Western Oregon Plan Revisions

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is presently revising six Districts' Resource Management Plans as a result of a lawsuit and settlement agreement. The plans cover over 2.5 million acres of public forest lands. Daylight Decisions, working under agreement with the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, designed and is presently implementing the public outreach strategy for the Plan Revisions. From its inception the project design has been collaborative, with BLM, its cooperating agencies, and the public.

Daylight Decisions is stretching the bounds of traditional public commenting through innovative web tools. These tools are currently being tested by the public before official release of the revised Resource Management Plans and draft Environmental Impact Statement. This approach allows us to utilize the real world insight of people that are affected by the Plan Revisions to improve the web tools for the official public comment period (summer 2007). Visit the WOPR Web Forum.

Daylight Decisions Western Oregon Plan Revisions Team

Carie Fox, Team Lead

Mediator/Facilitator, Daylight Decisions Co-Founder

Carie is a former soil scientist and lawyer, she now has a private mediation and facilitation practice, Fox Mediation, based in Portland, Oregon. Carie specialize in public policy work—usually large, complex, multi-party issues. She also mediates workplace disputes. She teaches a graduate-level class at Portland State University and give workshops around the country on such topics as collaborative negotiation, humor in conflict resolution, and decision science.

Keri Green

Mediator/Facilitator

Keri’s calling found her in 1981 and since then she has been bringing her expertise in facilitation and mediation to groups far and near. Her special qualities include making visible what, without her, might perhaps never have been seen. She brings humor, calm, and a roll-up your sleeves approach to bringing people and interests together.

Jon Lange

Mediator/Facilitator

Jon a is Professor of Communication at Southern Oregon University, where he has taught and researched issues related to facilitation, mediation, conflict management and organizational communication for over 25 years. During that time, he has also consulted with hundreds of groups and organizations in both the public and private sector, assisting with facilitation and mediation, particularly in the environmental and health care arenas. Jon is on the practitioner roster of the U.S. Institute of Environmental Conflict Resolution.

Dana Lucero

User Interface Lead, Daylight Decisions Co-Founder

Dana has worked extensively with both end-users and decision support tool developers, developing a nationally recognized program for the state of Wisconsin. There she developed educational materials and conducted training on Internet tools for planning, conservation, and environmental protection. She specializes in assessing the end-user experience and crafting intuitive interfaces.

Brian Muller

Map Tools Lead

Brian is an assistant professor of planning and design at the University of Colorado, Denver. He received his BA from Yale University and MPA at the University of Texas. His research includes land use modeling, geographic information systems, agricultural/open space land preservation and regional economic development. He teaches geographic information systems, natural resources planning and management, environmental impact assessment, and planning methodologies.

Philip Murphy

Decision Tools and Web Lead, Daylight Decisions Co-Founder

Philip is the CEO of InfoHarvest, Inc. which he co-founded in November 1995. He architected, designed and provided all decision analysis algorithms for the flagship decision analysis tool, Criterium DecisionPlus. Prior to founding InfoHarvest, Philip spent seven years in systems planning and software consulting and programming in both domestic and foreign markets. His areas of technical expertise include, decision analysis, systems design and implementation, neural net systems, expert systems, database, graphical user interface design, image processing, video-based multimedia, and computer simulation.
 

Gregg Walker

Mediator/Facilitator
Greg is professor of Speech Communication, Forest Resources, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, and Applied Anthropology at Oregon State University. On campus, he teaches courses in conflict management, bargaining and negotiation, mediation, international negotiation, natural resources decision making, and argumentation. Off campus, Gregg conducts training
programs on collaborative decision making, designs collaborative public participation processes, facilitates collaborative learning community workshops about natural resource and environmental policy issues, and researches community-level collaborative governance efforts.