Spotted owls get a hand from Obama, but is it enough?
The Obama administration has pushed aside a weak Bush-era protection plan. But the owl is in precarious condition.
Crosscut
September 20, 2010
By Daniel Jack Chasan
Is the Obama administration taking a step forward, merely sideways, or — as some environmentalists hope — back to the future on the Northern Spotted Owl? On Sept. 8, the administration issued a brand new draft recovery plan for the owl. Read more…
New spotted owl plan unveiled
The draft, replacing a halted Bush administration recovery effort, invites the help of private landowners
BY SUSAN PALMER
The Register-Guard
Appeared in print: Friday, Sep 10, 2010
Federal officials have unveiled another recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, one that invites private landowners to help protect the bird and uses new mapping and modeling to identify the best habitat for the owl. Read more…
Managing the West’s forests
For fun and profit
Forest jobs are disappearing, too. Perhaps strategic alliances with tree-huggers can help
The Economist
Aug 26th 2010
AMERICA’S most sparsely populated states were among its more resilient during the recession. Before the downturn, places like Montana and North Dakota poked along with slow growth and greying populations. When the wheels came off the national economy, they began to move up the rankings. They were doing well from commodities, had never known housing bubbles and were not especially vulnerable to the financial sector’s troubles. In 2008 Montana’s growth rate was the highest in the country. Read more…
‘Multiple threats’ for Northern spotted owl
After more than a decade of government protection, the northern spotted owl continues on a downward trajectory, raising the specter of the dark-brown, winged species being listed as endangered. Read more…
Congressional Testimony
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Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Scientific publications authored or edited by Geos Institute staff.
Amphibians and Reptiles
Scientific publications authored or edited by Geos Institute staff.
- Terrestrial habitats (2005, In: Amphibians of the Pacific northwest, Seattle Audubon Society, Seattle, WA)
- Siskiyou Mountains salamander: Plethodon stormi Highton and Brame (2005, In: Amphibians of the Pacific northwest, Seattle Audubon Society, Seattle WA)
- Scott Bar salamander: Plethodon asupak Mead (2005, In: Amphibians of the Pacific northwest, Seattle Audubon Society, Seattle WA)
- Surveys for terrestrial amphibians in Shasta County, California, with notes on the distribution of Shasta salamanders (Hydromantes shastae)(2004; Northwest Naturalist 85: 35-38)
Northern Spotted Owl
Scientific publications authored or edited by Geos Institute staff.
Northwest Forest Plan
Scientific publications authored or edited by Geos Institute staff.
National forests: More than the sum of their precious parts
Published: July 23, 2010 in the Oregonian
By Randi Spivak and Tom Power
It’s time for a 21st century dialogue about Oregon’s federal forests that recognizes they are greater than the sum of their parts. Debates over logging vs. spotted owls are narrow, polarizing and obsolete. Read more…
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Robert Macnee, Ph.D. is Deputy Director of Resilience Services at Climate Resilience Consulting, where he helps governments, institutions, and communities reduce climate risk in equitable and practical ways. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Management focused on climate change impacts on health and communities, and brings over a decade of experience spanning economic development, resilience planning, and implementation.
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Jim is a multilingual world traveler. Based in Bavaria during the 1970s, Jim spent most of this period in India, Afghanistan and Nepal, where he founded and operated a charitable medical clinic serving Tibetan Refugees. He settled in Oregon in 1983 on a forested ranch in the Umpqua National Forest.
Dr. Micah Hahn is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health in the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. She received her joint PhD in Epidemiology / Environment and Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MPH in Global Environmental Health from Emory University. Subsequently, she was a postdoctoral fellow for the CDC Climate and Health Program, and in this position worked collaboratively with the CDC Division of Vector-borne Diseases and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Her research focuses on understanding the health impacts of climate change and working with communities to develop locally-relevant adaptation and resilience-building strategies. Dr. Hahn is also on the Management Team of the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center.
Michael is a former Founding Principal of Resilient Cities Catalyst, a global non-profit helping cities and their partners tackle their toughest challenges. He is currently the Executive Director of Climate Resilience Academy at the University of Miami.
Dr. Quintus Jett is a consultant, educator, and strategist for public causes. He has a doctorate in Organizations & Management from Stanford University, and a two-decade faculty career which spans schools, departments, and programs of business, engineering, liberal studies, divinity, and public and nonprofit management. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Dr. Jett launched a volunteer project in New Orleans, which enlisted residents, students from over a dozen colleges and universities, and hundreds of others to field map the city’s Gentilly district, Lower Ninth Ward, and New Orleans East. Dr. Jett is an innovator in higher education, bridging the divide between academic research and the other priorities of the modern university, including student access and diversity, community engagement, and providing foundations for life-long learning in today’s rapidly changing world.
Scott is Monfort Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. He has written about 100 publications in the peer-reviewed climate literature, is a former editor of the Journal of Climate, and served for five years as founding Science Chair of the North American Carbon Program.
Linda has many years of experience in disaster preparedness and resilience. She has been an elected official on the Linn County Iowa Board of Supervisors, Chair of the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the East Central Iowa Council of Governments, the statewide Mental Health Developmental Disability and the Linn County Board of Health. Langston is a former president of the National Association of Counties (2013-2014).
Ken works with families and organizations as a mediator, organizational consultant, trainer and facilitator. Along with his passion for helping people prepare for and reduce climate change, Ken also volunteers as a mediator through Mediation Works and is passionate about supporting youth through mentoring with Boys to Men of Southern Oregon.
Matthew is a retired high school teacher who was once honored as Oregon High School Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Before his teaching career he was in the restaurant business in Portland. He is also a lawyer who has been a member of the Oregon State Bar Association since 1980.
Andrea is the Resilience Policy Advisor for the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency. She works across state agencies and with local governments to increase the state’s resilience to the impacts of climate change.