platform. Clients include Defenders of Wildlife, DJ Case & Associates, The Nature Conservancy, The Pinchot Institute, The Willamette Partnership and USDA.

Markit Registry

Abstract:

The Markit Environmental Registry (www.markit.com) delivers world-leading financial markets-based registry infrastructure to promote transparency, efficiency and confidence in environmental markets. The registry lists carbon, water and biodiversity assets for regulatory and voluntaryAgency, where he worked on agriculture-related water quality issues. Mr. Kaiser worked with an EPA team that led the effort to revise the scientific assessment and management direction of the 2001 Hypoxia Action Plan in support of the state and federal Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force. For the past two years, Mr. Kaiser worked with the agribusiness sector on a voluntary stewardship program to improve food and beverage processing efficiency as well as the sustainability of the agricultural supply chain. Before joining the EPA, Mr. Kaiser worked at an agricultural land trust and as a consultant to the U.S. Forest Service. Mr. Kaiser received a Masters in Environmental Management with a concentration in natural resource economics and policy from Duke University in 2003.

The Role of Corporations in


of experience in natural resource consulting. Rod’s core areas of knowledge includes stream diagnostic and design work, wetland impact assessment, as well as design and implementation of aquatic restoration and alternative stormwater BMP projects. Based in Cardno-JFNew’s Northern Indiana office, Rod is responsible for wetland and stream assessments, management of green infrastructure projects, and Clean Water Act permit applications. Rod holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Animal Behavior from Indiana University and has completed graduate coursework in Aquatics and Conservation Biology at Indiana University.

Sabina Shaikh, RCF Economic & Financial Consulting: Dr. Sabina Shaikh is a Senior Research Economist at RCF Economic and Financial Consulting and a Lecturer and Director of the Environment, Agriculture and Food Group at the University of Chicago. Dr. Shaikh specializes in non-marketvaluation for environment and natural resources and the development of market-based mechanisms for ecosystem service provision. She recently published an article on the ecosystem services of Illinois wetlands and co-authored a chapter forthcoming in Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services by Oxford Press. Dr. Shaikh has a BA in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Davis.

World Café Other

Klamath River Water Quality Tracking And Accounting Program (TAP)

Abstract:

The Klamath Basin Water Quality Improvement Tracking and Accounting Program (Klamath TAP) is a framework to provide basin stakeholders with an efficient means to increase the pace and reduce the cost of improving Klamath River water quality to support all water-related uses in the Basin. Public


goal of water quality improvements.

Presenter:

Mike Deas, Watercourse Engineering IncKatie Riley, Environmental Incentives, LLC: Katie Riley is the EI project manager for the Klamath Water Quality Tracking & Accounting Program, which will establish a consist set of credits to target investments in reducing temperature and nutrients in the Klamath River and tributaries. She is also providing guidance to the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Nevada Conservancy and Sustainable Conservation to develop an environmental accounting program for the Mokelumne Watershed, which serves as the drinking water supply for the San Francisco Bay Area. The Mokelumne program will support market-based investments in conservation practices that improve water availability, water quality, habitat viability, and carbon sequestration.

Katie holds a MS in Environmental Science and Management from the Bren School at UC – Santa Barbara,and sellers, and assists with coordinating committee meetings and efforts to bring environmental markets to Minnesota and the upper Midwest. Brooke obtained a B.S. in Forestry from Iowa State University.

Susan Carlin, Minnesota River Board: Susan Carlin is the Program Director for the Minnesota River Board. She coordinates participation among the many partners in Conservation Marketplace of Minnesota. She also participates in and helps lead meetings for the Minnesota River Basin Technical and Policy Committees and the CMM National Advisory Committee. Susan received a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Florida.

Pacific Northwest Overview: Scaling Up On A 2-Year Horizon

Abstract:

The Pacific Northwest has been a hotbed of conversation over the last year, with brewing water quality trades, conservations across Washington and Oregon, and some hard thinking about what


market development and expansion, and discuss some of the new efforts underway to build an effective credit based market system for water quality reductions and offsets .

