Master of Ceremonies: Krystyna Wolniakowski, Director, Pacific Northwest Region, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
 

JANUARY 26, 2005

8:00–9:00 A.M.

REGISTRATION CHECK-IN (UNTIL 5:00 P.M.)

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00–10:30 A.M.

OPENING GENERAL SESSION

Welcome Remarks

• Herman Dillion, Sr., Chair, Puyallup Tribe of Indians (invited)
• Bill Baarsma, Mayor, City of Tacoma
• John Ladenburg, Executive, Pierce County

Keynote Address: Creating a Future for People and Salmon

• Bill Ruckelshaus, Chair, Salmon Recovery Funding Board; Shared Strategy Development Committee

Creating a Future for People and Salmon: Multi-Media Presentation #1

Thoughts come alive in the first of five brief multi-media presentations.

10:30–10:45 A.M.

BEVERAGE BREAK

10:45 A.M.–12:30 P.M.

GENERAL SESSION: A FIRST LOOK AT RECOVERY ACROSS THE SOUND

• Jim Kramer, Executive Director, Shared Strategy for Puget Sound

Panel

• Councilmember Jim Compton, City of Seattle; Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish watershed
• Commissioner Jayni Kamen, Mason County; South Sound Salmon Recovery Group
• Bob Kelly, Natural Resources Director, Nooksack Tribe; Nooksack watershed
• Councilmember Mark Sollitto, City of North Bend; Snohomish Basin Salmon Recovery Forum
• Jay Watson, Executive Director, Hood Canal Coordinating Council

Hear highlights of expected results from all the watershed efforts and plans around Puget Sound. What can we hope to accomplish in the next 10 years? Jim Kramer will provide an overview followed by a panel discussion of a representative group of local watershed leaders who will talk about what they are most proud of in their recovery chapters, how they balanced local needs and interests, the challenges they face, and what questions or issues they hope will be furthered in the next two days of the Summit.

12:30–1:30 P.M.

LUNCH

Salmon and Cycles of Time: Multi-Media Presentation #2

1:45–5:00 P.M.

BREAKOUTS

These concurrent sessions are structured to be dynamic and interactive sessions in which participants will have the opportunity to refine and confirm key elements of the regional recovery plan. All breakout sessions begin with a presentation to provide up-to-date information on the topic and lay the groundwork for participants to provide input, share knowledge and advance the issues and questions raised in the sessions. “Issue experts” (elected officials and other leaders) have been invited to informally share their perspective or experience as it relates to the topic and to stimulate and participate in group discussions. Professional facilitators will manage each session, scheduling beverage breaks at the appropriate time.

W1 FINANCING SALMON RECOVERY—WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

Facilitator

• Craig Fleck, Demeter Matrix Alliance

Presenter

• Dennis Canty, Evergreen Funding Consultants

Issue Experts

• Councilmember Jim Compton, City of Seattle
• Maggie Coon, The Nature Conservancy
• Representative Hans Dunshee, Washington State House of Representatives*
• Rich Innes, Conservation Strategies, LLC
• Representative Fred Jarrett, Washington State House of Representatives*
• Steve Lewis, ESA Business Coalition
• Rob Masonis, American Rivers
• Chuck Mosher, Tri-County Salmon Coalition
• George Pess, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
• David Troutt, Nisqually Tribe

This session will describe the estimated 10-year costs of implementing the watershed chapters, and potential sources and fundraising strategies at three funding levels matched to on-the-ground results. Participants will have a chance to weigh in on what they would support in a financing strategy and how to ensure that the most important work is accomplished in all the watersheds at the different funding levels.

W2 FEDERAL ASSURANCES UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Facilitator

• Stephanie Ryan, Demeter Matrix Alliance

Presenters

• Ken Berg, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• Bob Lohn, NOAA Fisheries

Issue Experts

• Sam Anderson, Master Builders Association
• Bob Kelly, Nooksack Tribe
• Jay Manning, Brown, Reavis & Manning PLLC (Currently the Director of the Dept. of Ecology)
• Mayor Steve Mullet, City of Tukwila

Hear from federal agencies about what a regional recovery plan needs (including level of commitments) in order to lead to federal assurances and what types of assurances are available. You will have a chance to provide input on which assurances are important to you and fit with the local need for implementing a recovery plan.

W3 WHAT IS THE ROLE OF HATCHERIES IN SALMON RECOVERY AND IN MAINTAINING VIABLE AND FISHABLE SALMON POPULATIONS?

Facilitator

• Bill Ross, Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, Ltd.

Presenter

• Jim Scott, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife

Issue Experts

• Ken Currens, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
• David Herrera, Skokomish Tribe (invited)
• Rob Jones, National Marine Fisheries Service
• Lars Mobrand, Ph.D., Mobrand Biometrics, Inc.

