Managing Environmental Organizations

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Managing Environmental Organizations

• DukeEngage Portland Oregon

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Why Environmental Organizations?

• Environmental challenges
• Climate change is not new.
• but dealing with human effects on environment is
  growing in importance

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Why management?

• Environmental organizations need good managers
• There are Duke students with these skills and
  with interest in working in non-profits

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Why Oregon?
Oregon is one of the most ecologically diverse
places in the world.
Columbia River Plateau
Willamette Valley
Blue Mountains
Cascades
Coast
Northern Basin Range
Klamath Mountains
East Cascade Foothills
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Why Oregon?

• Coast
• Diverse ecologies
• Collapsing fisheries
• Deforestation
• Rise of retirement communities
• Wave wind power generation

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Why Oregon?

• Willamette Valley
• River restoration Pollution
• Rapidly expanding wine industry
• Sprawl due to largest population centers

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Why Oregon?

• Klamath Mountains
• Largest Redwoods Old-growth forests
• Timber management struggles
• Water Flood management

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Why Oregon?

• Cascades
• Mt. Hood Volcanoes
• Glacial Melting
• Climbing Trails
• Rapid population growth
• Forest management
• Fire
• Endangered species
• Balance logging, recreation Environment

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Why Oregon?
Cascades Mt. Hood!
Todays conditions at Timberline Lodge
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Why Oregon?

• East-Cascade Foothills
• Fire management
• Dry forests with a fire-based ecology choked by
  suppression history has lead to the nations
  largest forest fires.
• Water management
• Prolonged drought
• Economic Management
• Retirement community boom.
• Loss of traditional extractive industry

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Why Oregon?

• Columbia River Gorge Plateau
• National Scenic area
• Major trade commerce route
• Salmon fishery management
• Tourism growth
• Fire Watershed

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Why Oregon?

• Columbia River Gorge Plateau
• National Scenic area
• Major trade commerce route
• Salmon fishery management
• Tourism growth
• Fire Watershed

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Why Oregon?
Columbia River Gorge Plateau
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Why Oregon?
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Why Portland?
A bustling city of about 1.5M people, in easy
reach of some of the most significant ecological
regions of the state. Center for the states
growing food, wine microbrewery cultures.
Thriving live music arts scene. A strong
culture of collaborative work between industry,
culture environment.
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Why Portland?
Home of many environmental organizations, 3
universities, major banks light industry.
Third US Circuit court is here, which has
presided over some of the nations most reaching
environmental decisions.
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Opportunities through DukeEngage

• Public policy
• Law center
• Orgs that protect ecosystems
• Particular (e.g., rivers)
• General (e.g., buy and set aside areas)
• Orgs that encourage alternative energy use
• Conservation-hunting alliance

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Opportunities through DukeEngage

• Public policy
• Organizations dedicated to political approaches
  to environmental problems.
• Key issues focus on interface with state (and
  national) legislatures, government agencies
  (forest service, Army corps of engineers, etc.)

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Opportunities through DukeEngage

• Law center
• Because of the position between the Columbia
  river and the Pacific, the 9th Circuit court is
  involved in many landmark environmental cases
• Would work with environmental law firms to help
  prepare cases and manage work schedules.

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Opportunities through DukeEngage

• Orgs that protect ecosystems
• Many organizations do hands-on work to protect
  ecosystems, ranging from cleanup to purchase.
• Particular (e.g., rivers)
• Oregons diversity results in a wide array of
  focused organizations devoted to saving rivers,
  forests, coastlines and so forth.
• General (e.g., buy and set aside areas)
• Similarly wide range of organizations devoted to
  whole-ecosystem protection.
• Work will involve issues surrounding fund
  raising, volunteer time, and so forth.

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Opportunities through DukeEngage

• Orgs that encourage alternative energy use
• Oregon is heavily involved in hydro, solar, wind
  and wave energy.
• Organizations focus on how to promote use of
  alternative energy sources and conservation.
• Work will range over education, outreach,
  volunteer coordination.

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Opportunities through DukeEngage

• Conservation-hunting / outdoorsmen alliances
• Hunters, hikers, outdoors enthusiasts are one
  of the largest environmental publics. These
  organizations find solutions to environmental
  issues that turn on cooperation between the
  various public users of outdoor space.

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Enrichment activities!
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Living in Portland
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Questions?

• Lisa Keister lkeister_at_soc.duke.edu
• Jim Moody jmoody77_at_soc.duke.edu
• Brooke Robinson er9_at_soc.duke.edu