House Interim Committee On Natural Resources

• • Please Note: The Capitol Building is currently closed to the public and meetings are taking place remotely.
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    meeting. Locate the meeting date and click on the camera icon at the designated time. A viewing station will
    also be available outside on the front steps of the Capitol Building.

• Informational Meeting
  • Invited testimony only
    
    
  • Natural Resources Agency Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Curt Melcher, Director, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
    Lisa Sumption, Director, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
    Peter Daugherty, State Forester, Oregon Department of Forestry
    Doug Grafe, Fire Protection Chief, Oregon Department of Forestry
    
    
  • Adverse Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Natural Resources Industries, Organizations, and Constituencies
    
    Commercial Fishing and Processing
    Lori Steele, Executive Director, West Coast Seafood Processors Association
    Anthony Dal Ponte, General Counsel and Director of Legal and Government Affairs, Pacific Seafood
    Jeff Anderson, Secretary-Treasurer, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555
    John Corbin, Commissioner, Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission
    Dwight Collins, Chair, Oregon Salmon Commission
    
    
    Forestry and Forest Products
    Rex Storm, Executive Vice President, Associated Oregon Loggers, Inc.
    Chris McCabe, Executive Director, Northwest Pulp and Paper Association
    Greg Pallesen, President, Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers Union
    Mike Eliason, General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs, Oregon Forest and Industries Council
    
    Commerce and Transportation
    Andrea Klaas, President, Oregon Public Ports Association, and Executive Director, Port of The Dalles
    John Burns, CEO, Oregon International Port of Coos Bay
    Jana Jarvis, President, Oregon Trucking Associations
    
    Outdoor Sports and Recreation
    Matthew Drake, President and CEO, Mt. Hood Meadows, LLP
    Matt Radich, Owner, Active Water Sports
    Sam Taylor, Head Crew Coach, Lewis and Clark College, and Member, Calm Water Coalition
    Al Elkins, Lobbyist, Oregon Hunters Association
    Mark Lambrecht, Director of Government Affairs, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
    Jolene Thomson, Executive Director, Oregon RV Dealers Association
    Kristopher Elliott, Outdoor School Program Leader, OSU Extension and Friends of Outdoor School
    
    
  • Conservation and Environment
    Bob Oleson, Lobbyist, Association of Northwest Steelheaders
    Chandra Ferrari, Senior Policy Advisor and Staff Attorney, Trout Unlimited
    Jennifer Fairbrother, Conservation Director, Native Fish Society
    Bruce Polley, Board Vice President, Coastal Conservation Association
    Amelia Porterfield, Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy
    Bob Sallinger, Conservation Director, Audubon Society of Portland
    Danielle Moser, Wildlife Program Coordinator, Oregon Wild
    
    

• • Note change: presenters have been updated.