COMMUNITY FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Annual Workshop, September 23-28, 2008
Craftsbury Outdoor Center, Craftsbury Common, Vermont
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
Steering Committee arrives at Burlington Airport by 6:00 pm.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Breakfast:
9:00- 9:45
9:00 – 5:00 Steering Committee meeting.
Lunch:
1:00 – 1:45
All other workshop participants
 Arrive at Burlington Airport by 4:00. Meet in baggage claim area for the
bus to the meeting site.
 Travel to Craftsbury Outdoor Center – arrive by 6:00 p.m.
 Check in
 Set up poster displays
Dinner:
6:00 – 6:45
7:00 – 9:00 Introductions
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Breakfast:
7:30 – 8:15
8:15 – 9:00 Overview of Participatory Research, CFERP Program, &
Workshop Agenda – Carl Wilmsen
9:00 – 10:30 Pathways for Participatory Research – Heidi Ballard and
Jonathan Long
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Break out into Cohort groups
Undergraduates
M.A. fellows
Predissertation fellows
Dissertation fellows
Community Partners
Faculty
Lunch:
12:00 – 12:45
1:00 – 2:30 Stewarding Ecosystems for Health and Livelihoods
Facilitator: Jill Belsky
1:00 – 1:20
1:20 – 1:40
1:40 – 2:00
2:00 – 2:30
Abigail Nelson & Chay Donnelly, Wolf habitat
selection and predation patterns in the Absaroka
Mountains of Wyoming: identifying the drivers of
wolf-livestock conflict
Introduced by Matthew Kaufman
Anna Godduhn & Susie Sam, The Northway
Harvest and Health Project
Introduced by Elizabeth Guilette
Keith Tidball & Jean Fahr, Trees and Rebirth:
Urban Community Forestry in Post-Katrina
Resilience
Introduced by Marianne Krasny
Discussion
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 4:15 Community-based Natural Resource Management
Facilitator: Louise Fortmann
2:45 – 3:05
Matthew Hoffman & Patti Smith, Community and
Stewardship in the Green Mountains
Introduced by Charles Geisler
3:05 – 3:15
3:15 – 3:25
3:25 – 3:55
Mehana Vaughn (via satellite), Ahupua'a Based
Resource Management in Hawai'i, Constituting
Common Property in the Face of Rapid Change
Alex Kudryatsev, Urban forestry and restoration:
Nurturing environmental stewards
Discussion
3:55 – 6:00 Free time
Dinner:
6:00 – 6:45
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Breakfast:
7:30 – 8:15
8:15 Overview of Day’s Schedule
8:15 – 10:00 Methodological Strategies – Jill Belsky
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 12:00 Questions That Won’t Go Away (QTWGAs) – Jonathan Long
and Heidi Ballard
12:00 Field Trip to Little Hogback Community Forest
The Little Hogback Community Forest is a project of Vermont Family
Forests in which community members buy shares in a 115 acre parcel of
forest land in Monkton, Vermont. The shares confer rights to cut firewood,
harvest timber, hike, hunt, and camp, but not to subdivide, develop or
overharvest. The goals of the project are to protect forest health and allow
community members, who otherwise might not be able to afford to buy
forest land, to hold the carefully managed forest land. For more information
visit the VFF website at http://www.familyforests.org/research/commequity.shtml.
12:00 -- depart Craftsbury Outdoor Center
box lunch on the bus
ice cream break at Ben and Jerry's
2:30 -- arrive at Little Hogback Community Forest
2:30 -- 5:30 activities at LHCF
5:30 -- bus ride to Monkton Central School
6:00 -- dinner and informal discussion with LHCF members
7:30 -- depart for Craftsbury Outdoor Center
9:00 -- arrival at Craftsbury Outdoor Center
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Breakfast:
7:30 – 8:15
8:15 Overview of Day’s Schedule
8:30 – 10:00 From Conflict to Collaboration
Facilitator: Dreamal Worthen
8:30 – 8:50
Lenya Quinn-Davidson (Masters fellow 2008) &
Nadya Novack, Perceptions of Prescribed Fire in
Collaborative Landscape Management: Social
dimensions of burning in Hayfork, CA
Introduced by Yvonne Everett
Melanie Stansbury (Predissertation fellow 2008),
Understanding the Social Dimensions of Watershed
Conflict in Indian Country: A Case Study of the State
of New Mexico vs. Aamodt Water Rights Conflict
Carla Norwood (Dissertation Fellow, 2007),
Participatory mapping for community-based
planning
Joyce Lecompt-Mastenbrook (Predissertation
fellow 2008), The Social Worlds of the Mountain
Huckleberry
Discussion
8:50 – 9:00
9:00 – 9:20
9:20 – 9:30
9:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:15
10:15 – 11:45
Break
Strengthening Communities
Facilitator: Marla Emery
10:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:45
Eveli Abeyta (Undergraduate Intern 2008) Adaptive
Landscape Management at Santo Domingo Pueblo
Gaylen Lee (Undergraduate Intern 2008) Protection
of Environmental and Cultural Resources at North
Fork Rancheria
10:45 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:45
Rosalie Carnam (Undergraduate Intern 2008)
Labor Policy and Working Conditions in the Forests
of the Pacific Northwest
Camille Lewis (Undergraduate Intern 2008) The
Untold Story: Water war in the tri-state area
Discussion
Lunch: 12:00 – 12:45
1: 00 – 2:10 Water, Justice and Health
Facilitator: Jonathan Long
1:00 – 1:10
1:10 – 1:20
1:20 – 1:40
1:30 – 2:10
Emily Evans (Predissertation fellow 2008),
Volunteer Citizen Science: Water Quality Monitoring
in the Laguna Creek Watershed
Raoul Lievanos (Predissertation fellow 2008),
Unpacking Privileged Access and Accounts around
Water Quality: 'EJ Communities' Moving Beyond
Third Parties in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Laura Eichelberger (Dissertation fellow 2008) &
Darlene Hadley, Alaska's Great Thirst: Water,
Wastewater, and Health in the Northwest Arctic
Borough
Discussion
2:10 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3:50 Community Gardens and Education
Facilitator: Carl Wilmsen
2:30 – 2:45
2:45 – 3:05
3:05 – 3:20
3:20 – 3:50
Daniel Lim (Undergraduate Intern 2008), Urban
Green Spaces: Community Environmental and
Cultural Resource
Oghenekome Onokpise (advisor to undergraduate
research assitant Shaumese Massesy), Forestry and
Conservation Education Summer Program for
Minority High School Students
Brandon Scales (Undergraduate Intern 2008),
Community Gardens in Nashville, Tennessee
Discussion
3:50 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 5:00 – Strategies for Maintaining and Strengthening Partnerships
Facilitated Discussions by Heidi Ballard, Jill Belsky, Jonathan Long,
and Carl Wilmsen
5:00 – 5:30 – Evaluation of Workshop and Wrap-up
Dinner:
5:45 – 6:30
8:00 – 10:00 Musical performance by Jim Daniels and band
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Breakfast:
8:00 – 8:45
9:00 am Depart for airport – Motor Coach bus