Presenters:

Daniel Kaiser, the Director of Field and Industry Operations, Water Stewardship, Inc.: Daniel Kaiser leads the coordination of WSI field work as it pertains to farm conservation assessment and ecosystem credit trading projects. Mr. Kaiser joins Water Stewardship Inc. from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he worked on agriculture-related water quality issues. Mr. Kaiser worked with an EPA team that led the effort to revise the scientific assessment and management direction of the 2001 Hypoxia Action Plan in support of the state and federal Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force. For the past two years, Mr. Kaiser worked with the agribusinesssector on a voluntary stewardship program to improve food and beverage processing efficiency as well as the sustainability of the agricultural supply chain. Before joining the EPA, Mr. Kaiser worked at an agricultural land trust and as a consultant to the U.S. Forest Service. Mr. Kaiser received a Masters in Environmental Management with a concentration in natural resource economics and policy from Duke University in 2003.

Amelia Letnes, Environmental Protection Agency: Amelia Letnes has worked in the Water Permits Divison of EPA Headquarters since 2005, and has been the national permitting lead in water quality trading since 2008. In her work at EPA, she has worked on a wide variety of issues related to NPDES permitting, including state oversight and performance, climate change, economic analysis, and integrated permitting. Recently,


she has been involved in creating trading and offsets policy in the Chesapeake Bay, as part of their Bay-wide TMDL. She received her BA in international studies, with a focus on global economics from Muhlenberg College and received her MA in Political Science from Lehigh University.

Susan Payne, Maryland Department of Agriculture: Susan Payne coordinates the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s overall Ecosystem Markets Program and administers the Maryland Nutrient Trading Program. In addition to working with relevant federal and state agencies and entities, she sits on a number of interagency and regional committees addressing carbon trading, interstate ecosystem markets, climate change, and greenhouse gas reductions. Susan holds both a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania, and her credentials include almost 20 years of experience in the securitiesindustry in New York City.

Kevin DeBell, Environmental Protection Agency: Kevin DeBell is an environmental protection specialist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office in Annapolis, Maryland. In this capacity, he provides policy analysis to program leadership, leads the program’s budget formulation, participates in major reporting and accountability projects, and covers growth, development, and transportation issues. Kevin currently is part of the program’s nutrient credit trading team and is leading an evaluation of the costs associated with the Chesapeake Bay TMDL. Kevin joined EPA in 2001 and has served in the agency’s Office of Policy, Economics, and Evaluation and Office of Wastewater Management. He previously worked as Manager of Policy Development for the Water Environment Federation. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from Loyola University


Chicago and a Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution and Analysis from George Mason University, and is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Baltimore’s Center for Negotiation and Conflict Management.

Moderated by Al Todd, USDA: Al currently serves as the Chesapeake Bay Team Leader for the USDA Office of Environmental Markets. Prior to 2011, Al served for 2 ½ years as Assistant Director for Ecosystem Services and Markets for the Forest Service and 18 years as Northeastern Area Watershed Program Leader where he also managed forestry support to the Chesapeake Bay Program. Al received a BS from Penn State University in Environmental Resources and MS from the University of Arizona in Hydrology. Al has worked for local government, the private sector, and 32 years with USDA and the Forestwork in this ecosystem. The challenges will be to develop widely supported and spatially explicit conservation strategies, to use consistent metrics to measure success, and to align government programs and private investment to expedite transactions and produce tangible ecological results in a reasonable time frame.