If hatcheries were successful, how would we know it? This session will describe the state and tribal Co-manager’s Integrated Hatchery Program, the Hatchery Genetic Management Program and the Hatchery Scientific Review Group recommendations. The session will look at how these new hatchery management practices can support both harvest and recovery over the next 10 years. Participant discussions will focus on concerns and potential solutions to ensure tribal treaty rights are met and make hatcheries a viable part of recovery.

W4 PROTECTING THE HABITAT WE HAVE AND THE HABITAT WE RESTORE

Facilitator

• Lunell Haught, Haught Strategies

Presenter

• Dave Somers, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

Issue Experts

• Councilmember Dow Constantine, King County
• Gene Duvernoy, Cascade Land Conservancy
• Bob Johns, Johns Monroe Mitsunaga PLLC
• Connie Kelleher, American Rivers
• Randy Kinley, Lummi Nation
• Andy McMillan, Washington State Department of Ecology
• Tim Trohimovich, 1000 Friends of Washington
• Dale Reiner, Snohomish County Farm Bureau

This session will summarize and present proposals and real examples on how we can achieve protection through a combination of regulations and incentives. Participants will share their experiences and approaches for protecting functioning habitat while respecting private property rights. Participants will also be able to discuss the types of support that would help them use both regulatory and incentive tools.

W5 UNCOVERING THE MYSTERIES OF THE NEARSHORE

Facilitators

• Brenda Kramer, Seattle Parks & Recreation
• Janna Rolland, Janna Rolland Consulting

Presenters

• Kurt Fresh, NOAA Fisheries
• Scott Redman, Puget Sound Action Team

Issue Experts

• Kathy Fletcher, People for Puget Sound
• Fred Goetz, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Commissioner Jayni Kamen, Mason County
• Commissioner Mike Shelton, Island County
• Jacques White, The Nature Conservancy
• Daryl Williams, Tulalip Tribes

Discover the latest information on how Puget Sound salmon and bull trout use the nearshore and the protection and restoration actions to support recovery in the next 10 years. Participants will discuss the policy and technical conditions necessary to implement protection and restoration actions.

W6 IMPLEMENTING THE RECOVERY PLAN—HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES FOR ACTION

Facilitators

• Steve Boyd, MacDonald Boyd & Associates
• Jon Brock, Policy Consensus Center

Presenters

• Jon Brock, Policy Consensus Center
• David Dicks, Brown, Reavis & Manning PLLC

Issue Experts

• Brad Ack, Puget Sound Action Team
• Chuck Clarke, Seattle Public Utilities
• Joan Crooks, Washington Environmental Council
• Senator Ken Jacobsen, Washington State Senate*
• Representative Skip Priest, Washington State House of Representatives*
• Mary Ruckelshaus, National Marine Fisheries Service
• Neil Warner, Hood Canal Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group
• Bill Wilkerson, Washington Forest Protection Association
• Sean Yanity, Stillaguamish Indian Tribe

What functions will be needed at the local and regional scale to support coordinated implementation of the recovery plan? What organizational structures would best fulfill these functions? This session looks at key elements that ensure a successful adaptive management program and implementation structure. Participants will be asked to provide input to the regional and local program content and measures necessary to monitor results, and how to organize a clear decision framework to ensure adaptive management occurs.

W7 THE UPSTREAM-DOWNSTREAM CONNECTION—GAINING KNOWLEDGE TO STRENGTHEN THE RELATIONSHIPS

Facilitator

• Bob Wheeler, Triangle Associates

Presenters

• Joseph Pavel, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
• Jagoda Perich-Anderson, Shared Strategy for Puget Sound

Issue Experts

• Stephen Bernath, Washington State Department of Ecology
• Representative Jim Buck, Washington State House of Representatives (invited)*
• Sherry Fox, Washington Farm Forestry Association
• Jim Peters, Squaxin Island Tribe (invited)
• Joe Ryan, Washington Environmental Council
• Representative Brian Sullivan, Washington State House of Representatives*
• Bob Turner, National Marine Fisheries Service
• Josh Weiss, Washington Forest Protection Association
• Lenny Young, Washington State Department of Natural Resources

What results can we expect from the Forest and Fish adaptive management program? Hear about monitoring and research commitments made by public and private, small and large landowners to gain knowledge needed to protect and restore habitat functions on managed forest lands. This is an opportunity to discuss information needs related to upstream and downstream interactions and impacts and ensure investments in both places pay off.

W8 SAVING FARMS AND SAVING FISH—CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AND INCENTIVE PROGRAMS

Facilitator

• Kay Kelsey Gray, Ph.D., Washington State University Extension

Presenter

• Autumn Salamack, Evergreen Funding Consultants

Issue Experts

• Brian Cladoosby, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
• John Gillies, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Lynden Field Office
• Jay Gordon, Washington State Dairy Federation
• Lisa Pelly, Washington Water Trust
• Aaron Reardon, Snohomish County Executive Office
• Senator Harriet Spanel, Washington State Senate*
• Andy Werkhoven, Snohomish County Dairy Farmer

This session focuses on how to preserve both farms and fish into the future and the incentives necessary to make it a reality. Learn about a three-part study on agriculture in which farmers spoke about which incentives work best for them and why. Participants will be able to help refine an incentive strategy and suggest ways to encourage it works for farmers and fish.

