The Hood Canal Environmental Achievement Awards and Conference
Location: Alderbrook Resort and Spa on the shores of Hood Canal
Conference Program
Date: November 6, 2009
MORNING SESSION:
10 a.m. Registration
10:30 a.m. Welcome and Awards Ceremony
(See 2009 Award Recipients Below)
2009 Awards Slide Show
11:30 a.m. Buffet Lunch
1:00pm
Introduction to the Hood Canal Integrated Watershed Action Plan (IWAP)
IWAP Power Point (PDF fomat)
IWAP Draft Summary
AFTERNOON SESSION:
Panel One: Successful Integration Models from Around the Pacific Northwest and Community Discussion/Input
John Shurts, Northwest Power and Conservation Council Power Point Presentation
Brian Lipscomb, Executive Director, Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife
Authority Power Point Presentaion
Jeff Breckel, Executive Director, Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board
Power Point Presentatioin
John Souder, Executive Director, Coos Watershed Association
Panel Two: A Funder's View of Implementing Integrated Resouce Plans and Community Discussion/Input
Special Presentation: Preparing an Integration Plan for the Hood Canal Watershed and Community Discussion/Input
Registration Form
To register please send $15.00 (checks payable to HCCC) with your name, organization and e-mail address no later than November 1st to Robin Lawlis, Hood Canal Coordinating Council, 17791 Fjord Drive NE, Suite 130, Poulsbo, WA 98370.
For more information contact Robin Lawlis 360-394-0046.
AWARDS PROGRAM NOTICE: MEET THE AWARD WINNERS
The Awards Program is an annual event that honors communities, individuals, groups, and agencies for their dedication to protecting, enhancing and restoring the natural resources and water quality of the Hood Canal watershed. See previous awardees, click here
Announcing the 2009 Hood Canal Environmental Achievement Award Recipients
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION CATEGORY
Bruce Macdonald
Bruce joined Great Peninsula Conservancy’s board of directors in 2002 and retired this year. He served a term as president and during that time provided the organizational leadership to expand the board of directors, hiring both a new executive director and conservation director. His areas of interest with GPC included building relationships with the business community, identifying mutually beneficial partnerships, and developing marketing strategies.
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION CATEGORY
Gary Cunningham
Gary was a founding member of Kitsap Land Trust – serving first as secretary and later as president from 1989-2000. Gary led the merger process that created Great Peninsula Conservancy in 2000, and has been on the board since then. He donates his legal services for conservation transactions at GPC. He has volunteered countless hours to meet with landowners, walk properties, and negotiate sometimes complex land deals.
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION CATEGORY
Phil Best
Phil has been an attorney in Kitsap County since 1967, with an emphasis in real property, environmental, and land use issues. In 1969, he helped found and was the first president of Hood Canal Environmental Council. He was also a founder and first president of Kitsap Land Trust in the 1980s, and has served on the Great Peninsula Conservancy board since its beginning in 2000. Phil served a term as Kitsap County Commissioner from 1995-1998 where as a member of the Hood Canal Coordinating Council board supported the mission of HCCC.
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION CATEGORY
Rick Fackler (posthumous)
Rick was a lifelong advocate for open space preservation. In 1996, Rick moved to Kitsap County to serve as the coordinator of the county’s Open Space Program. Rick joined the GPC board in 2007, and was scheduled to become president of GPC this July. Rick had tremendous expertise in land conservation, extensive personal contacts with GPC partners, and a passion for land conservation. He served as chair of GPC’s Conservation Committee where he participated in many field visits to new conservation properties and helped shape the final projects. Rick was immensely respected and liked by his colleagues at GPC.
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION CATEGORY
Jefferson Land Trust
The list of contributions of the Jefferson Land Trust (JLT) toward the health of the Canal, and the region is exhaustive. The JLT has established numerous conservation easements and protections to the watershed of the Canal. Recent accomplishments include negotiating a natural easement that is adjacent to Fort Townsend State Park, arranging a lease of critical shoreline on Squamish Harbor, and easements along Tarboo Creek – protecting the waters of Tarboo Bay.
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION CATEGORY
Washington On-site Sewage Association (WOSSA)
Since 2008, the Washington On-site Sewage Association has been educating homeowners with their popular community outreach radio talk show—“Septic Solutions.” The show, developed by executive director John Thomas, provides a perfect venue for reaching current and future on-site users, while creating an opportunity for education and “myth busting” and enabling listeners to call. One of WOSSA’s goals is to have people make the responsible decision to get their systems inspected and maintained as needed to protect and enhance Hood Canal’s environmental quality in the process.
GOVERNMENT CATEGORY
Dean M Renner, P.E. Stream Mechanics Engineer, USDA Natural Resources conservation Service
Dean Renner has deep and competent experience in River Engineering. He is stickler for details, but always gentleman during the design review process by NRCS. Dean provided the design review engineer for the Little Quilcene River Restoration Project and Klingel Wetlands, and Shine Estuary Restoration Projects. Dean deserves special recognition since his efforts as well as many of his colleagues bring considerable resources in Wetland Restoration to Kitsap, Mason, and Jefferson Counties.
GOVERNMENT CATEGORY
Robin Stoddard, Olympic National Forest
Thanks in large part to Robin’s exceptional skill, creativity, and determination, the Forest Service has successfully accomplished – on schedule and within budget – a phenomenal amount of restoration work in the South Fork Skokomish River watershed. Robin will present the Skokomish watershed story as part of the U.S. delegation at the World Forestry Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, one of three restoration case studies in the U.S. Robin works very well with the Skokomish Tribal members and staff and her great amount of energy and enthusiasm for the watershed restoration has inspired many key stakeholders in the Skokomish watershed to work together for the good of the river.
GOVERNMENT CATEGORY
Peter Goldmark, Commissioner of Public Lands
In May of 2009, Peter Goldmark, the new Commissioner of Public Lands, approved the proposal for expanding the Dabob Bay Natural Area Preserve from 350 acres to over 3,600 acres. Approximately 2,000 acres of state timberlands within these boundaries are being transferred into Natural Area status for permanent protection. This is the largest marine shoreline protected area in Hood Canal and a flagship project for Puget Sound. This award is a tribute to his leadership and to the DNR staff and many organizations, shellfish growers, and landowners that helped make it happen.
GOVERNMENT CATEGORY
Leslie Banigan
Since 2005, Leslie Banigan has been leading the Kitsap County Health District, pollution identification and correction project along the Hood Canal shoreline. Thirty one failing septic systems have been identified and corrected along 33 miles of shoreline. Leslie’s unmatched determination and professionalism are the reason for the success of the project. The last piece of the project is the clean up of the Lofall Creek, we have no doubt that she will be successful.