Presenter:

Sara Vickerman, Defenders of Wildlife: Sara is the senior director for biodiversity partnerships for Defenders of Wildlife, and director of the Northwest office. She serves on the Oregon Sustainability Board, American Forest Foundation and Willamette Partnership Boards, and advisory committees for the Doris Duke Foundation, Oregon Institute for Natural Resources, and Oregon Solutions. She successfully promoted conservation incentives and sustainability legislation in Oregon, and bills that encourage state agencies and local governments to use markets and payments for ecosystem services. She is also involved


The panel will be comprised of the following people:

Presenter:

Tracy Stanton, Forest Trends/Ecosystem Marketplace: Tracy Stanton, Ecosystems Marketplace: Stanton leads the work on expanding coverage of issues related to payments for watershed services and other markets-based mechanisms for water-related ecosystem services for Ecosystem Marketplace and Forest Trends. Tracy was lead author of the foundational report, State of Watershed Payments: An Emerging Marketplace, published in June 2010, which served to quantify global investment in payment for watershed services. Prior to joining Forest Trends, Tracy worked as a consultant for the National Academy of Public Administration where she collaborated on an assessment of US EPA’s delivery of environmental services using the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a learning platform. She holds a Master in Public and Environmental Policy from the University ofMaryland and a BA from The Ohio State University.

Bill Whitney, Washoe County Nevada Planning Department

Jason Franklin, Parametrix

Dale Lyons, City of Santa Fe

The Value of Clean Water: Optimizing Green and Grey Infrastructure in Forested Watersheds

Abstract:

The management of natural, forested watersheds can improve the quality of drinking water and significantly reduce the cost of water filtration plant upgrades and maintenance. Along with improvements to safe drinking water, upland watershed management provides multiple ancillary benefits such as improved ecological resilience and function, as well as opportunities for recreation, biodiversity conservation, increased water yield, and carbon sequestration. These upland conservation and restoration projects can also offer a unique collaboration opportunity for the conservation community to work with drinking water suppliers, the business community, and private landowners. However, unique challenges- such as unmonitored


Policy. Erin also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Economics and Environmental Analysis and Policy from Boston University. Her previous work experience includes research and economic analysis of ecosystem service markets for the land conservation community in North Carolina and several years as a climate change and sustainability consultant with ICF International. In 2008, she received the National Fish and Wildlife Budweiser Conservation Scholarship for her Master’s project research on the potential of ecosystem service markets for the conservation of private lands.

Emily Alcott, Inter-Fluve, Inc.

Establishing Supply-And-Demand Dynamics For Ecoservices On A Watershed

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Ecoservice marketers have focused on the logistics of transactions rather than the entire market structure such as supply-and-demand components and price discovery. Granted, these less tangible macroeconomic components may seem out of reach to today’sthe model that the Fund would not be a passive investor. Rather, when the Fund makes investments in a company, it also takes control of majority ownership, the Board of Directors and key executive management positions to ensure proper business leadership and commercial success. In the case of the JPF Fund and its investment in Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation, the application of this model has led to the company obtaining an executed term sheet and Preliminary Power Purchase Agreement, the projected revenues for which would exceed one billion dollars.

While achieving commercial success, the company has remained true to its ethical sustainable origins, including the core principle that being a responsible global citizen compels OTE Corporation to measure their corporate success not only by financial returns, but also by


the humanitarian and environmental benefits the business brings as well.

Presenter:

Jim Greenberg, Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation: James D. Greenberg is a Non-Executive Director and Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer for Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation which has offices in Hawaii and Pennsylvania. Jim is an experienced civil trial lawyer and a skilled business executive. He has practiced law since 1986 and has tried to verdict more than 100 cases, including several groundbreaking victories in major litigation. Jim has achieved the prestigious “A-Rating” among his professional peers and judges reflecting his reputation as a stellar lawyer with the highest ethical standards. From 2000 – 2009 he was Managing Partner of the Law Firm of Katherman, Briggs and Greenberg. Jim was responsible for the business development and a doubling of the sizeof the practice establishing offices in York, Lancaster and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. As an experienced businessman, Jim has acquired broad based knowledge covering a wide range of commercial and business issues. He has consistently brought this business acumen to bear in philanthropy, the Arts and environmental stewardship. Jim is devoted to humanitarian causes, serving on many non-profit Boards, including the Susquehanna Waldorf School and the Children’s Home of York. He is also an ardent supporter of the creative arts, particularly film-making, where he has produced/co-produced short, documentary and feature length films, including No God, No Master, starring Oscar Nominee David Strathairn.

