Ripples Across Wyoming

Natural Resource Collaboration and its impacts

April 19, 2024 | Jackson, Wyoming 

Teton Science School Jackson Campus

700 Canyon Road, Jackson, WY 83001

Join us at the 2024 Collaboration Symposium, where we’ll explore the many shades and shapes that collaboration takes in the real world, learn from each other’s successes and failures, and bid farewell to Ruckelshaus legend Steve Smutko, who will be retiring in May. This event is open to anyone working collaboratively in natural resource spaces. 

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Goals

• Connect with a community of professionals who are putting collaboration into practice around natural resource and environmental issues
• Hone, grow, or refresh our collaborative skill set through group learning, case studies, and skills sessions. 

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Registration

Registration costs $65 and includes lunch.

50% scholarships are available. To request one, contact deb@lupinecollaborative.com.

Register by April 8th.

Agenda

 

April 18th

6-7:30pm: Happy hour and social gathering (Please RSVP here > )

 

April 19th

Throughout the day, interactive sessions will focus on peer learning around three "ripple effects"—cultivating internal collaborative cultures, making existing processes more collaborative, and creating collaboration where it doesn't yet exist. 

8-8:45am: Coffee and networking

8:45-9:15am: Welcome and warm up - Rapid networking

9:15-11:15am: Opening discussion and activity: Three things I wish I had known earlier in my career

• Mary Margaret Golten (Founder, Mediator, CDR Associates)
• John Ehrmann (Cofounder, Senior Fellow, Meridian Institute)
• Moderator - Steve Smutko (Associate Dean, Spicer Chair of Collaborative Practice, Haub School)

11:15am-12:15pm: Collaboration and Tribal Sovereignty: The story of Bears Ears National Monument 

• Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk (Cross Cultural Programs Manager, Montezuma Land Conservancy and Former Co-chair, Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition)
• Moderator - Melanie Armstrong (Ruckelshaus Institute Director, Haub School)

12:15-1:15pm: Lunch

1:15-2:45pm: World Cafe: Two rounds of interactive, small group discussions

• Help conceptualize and design a collaboratives futures game around water and the West - Caitlin Ryan (Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyoming Anticipating Climate Transitions, University of Wyoming and CPNR '23)
• Cultivating internal collaborative cultures - Kyle Bernis (Wyoming State Parks and CPNR '21) and Beth Bear (Wyoming Game and Fish and CPNR '23)
• The Rock Springs RMP: Using collaboration to improve federal planning processes - Selena Gerace (School of Energy Resources and CPNR '18) and Melanie Armstrong (Ruckelshaus Institute Director)
• Collaboration, Tribal sovereignty, and co-management - Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk (Cross Cultural Programs Manager, Montezuma Land Conservancy and Former Co-chair, Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition)

2:45-3pm: Break

3-4:15pm: Afternoon discussion: How collaboration can transform organizations and communities

• Jeff Cowley (Administrator, Interstate Streams, Wyoming State Engineer's Office and CPNR '17)
• Chip Jenkins (Superintendent, Grand Teton National Park)
• Linda Merigliano (Public Engagement Specialist and Recreation Program Manager (Jackson District), Bridger-Teton National Forest)
• Moderator - Melanie Armstrong (Ruckelshaus Institute Director, Haub School)

4:15-4:30 Wrap up

4:30-5:30: Casual social hour