Saving Puget Sound: A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century
by John Lombard

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Please see the list below for past and upcoming speaking engagements and other events. Please contact the author if you would like to arrange a speaking engagement for your event or organization.

Partial support for these talks was generously provided by a grant from The Mountaineers Foundation.

View the slides for John’s “standard” talk on the book (pdf – 900 KB)

Link to web audio/video from Town Hall - John's talk begins about 5 minutes into the video]

Upcoming speaking engagements

 

Past speaking engagements 2008

May 4, 4 p.m., Woodinville, Sammamish Valley Alliance, Sammamish Valley Grange Hall, 14654 - 148th Ave NE

April 21, 12:30 p.m., Shoreline Community College, sponsored by the Environmental Club as part of its Earth Week series, 16101 Greenwood Ave N, Room 1102

April 20, 9:30 a.m., Bellevue First Congregational Church, Social Justice Committee, 752 – 108th Ave NE, Bellevue

April 12, 11 a.m., Seattle Green Festival, Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 800 Convention Place

April 1, Clinton, Lyceum Lecture Series, Whidbey Institute, 6449 Old Pietila Road

March 19, Lacey, NOAA Fisheries Habitat Conservation Division meeting

March 5, Bellingham, American Fisheries Society – North Pacific International Chapter meeting, part of symposium on “Saving the Salish Sea: Will New Programs Turn the Tide?”

January 24, 2008. Seattle CityClub panel discussion, luncheon at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1113 Sixth Avenue. The panel also included David Dicks, Executive Director, Puget Sound Partnership, and Mike Sato, Communications and Education Director, People for Puget Sound, and was moderated by Daniel Jack Chasan, Environment Writer, Crosscut.

2007

November 17, 11:30 a.m., Olympia, League of Women Voters of Thurston County, annual meeting

November 13, 7 p.m., Port Angeles, Room 125 of the Science and Technology Building at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd, sponsored by the Clallam County Department of Community Development (open to the public)

November 6, 9:15 a.m., opening plenary session of the Pacific Salmonid Recovery Conference, Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street, Northwest Rooms, sponsored by Northwest Environmental Training Center.

November 1, 7 p.m., Olympia, Association for the Protection of Hammersley, Eld, and Totten Inlets, annual meeting, Griffin School Library, 6530 - 33rd Ave. NW (open to the public)

October 20, 7 p.m., Portland State University, Science Building 1, Room 107, sponsored by Oregonians for Rationality (open to the public)

October 9, 2:30 p.m., University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Center for Human Health and Ocean Studies Fall Seminar Series, Fisheries Science Building (1122 Boat St NE), Room 108, Seattle (open to the public)

October 4, American Planning Association Conference, Washington and Oregon chapters, Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center, 1500 Broadway

September 25, Yakima, Annual Conference, Northwest Chapters of the Society for Ecological Restoration and Society for Wetland Scientists

September 16, 6 p.m., San Juan Island Library, 1010 Guard Street, Friday Harbor

September 12, 2 p.m., Dungeness River Management Team, at Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 WestHendrickson Road, Sequim

September 12, 6:30 p.m., Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Avenue, Port Hadlock

August 9, Arlington Rotary Club

August 2, 7 p.m., Tacoma, King's Books, 218 St. Helens Ave.

July 25, 5 p.m., Puyallup River Watershed Council, Sumner City Hall, City Council Chambers, 1104 Maple Street, Sumner (open to the public)

July 20, Nisqually River Council

July 11, Whidbey Camano Land Trust

June 30, National Wildlife Federation and Cascade Land Conservancy

June 28, 7 p.m., Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle

June 20, 7 p.m., Camano Center, 141 N. East Camano Drive, hosted by Friends of Camano Island Parks, Camano Community Wildlife Habitat Project

June 7, American Fisheries Society North Pacific International Conference, Tacoma

May 16, 1:45 p.m., Hood Canal Coordinating Council (open to the public), Oyster Bay Inn and Restaurant, 4412 Kitsap Way, Bremerton

May 12, 7 p.m., Port Townsend Marine Science Center, located in Fort Worden State Park,
532 Battery Way, co-sponsored by 10,000 Years Institute, Admiralty Audubon, Jefferson Land Trust, North Olympic Salmon Coalition, Northwest Watershed Institute, and Olympic Forest Coalition.

May 11, 7 p.m., Port Angeles Library (Raymond Carver Room), 2210 South Peabody Street, sponsored by Port Book & News

May 8, 7 p.m., Concrete Public Library, 45672 D St & Main, Concrete

May 1, 7 p.m., Village Books in Bellingham (Fairhaven), 1200 Eleventh Street

April 28, 6:30 p.m., Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, 17171 Bothell Way NE (Towne Centre)

April 19, 2 p.m., Skokomish-Dosewallips Watershed Planning Unit (open to the public), Hoodsport Timberland Library, 40 North Schoolhouse Hill Road, Hoodsport.

April 19, 7 p.m., Vashon Library, 17210 Vashon Hwy. S.W., Vashon Island

April 18, American Society of Civil Engineers, Seattle Section North Branch, Burlingto

April 12, 7:30 p.m., Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island

April 10, 8:30 a.m., University of Washington, Center for Water and Watershed Studies, Spring Seminar Series, 223 Anderson Hall (open to the public).

March 26, 7 p.m., University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle

March 23, 7 p.m., Skagit County Beach Watchers (talk is open to the general public), La Conner High School, 502 N. Sixth, La Conner

March 19, Seattle Aquarium board

March 14, Skagit Watershed Council, 1415 Freeway Drive (offices of Skagit PUD #1), Mt. Vernon, 10:30 a.m.

March 14, Stillaguamish Implementation Review Committee, Sylvana, 1:30 p.m.

February 23, Orca Books, 509 E. 4th Ave., Olympia, 7 p.m.

February 22, KCTS Connects interview, 7 p.m.

February 15. American Society of Foresters, South Puget Sound Chapter, Renton

February 5. 11 a.m., Camano Center, 141 NE Camano Drive, sponsored by Camano Island Beach Watchers

January 31. 7-9 p.m. North Seattle Community College, Baxter Student Events Center; sponsored by Homewaters Project

January 30. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Region 4 Habitat Program, Mill Creek

January 23. 7:30 p.m. [CLICK HERE for web audio/video - John's talk begins about 5 minutes into the video], Town Hall, Eighth and Seneca, Seattle, sponsored by Elliott Bay Book Company

January 17. 7 p.m., Scott's Bookstore, 121 Freeway Drive, Mt. Vernon. Sponsored by People for Puget Sound