Passionate about the many environmental problems that are affecting our world and the human race, especially in regions such as Africa, Jim is committed to helping provide solutions to


these mounting global concerns. He is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Million Dollar Advocates Forum; the York County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations as well as a former Member of The Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.

Rangelands make up about 35% of the land surface in the United States with grazing occurring on 395 million acres of private rangelands and 250 million acres of federally managed allotments. Active management on these lands can improve important ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, hydrologic function and biodiversity – ideal targets for ecosystem service management and markets. Unfortunately, most of the current work on ecosystem service market development has focused on forest management and neglected rangelands. Ecotrust has worked with the Bureau of Land Management, OregonHalsey will moderate the session in a discussion format with encouragement of considerable audience participation in the conversation.

Presenter:

Mark Nechodom, Senior Advisor for Environmental Markets, US Department of Agriculture: Dr. Mark Nechodom is the Senior Policy Advisor for Environmental Markets to the Secretary of Agriculture at the US Department of Agriculture. His primary responsibilities are to lead USDA’s strategy for environmental market development, support emerging regional environmental markets and serve as a policy liaison to key federal agencies that shape the field of environmental market opportunities.

Dr. Nechodom previously served as Acting Director of the newly-founded Office of Environmental Markets at USDA, as Senior Climate Science Policy Advisor for the US Forest Service, as a senior research scientist with the US Forest Service, and was a Visiting Scholar at the


University of California, Davis.

Dr. Nechodom‘s early career included being an agricultural and environmental policy advisor, consultant and researcher in Mexico and other parts of Latin America. He was a visiting lecturer at the Universidad de Michoacán and published a book at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies on food and agricultural policy in rural Mexico. He earned his doctorate in political science and environmental policy from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught for several years before joining the federal government.

Adam Davis, Solano Partners, Ecosystem Investment Partners

Craig Duxbury, Disney

Water Rights’ Role in Ecosystem Service Markets of the West

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In the West no water right means no water. Ecosystem services are no exception when it comes to the importance of water rights. Securing water rights is aSky Brewing Company, led him to pursue an entrepreneurial vision for Lotic. As founder of Lotic, Chris has provided consultation on water banks, water rights asset management, water marketing plans, water capital improvements, water rights audits, water rights valuations, mitigation plans, and water rights brokerage. As a result of his early success in the emerging water market, Chris frequently presents on the topics of water markets and water marketing. When Chris is not working with water, he can be found wading in water with a fly rod in his hand and a golden retriever at his side.

A Landowner’s Perspective: Surveys on Ecosystem Service Payments in California and North Carolina

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Private lands comprise about sixty percent of the United States and the majority of these lands provide a number of


Conservation Economics Associate, Defenders of Wildlife: Molly Cheatum focuses on innovative payment programs and market-based approaches to pay private landowners for implementing conservation practices on their lands. Specifically, her work involves researching the potential application of ecosystem service markets in North Carolina and water quality/quantity markets in California. She also focuses on estimating the economic values associated with biodiversity and habitat conservation. She received a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Mary Washington, and a dual master’s degree in conservation of natural resources and sustainable development from American University and University for Peace in Costa Rica.

Ben Parkhurst, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University: Ben Parkhurst is working this summer with the Climate Action Reserve (CAR) developing protocols for forest offset projects in the USdevelopment service provider. Previously, Ty was a marketing executive in the advertising and financial services industries. The Other Firm specializes in the design, development and management of results-driven, user-centric web resources and has produced several well-regarded applications for the conservation and environmental sector including The Conservation Registry, LandServer, The Bay Bank and the Ecosystem Crediting Platform. Clients include Defenders of Wildlife, DJ Case & Associates, The Nature Conservancy, The Pinchot Institute, The Willamette Partnership and USDA.

