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RangeNet 2002

Bovines or Biodiversity:
The National Campaign to End Abusive Public Lands Ranching

In Tribute to Dr. Joy Belsky

Wednesday, Oct. 9, Boise Art Museum (pre-conference)

• 7:00 p.m. - Conference reception. No-host bar.

• 8:00 p.m. - Slide presentation and book-signing

  • George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson, editors of "Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West"

Thursday, Oct. 10, Boise State University

• 8:00 a.m. - Conference registration and continental breakfast

• 9:00 a.m. - "Conservation in Action: The Life and Work of Joy Belsky"

  • Elizabeth Painter, advisory board, Western Watersheds Project

• 9:15 a.m. - "Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West"

  • George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson, National Public Lands Grazing Campaign

• 10.00 a.m. - Drawing for "Welfare Ranching" books

  • Pre-registration by Sept. 30 required for eligibility.

• 10:30 a.m. - "Legal Frameworks for Public Lands Ranching" 

  • Laird Lucas, attorney, Western Watersheds Project and Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, Boise 

  • William Myers, Solicitor, US Dept. of the Interior, Washington, DC

• Noon - Lunch

• 1:30 p.m. - "The Future of Public Lands Ranching: Mythology, Ecology, Sociology and Public Policy"

  • Jon Marvel, executive director, Western Watersheds Project

  • Ed Marston, publisher, High Country News

• 3:00 p.m. - "Dollars and Sense: The National Public Lands Grazing Campaign" 

  • Andy Kerr, director, National Public Lands Grazing Campaign

  • Mark Salvo, counselor, NPLGC

  • Gilly Lyons, eastern representative, NPLGC 

• 4:30 p.m. - Hospitality hour and no-host bar (University Inn) 

• 6:00 p.m. - Dinner

• 7:00 p.m. - Keynote address: "Post-Cowboy Economics in the New West"

  • Thomas Michael Power, author of "Post-Cowboy Economics: Pay and Prosperity in the New West"

• 8:30 p.m. - Edward Abbey Memorial Hooved Locust Award

  • Recipient to be announced

• 9:00 p.m. - Reception and no-host bar (University Inn)

Friday, Oct. 11, Boise State University

• 8:30 a.m. - Continental breakfast

• 9:00 a.m. - "Bovines vs. Biodiversity: A Scientific Almanac"

  • John Carter, Utah director, Western Watersheds Project 

  • Elizabeth Painter, advisory board, Western Watersheds Project

• 10:00 a.m. - "The Changing West" 

  • Report From Utah: Patrick Diehl, Escalante Wilderness Project 

  • Report From New Mexico: John Horning, Forest Guardians

  • Report From Arizona: Jeff Burgess, BLM Rangeland Resource Team (Phoenix)

  • Report From Oregon: Bill Marlett, executive director, Oregon Natural Desert Association

  • Report From Montana: Glenn Hockett, Gallatin Wildlife Association

  • Report From Colorado: John Graham, SINAPU

  • Report From Idaho and Nevada: Katie Fite, Committee for Idaho's High Desert

  • Report from Wyoming, Ray Corning, Sierra Club

• 11:30 a.m. - "How the West Will Be Won"

  • Andy Kerr, director, National Public Lands Grazing Campaign

  • NPLGC Steering Committee representatives:

    • American Lands Alliance (Randi Spivak)

    • Center for Biological Diversity (Martin Taylor)

    • Committee for Idaho's High Desert (Katie Fite)

    • Forest Guardians (John Horning)

    • Oregon Natural Desert Association (Bill Marlett)

    • Western Watersheds Project (Jon Marvel)

  • Larry Walker, founder, RangeNet

• 1:00 p.m. - End of conference. 

Post-conference: 2nd Annual Greenfire Revival

•  Participants are invited to proceed to Western Watersheds Project's 432-acre Greenfire Preserve on the East Fork of the Salmon River for the second annual Greenfire Revival Oct. 11-13. (Camping only on premises. Motel accommodations available in Stanley and Challis.)
  

Contributing Sponsors

• The Larch Company

• Animal Protection Institute

• Ventana Wilderness Alliance

• Center for Biological Diversity

• Sinapu

• American Lands Alliance

• Oregon Natural Desert Association

• Northwest Ecosystem Alliance

• Idaho Conservation League

Video by Earthwaves Media

Lead Sponsor/Organizer

• Western Watersheds Project, Inc. (WWP)

  • RangeNet.org, a special project of WWP

RangeNet 2003

RangeNet 2003 will be held in Boulder, CO in the early fall of next year. The dates will be announced during RangeNet 2002.