Northwest Land Camp

Schedule

Full schedule coming soon. View Schedule At-A-Glance here.

2024 Plenary Speaker

List of Workshops

board member workshops

Going Public: Why You Should Upend Your Board Recruitment Process
Daniel Student, Managing Director, Consulting Potrero Group

Making Planning Work for Your Trust
Marc Smiley, Principal, Solid Ground Consulting

Growing Your Board to Meet the Evolving Needs of Your Trust and Your Community
Marc Smiley, Principal, Solid Ground Consulting

Organizational Strength Workshops

Climate Grief: Building Understanding and Resilience
Addie Candib, Pacific Northwest Regional Director, American Farmland Trust; Maud Powell, Oregon State University Extension

Introducing New Indigenous Land Trusts
Presenters TBA

Land Back in the PNW: An exploration of tools and ways to support and promote Native lands in Native hands and investing in healing the land and its people
Tim Lehman, Northern Arapaho, Office of Planning and Community Development, Indigenous Planning Stategist, City of Seattle, Office of Planning & Community, Development; Sarah Augustine, Executive Director, Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery; Veryl Pow, Staff Attorney, Sustainable Economies Law Center; Renea Perry, Tlingit/Inupiat/N.Euro, Executive Director, Portland All Nations Canoe Family; Aaron Clark, E'lip Tilikum Conservancy Director, Na'ah Illahee Fund, (moderator); With support from: Janelle Orsi, Co-Founder and Staff Attorney, Sustainable Economies Law Center

Public Access and Recreational Immunity in Oregon and Washington
Nancy Duhnkrack, Pro Bono Program Manager, Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts; Jessica McDonald, Executive Director, Greenbelt Land Trust; Steve Cook, General Counsel, Columbia Land Trust

A Roadmap for Growing Land Trust Impact: Lessons from Oregon
Owen Wozniak, Land Transactions Program Manager, Land Trust Alliance; Glenn Lamb, Philanthropic Project Manager, Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts; Carlos Garcia, Senior Program Officer for the Environment, Oregon Community Foundation; Brad Paymar, Western Division Director of Field Programs, Land Trust Alliance

Additional workshop TBA

CONSERVATION WORKSHOPS

Artificial Lawyer EXperience (ALEX): Using AI to Review Conservation Easements
Rebekah Bergkoetter, Land Steward, Southern Oregon Land Conservancy; ALEX

Chimacum Ridge Community Forest - Acquisition to Start-up
Erik Kingfisher, Stewardship Director, Jefferson Land Trust; Ryen Helzer, Community Forest Manager, Jefferson Land Trust

Farmland Affordability & Conservation Easements - Discussion of Opportunities and Challenges in Washington State
Hilary Aten, Associate Director, Washington Farmland Trust; Duncan Greene, Partner, Van Ness Feldman LLP; Clara Park, Partner, Van Ness Feldman LLP; Robert Farrell, Attorney, Van Ness Feldman LLP; Liberty Quihuis, Associate, Van Ness Feldman LLP

Land Access, perspectives on the sourcing, development, and program management from Greenleaf and Outgrowing Hunger
Eric Pond, Farmer & Program Manager, Greenleaf & Outgrowing Hunger; Adam Kohl, Executive Director, Outgrowing Hunger

Always Better Together: Watershed Protection
Nikki Guillot, Source Water Protection Program Manager, Washington State Dept. of Health; Stan Hoffman, Watershed Protection Coordinator, WA State Dept of Health

Supporting Intergenerational Succession and Transfer of Working Lands
Addie Candib, Pacific Northwest Regional Director, American Farmland Trust; Kate Delavan, Office of Farmland Preservation Coordinator, Washington State Conservation Commission; Alexandra James, Conservation Director, Capitol Land Trust

The Forest for the Trees - Collaborative Oak Conservation at Multiple Scales
Lindsay Cornelius, East Cascades Oak Partnership Manager, Columbia Land Trust; Sara Evans-Peters, U.S. Assistant Coordinator, Pacific Birds

StewarDship Workshops

Carbon for Conservation
Travis Croft, Program Manager, The Climate Trust; Jeremy Koslowski, Director Forest Carbon Partnerships, The Climate Trust; Colin Meston, Stewardship Manager, North Coast Land Conservancy

The Three C’s of Biochar: Carbon, Conservation, and Cultivation. Exploring technologies and innovations that maximize the positive impacts of sequestering carbon in working and native soils
Keith Veselka, CEO & Orchard Operations Manager, NWFM LLC; Jim Amonette, Ph.D., Senior Research Geochemist, PNNL and Research Professor of Soil Chemistry, WSU; David Drinkard - VP of Biomass Processing, Qualterra; Sharol Marcec, Ph.D., Field Trial Scientist, Qualterra; Tim O'Brien, VP of Sales & Marketing, Qualterra

