Contributed by: Mark Nystrom, AOC Energy, Environment and Land Use Policy Manager
August 2, 2016
The Oregon Natural Desert Association is holding its 2016 conference in Bend on October 14th. The meeting will feature a keynote from Nancy Langston, an environmental historian who has conducted extensive research on the history of eastern Oregon’s Malheur basin and authored the noted book Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. Then there will be four panel discussions:
Panel #1 – Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: A Moment of Conflict, A History of Collaboration
Panel #2 – Greater Sage-grouse: The Key(stone) to Compromise
Panel #3 – Sutton Mountain: Where Economics and Conservation Collide and Coincide
Panel #4 – Shared Visions for the Future of Oregon’s High Desert
The meeting will be held Friday, October 14, 8am-6pm at the Unitarian Universalist Campus 61980 Skyline Ranch Road, Bend.