We are pleased to share with all of you the presentations of our speakers from the June 5th Sustaining the New West Conference. Please cite these sources appropriately if you use any of the information in your work. To view the PDFs, scroll over the image and click the arrows to navigate the pages of [...]

Josiah Blackeagle Pinkham is Nez Perce or Nimiipuu. He resides on the Nez Perce Reservation in Lapwai, Idaho. His Nez Perce name is Tipyelehne Cimuuxcimux and it is commonly translated as Blackeagle. Josiah’s father, Allen Pinkham Sr., is a Nez Perce and Josiah’s mother, Shirley Mosqueda, is a Yakama. There are many figures in his [...]

Robert Liberty has 37 years of experience with the implementation, refinement, enforcement and defense of Oregon’s statewide land use planning laws.  As a staff attorney at 1000 Friends of Oregon he won Oregon Supreme Court precedents significantly strengthening the application of laws to protect, forest, range and farmland and to prevent rural sprawl, as well [...]

Devin Middlebrook was born and raised in South Lake Tahoe, California. He is the sustainability program coordinator for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. In his role, Devin leads implementation of the Lake Tahoe Sustainable Communities Program to bring climate change mitigation and adaptation to the region. Much of this work revolves around land use planning, [...]

Loren BirdRattler currently serves as the Project Manager for the development of the Blackfeet Nation's Agriculture Resource Management Plan (ARMP), a plan that will create policy in agriculture, land, conservation, holistic management practices, water resource management, as well as agriculture and livestock regulation for both the Blackfeet Tribe and the United States governments. Loren has [...]

Lain Leoniak has been working in Western water for eighteen years. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and Montana. Lain started her career as a Water Referee in the State of Colorado adjudicating water rights for the Colorado River. Lain was formerly the Water Conservation Specialist and Water Resources Manager for the City [...]

Todd Wilkinson, Writer and Founder of Mountain Journal and one of our conference speakers sat down with Future West's Director Dennis Glick for a recent interview. Dennis shared his thoughts on the Conference as well as the broader socioeconomic and environmental issues facing this region. Read more about how our work and upcoming conference will [...]

John Borrowman and his wife Lynn have been active members of the Canmore community since they first moved to the Bow Valley in 1975. They raised their three children in Canmore and are dedicated to doing what they can to foster a healthy and balanced community. Although John’s time outside of the mayor’s job is [...]

Dr. Aerin Jacob is a conservation scientist at the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y). She conducts and communicates applied research to inform conservation, natural resources management, and environment-related legislation and policy. She serves on the boards of Society for Conservation Biology North America and Tides Canada, held Liber Ero and Wilburforce Fellowships, and is [...]