Climate Adaptation Strategies in Practice
Rowan Braybrook, Director of Programs, Northwest Natural Resource Group; Justin Hall, President, Nisqually Community Forest; Rolf Gersonde, Forest Ecologist, Seattle Public Utilities; Gustavo Segura Flores, Forester, Northwest Natural Resource Group

Ecological Forest Management Options for a Changing Climate
Kirk Hanson, Director of Forestry, Northwest Natural Resource Group; Adrian Wolf, Stewardship Manager, Great Peninsula Conservancy; Ian Sinks, Stewardship Director, Columbia Land Trust

Finding the flowers in the trees: stewarding coastal meadows and woodlands of the Salish Sea
Samantha Martin, Restoration Ecologist, Ecostudies Institute; Adam Martin, Conservation Science Project Manager, Ecostudies Institute

Monitoring to Increase Resilience
Amy Borde, Monitoring Program Manager, Columbia Land Trust; Helen Gavrilov, Land Steward, Columbia Land Trust; Elizabeth Martin, GIS Specialist, Columbia Land Trust; Stacy Simanonok, East Cascades Oak Partnership Technical Coordinator, Columbia Land Trust

Prescribed Fire on Conserved Lands
Lindsay Cornelius, East Cascades Oak Partnership Manager, Columbia Land Trust; Addtional presenters TBA

Wildlife Track & Sign Interpretation for Land Trusts
Sarah Spaeth, Director, Conservation & Strategic Partnerships, Jefferson Land Trust, Tracker Certification N America Board Member; David Moskowitz, Tracker Certification N America Board Member and Track & Sign Evaluator, Author of Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest

Development Workshops

Bridging the Gap - Fast & Creative Ways to Secure Land While Finding Funding
Nancy Chase, Pro Bono Negotiations & Acquisition funding , Retired Acquisition specialist; Jon Wickersham, Associate Director, North Coast Land Conservancy; John Rose, Co-founder, Washington Opportunity Fund, Washington Opportunity Fund; Patty Rose, Co-founder, Washington Opportunity Fund; Curt Soper, Advisor, Washington Opportunity Fund; Michael Kirshenbaum, Conservation Director, Skagit Land Trust

Community Centric Fundraising: what is it and how do I operationalize it?
Sean M. Watts, PhD, Owner, SM Watts Consulting; Emily Torres Barton, Development Director, Greenbelt Land Trust

Engaging Your Members with Planned Giving
Laura Hartner, Development & Outreach Director, Skagit Land Trust; Additional presenters TBA

Fundraising Roundtable: ABCs - Getting your Letters in Order
Laura Hartner, Development & Outreach Director, Skagit Land Trust; Jaime Jovanovich-Walker, Communications & Development Coordinator, Palouse Land Trust

Getting Through Fear About Asking for Money in Person
David Allen, Principal Consultant, Development for Conservation

Small Shop Development Effectiveness: the metrics, benchmarks, and ideas to implement
Jaime Jovanovich-Walker, Communications & Development Coordinator, Palouse Land Trust

Marketing, Communications & Engagement Workshops

Community Engagement Strategies that Work
Rika Ayotte, Executive Director, Deschutes Land Trust; Nick Viele, Facilitator, Partner, c3strategy; Amelia Pape, Principal, Network Approach; Jessica McDonald, Executive Director, Greenbelt Land Trust

Putting the “Community” in Community Forest Planning: Designing a collaborative and inclusive strategic vision framework for the Stewart Mountain Community Forest
Claire Johnston, Whatcom Land Trust Communications Director, Whatcom Land Trust; Alex Jeffers, Whatcom Land Trust Conservation Director

Shouting Into the Void: Why Social Media is No Longer Working for You and What to Do About It
Patrick Williams, Director of Creative Services, Bold Bison; Brandon Hayes, Founder and Principal, Bold Bison

Trail Tales: Challenges and Solutions to Storytelling through QR Code-Driven Interpretive Trail Signage
Tim Dobyns, Communications and Engagement Director, Friends of the Columbia Gorge; Sara Woods, Stewardship Manager, Friends of the Columbia Gorge

Wielding Sarcasm and Surprise to Scale Your Integrated Email Campaigns
Marcy Timblin, Communications Director, Kaniksu Land Trust; Jaime Jovanovich-Walker, Communications & Development Coordinator, Palouse Land Trust