Partnering With the Military Services to Protect Water, Ecosystems, and Military Training

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Partnering with the military services (Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force) to protect land on a regional scale provides an excellent opportunity for state and local agencies and private conservation organizations to protect natural habitat and to preserve ecosystem services. The


Department of Defense owns or controls an estimated 29,000,000 acres of land in the United States. Much of this land is concentrated in large installations located in rapidly-urbanizing areas, where it represents the “habitat of last resort” for many threatened and endangered species. Large segments of these installations and training ranges are maintained in their natural state to serve as training and buffer areas, providing ecosystem-scale biodiversity, water sources, air cleansing, and carbon sequestration. Identifying, improving, and leveraging the ecosystem services values of military lands can provide mutual benefits for public agencies, private conservation organizations, and the military.

Partnering on ecosystem services projects is a logical progression of DoD’s working relationship with natural resources and conservation organizations. Under the Sikes Act, the military services develop integrated natural resources managementspecific priorities for overcoming these challenges.

Presenter:

Doug MacNair, Ph.D., Practice Leader – Natural Resource Economics, Cardno ENTRIX: Doug MacNair, Ph.D. is the Practice Leader for Natural Resource Economics for Cardno ENTRIX. The practice helps clients value ecosystem and natural resource services in their decision making using multi-criteria decision analysis and other quantitative tools. The types of projects include watershed protection, land-use planning, water resources and environmental liability management. He has also led major natural resource assessment projects that quantify the intangible value of human use of the environment, including fishing, hunting, outdoor recreation, aesthetics and open space. Prior to his career in environmental economics, he was the Associate Director of Economic Research for NASDAQ, the over-the-counter stock market.

Closing Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here?

Featuring speakers from Disney, Pepsi,


Dow, Plum Creek, and the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association / Partners for Western Conservation sharing their thoughts and reflections on the conference and discussing what needs to happen to move market-based approaches into the mainstream.

Tim Carey, Pepsi

John DiMuro, Dow

Craig Duxbury, Disney

Rob Olszewski, Plum Creek

T. Wright Dickinson, 1st Vice President, Colorado Cattlemen’s Association; Board Member, Partners for Western Conservation: T. Wright Dickinson is a partner in his family ranch, Vermillion Ranch Ltd, located 90 miles north-west of Craig, Colo. The family’s ranch was established in 1885 and has been run and operated by the family since its inception.

T. Wright has been a member of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) for over 40 years and has been very active within the association. In addition to his work on the ranch, T.Wright has served two terms as the Moffat County Commissioner, served on the board for Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund, Chairman of Club 20’s Public Lands Committee, as Director of the Colorado Public Lands Council, along with other posts and positions throughout the state and nation.

T. Wright currently serves as the 1st Vice President of CCA and is a founding board member for Partners for Western Conservation (PWC). PWC was founded to implement market-based conservation and ecosystems services to benefit wildlife, the environment, landowners, and the regulated community.

Carl Palmer, Beartooth Capital Partners: Carl is the co-founder and Principal of Beartooth Capital, a pioneering investment management firm whose mission is to generate strong investment returns along with real conservation results and community benefits. Beartooth has more than $65M under


(CNN) -- This statement from Heath Ledger's father, Kim Ledger, on behalf of the Ledger family was issued following the release of the New York City medical examiner's findings:

We remain humble as parents and a family, among millions of people worldwide who may have suffered the tragic loss of a child. Few can understand the hollow, wrenching, and enduring agony parents silently suffer when a child predeceases them. Today's results put an end to speculation, but our son's beautiful spirit and enduring memory will forever remain in our hearts.

While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath's accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage.

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Eminem made the trip overseas to take part in the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards in Amsterdam this evening and performed his MMLP2 singles “Berzerk” and “Rap God.” In addition to rocking the stage in Duck Hunter camo Air Max 90s, Slim Shady took home the Best Hip Hop award and Global Icon award at the show.

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