Held on Thursday April 5th and Friday April 6th, 2007, This free public symposium brought together a diversity of voices to discuss, redefine, and explore the meaning of wilderness in todays world.

San Francisco State University
Cesar Chavez Student Center

1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132

Redefining Wilderness Schedule

April 5th, 2007

Compass Points: Academic and community members identify and discuss their definitions, values, and work affecting and influenced by wilderness.

• Introduction Speaker
  9:15 am – 9:45 am
  Nina Roberts (bio), Ph.D., SFSU

• Panel A: A Living Wilderness
  10:00 am – 11:30 am
  Conservation scientists and scholars join conservation activists to discuss the past and future value of wilderness for the health of humans and wildlife.
  Moderator: Gretchen Lebuhn (bio), Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University
  Panelists:
  – Brent Plater (bio), Center for Biological Diversity
  – Ariana Katovich (bio), Restoration Initiative Director, Earth Island Institute
  – Leslie Saul (bio), Co-Founder, The Center For Ecosystem Survival

• Address from the Office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
  11:35 am – 11:40 am
  Melanie Nutter, Deputy District Director, Office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi

• Panel B: Wilderness and the Politics of Land Management
  11:45 am – 1:15 pm
  Land managers and wilderness supervisors join leaders of conservation organizations to discuss the changing values, successes, and challenges of wilderness management.
  Moderator: Neal Desai (bio), Bay Area Program Manager, National Parks Conservation Association
  Panelists:
  – Gregg Fauth (bio), Wilderness Coordinator for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park
  – Mia Monroe, Site Supervisor, Muir Woods National Monument
  – Paul Hughes (bio), Executive Director, Forests Forever
  – Mike Painter (bio), Coordinator, Californians for Western Wilderness
  – Cyril Kormos (bio), Vice President for Policy, WILD Foundation

• Panel C: The Who and How of Wilderness Use
  1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
  Traditional user groups join a new generation of wilderness users along with social scientists and psychologists to discuss the evolving personal and social values of wilderness.
  Moderator: Steve Hagler (bio), Youth Investment Manager, Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council
  Panelists:
  – Chelsea Griffie (bio), Program Director, Bay Area Wilderness Training
  – Kelly Bloom, Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Parks, Recreation & Tourism, Univ. of Utah
  – Priscilla McKenney (bio), Program Director, GirlVentures
  – Jim Hasenauer (bio), Founder, International Mountain Bicycling Association; Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at CSU Northridge.
  – Mandy Vance (bio), WildLink, Yosemite Institute

• Panel D: Toward a Philosophy of Wilderness
  3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
  Wilderness scholars and writers join social theorists in an attempt to clearly define the role of wilderness in a postmodern society.
  Moderator: Kenn Burrows (bio), Core faculty, Institute for Holistic Health Studies and Founder, The SFSU Holistic Health Learning Center
  Panelists:
  – Kim S. Uhlik (bio), Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Leadership and Administration Emphasis, San Jose State University
  – Enrique Salmon (bio), Lecturer, American Indian Studies Department, San Francisco State University
  – Terry Nail (bio), CEO and Founder, Children Are Our Future
  – Dave Talamo (bio), MFT, Founder of Wilderness Reflections

• Closing Speaker
  5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
  Joel Kassiola (bio), Dean of the College of Behavior and Social Sciences, SFSU

April 6th, 2007

Trail Junctions: Reconciling perspectives to identify our common ground of wilderness values

• Welcome
  9:00 am – 9:10 am

• Logistics and Overview
  9:10 am – 9:30 am
  Highlighting Our Common Paths into the Future of Wilderness
  Moderator: Kenn Burrows (bio), Core faculty, Institute for Holistic Health Studies and Founder, The SFSU Holistic Health Learning Center

• Full Panel Discussion
  9:30 am – 10:30 am

• Group Dialgoue: Explanation and Selection Process
  10:30 am – 10:45 am

• Break
  10:45 am – 11:00 am

• Group Dialgoue
  11:00 am – 12:20 pm

• Post Group Agreements, Disagreements and Questions
  12:20 pm – 12:30 pm

• Lunch Break, music in Malcolm X Plaza
  12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

• Moderator Statements, audience remains in groups
  2:00 pm – 2:15 pm

• Group Questions and Statements
  2:15 pm – 2:55 pm

• Audience re-group for final dialogue
  3:00 pm – 3:20 pm

• Groups conclude final statements
  3:20 pm – 3:30 pm

• Closing Speaker
  3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
  Kyle Macdonald (bio), Founder and CEO, Bay Area Wilderness Training

For more information:

Mike Yoshioka
Phone: (530) 277 – 5940
Email Mike