Monday, August 2
8:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. Symposium
This day-long session features networking opportunities, inspiring speakers and engaging panel discussions featuring Leopold Conservation Award recipients and other national conservation leaders.
Opening speakers:
- Lynne Sherrod - Chairman, Sand County Foundation
- Jimmy Emmons - Oklahoma Leopold Conservation Award recipient
Morning Moderated Panel Discussions:
- Making Ecosystem Services Markets Part of Your Resilient Business
- Dallas May - Colorado LCA recipient
- Harry Pelle - Kentucky LCA recipient
- Terry Fankhauser - Colorado Cattlemen's Association
- George Kelly - Quantified Ventures
- Rod Snyder - Field to Market - Moderator
- Leveraging Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Opportunities on Private Land
- Jim O'Rourke - Nebraska LCA recipient
- Sarah Sortum - Nebraska LCA recipient
- Jerry Doan - North Dakota LCA recipient
- Nancy Labbe - The Nature Conservancy
- John Ferry - Utah LCA recipient
- Lance Irving - Sand County Foundation - Moderator
Lunch Speaker - Todd VanHoose, CEO of Farm Credit Council
Afternoon Moderated Panel Discussions:
- Building Income through Renewable Energy
- Chuck Coffey - Oklahoma LCA recipient
- Marcus Krembs - Enel Green Power
- Ethan Winter - American Farmland Trust
- Byron Kominek - Jack's Solar Farm
- Tim Male - Environmental Policy Innovation Center - Moderator
- Diversifying with Value-added Food and Fiber
- Rosie Burroughs - California LCA recipient
- John Koepke - Wisconsin LCA recipient
- Kay Cornelius - Panorama Meats
- Bartlett Durand - Sand County Foundation - Moderator
4:15 - 4:45 Mentor/Mentee Meeting
Participants in Sand County Foundation's Land Ethic Mentorship program will remain in the Korbel Ballroom.
5:15 Social Hour and Dinner
Speaker: University of Wisconsin Emeritus Professor Stanley Temple is an Aldo Leopold scholar and ornithologist who writes and speaks about Leopold and a land ethic.
Tuesday, August 3
8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Communications Session
A morning communications session will get you up to speed on telling your story in today’s challenging environment.
- Johnna Miller, American Farm Bureau
- Nicole Small - Kansas LCA recipient
- Janie VanWinkle - Colorado Cattlemen's Association
- Casey Langan - Sand County Foundation - Moderator
11:00 - 3:00 p.m. Ranch Tour
This guided field tour through portions of Routt County features a lunchtime visit to the Leopold Conservation Award-winning ranch of Jim and Jo Stanko, followed by a short trip to Marsha and Doc Daughenbaugh's Rocking C Bar Ranch, with scenic and conservation-related stops along the way. You'll engage with local landowners addressing pressing conservation issues.