W9 THE WATER QUANTITY OPERA—HOW CAN WE WRITE THE HAPPY ENDING?

Facilitator

• Jim Reid, The Falconer Group

Presenter

• Steve Hirschey, Washington State Department of Ecology

Issue Experts

• Josh Baldi, Washington Environmental Council (With the Dept. of Ecology since 2005)
• Jim Miller, City of Everett
• Terry Williams, Tulalip Tribes

Protecting and restoring instream flows is an essential component of recovering and maintaining salmon populations. A Shared Strategy sub-committee has been meeting on this topic. The session will focus on how to make progress on this challenging issue and give participants a chance to add creative ideas for addressing it.

5:00–8:30 P.M.

SHARED STRATEGY RECOGNITION CEREMONY AND DINNER

Emcee

• Ralph Munro, Chair, Shared Strategy for Puget Sound Board
  of Directors

Back by popular demand! The Honorable (dynamic and humorous) Ralph Munro will preside over the Recognition Ceremony again this year. A no-host beverage reception will begin the festivities, followed by dinner.

Salmon—A Northwest Icon: Multi-Media Presentation #3

JANUARY 27, 2005

7:30–8:30 A.M.

REGISTRATION CHECK-IN (UNTIL 2:00 P.M.)

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30–10:30 A.M.

GENERAL SESSION: REFINING THE REGIONAL PLAN

Moderators

• Jim Kramer, Executive Director, Shared Strategy for Puget Sound
• Jagoda Perich-Anderson, Associate Director, Shared Strategy
  for Puget Sound

Panel

• Steve Boyd, MacDonald Boyd & Associates
• Jon Brock, Policy Consensus Center
• Craig Fleck, Demeter Matrix Alliance
• Kay Kelsey Gray, Ph.D., Washington State University Extension
• Lunell Haught, Haught Strategies
• Brenda Kramer, Seattle Parks & Recreation
• Jim Reid, The Falconer Group
• Bill Ross, Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, Ltd.
• Stephanie Ryan, Demeter Matrix Alliance
• Bob Wheeler, Triangle Associates

The facilitators from Wednesday’s breakouts will present recommendations on the strategies and needs identified in those afternoon sessions.

This Can Work! How It Can Work: Multi-Media Presentation #4

10:30–10:45 A.M.

BEVERAGE BREAK

10:45 A.M.–Noon

GENERAL SESSION: FEDERAL, STATE AND REGIONAL LEADERS—STATEMENTS OF COMMITMENT

Moderator

• Bill Ruckelshaus, Chair, Shared Strategy Development Committee

Panel

• David Allen, Northwest Regional Administrator, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• Joan Crooks, Executive Director, Washington Environmental Council (invited)
• Norm Dicks, Representative, U.S. House of Representatives*
• Billy Frank, Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
• Jeff Koenings, Director, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife
• Darlene Kordonowy, Mayor, City of Bainbridge Island
• Bob Lohn, Regional Administrator, NOAA Fisheries
• Aaron Reardon, County Executive, Snohomish County
• Ron Sims, County Executive, King County
• Bill Wilkerson, Executive Director, Washington Forest Protection Association

Leaders representing the tribes, federal agencies, state agencies, local governments, business, agriculture and forestry sectors and environmental organizations will share their:

• Vision for the future of people and salmon in our region;
• Commitments to help implement the recovery plan;
• Specific requests they have of others to help them fulfill their commitments.

Noon–1:00 P.M.

WORKING LUNCH

Participants will have a chance to develop and refine policy positions based on new information or insights gained from earlier discussions at the Summit. Participants are encouraged to consider how they would answer the questions to be asked during the 1:00 P.M. session. (Questions are identified in the 1:00 P.M. session description.)

1:00–2:00 P.M.

GENERAL SESSION: COMMUNITY AND LOCAL ELECTED LEADERS—STATEMENTS OF COMMITMENT

Moderators

• Jim Kramer, Executive Director, Shared Strategy for Puget Sound
• Jagoda Perich-Anderson, Associate Director, Shared Strategy
  for Puget Sound

Refining the direction for recovery, community and local elected leaders who are in the audience will speak to:

• What their hopes are for the future of people and salmon;
• What they are prepared to contribute over the next 10 years to improve conditions for salmon;
• What questions still need to be addressed or conditions met in order for them to commit to the plan.

A Vision of Hope and Progress: Multi-Media Presentation #5

2:00–3:00 P.M.

GENERAL SESSION: LAUNCHING THE IMPLEMENTATION PHASE—CELEBRATING THE FIRST STEPS

Closing Remarks

• Bill Ruckelshaus, Chair, Shared Strategy Development Committee
• Governor, Washington State (invited)*

3:00 P.M.

SUMMIT CONCLUDES