Stegner Symposium Brochure (2002, 7th Annual) - Powell & Stegner: Fifty Years after The Hundredth Meridian

Program, description and registration information for symposium held April 12, 2002, in the Sutherland Moot Courtroom of the College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

A symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of Wallace Stegner's seminal biography of john Wesley Powell PRINCIPAL fUNDING BY !!!'. STEGNER CENTER Powell & Stegner: Fifty Years after The Hundredth Meridian Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH KEYNOTES OPENING KEYNOT E Watershed Democracy: Recovering the Lost Vision of John Wesley Powell Visions of Western Governance: Powell & His Successors Community Based Watershed Manage-ment: Has Powell's Vision Come True? LUNCH KEYNOTE What Writing About Powell Did to Shape the Career and Beliefs of Wallace Stegner Still Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: Thoughts on Hope, Politics & Geography Reconsidering John Wesley Powell: A New Blueprint for Drylands Democracy? WALLACE Filling in the Blank Spots on Powell's and Stegner's Maps: The Role of Modern Indian Tribes in Western Resource Management AND SPEAKERS DONALD WORSTER PROFESSOR OF U .S. HISTO RY, UNIVERSITY OF KAN SAS Donald W o rster is the Joyce and Elizabeth H all Professor of U.S. Histo ry at the University of Kansas. P rofessor W o rster focuses his teaching and research o n the environmental histo ry of North America and the wo rld, the history of the A m erican West, a nd U .S. cultural and social history. His books include The Wealth of Nature, Under Western Skies, and Dust Bowl (Ban croft Prize). H is m ost recen t book is A River Running West: The Life of j ohn Weslry Powell. WILLIAM DE BUYS is a writer, reacher, and environmental consultant fro m Santa Fe, New Mexico. H is books include Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California; Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range; and River of Traps: A Village Life. His most recent book is Seeing Things Whole: The Essential john Wesley Powell, an edited collection of Powell's writings. ANN MORGAN is the Colorado State Director for the Bureau of Land Management. Ms. Morgan has led the Colorado BLM office to manage irs 8.4 million acres with a focus on community based partnerships, and has championed co-management of land and resources on a landscape level with the U.S. Forest Service. jACKSON BENSON AU T HOR Jackson Benso n is the author of the leading biographies of W allace Stegner and John Steinbeck. Building o n the success of his 1996 Stegner biography (Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work) Mr. Benson h as m ost recently autho red Down by the Lemonade Springs: Essays on Wallace Stegner, w hich provides a n in-depth study of Stegner's literary cano n as well as his numerous nonfiction works. R. McGREGGOR CAWLEY is a professor of Political Science at the University ofWyoming, where he reaches in the areas of public ad min istration, enviro nmental politics, and natural resource administration. Professor Cawley is the author of Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics, and co-edi to r of A Wolf in the Garden: The Lands Right Movement and the New Environmental Debate. DONALD SNOW is the Arnold Professor of Enviro nmental Studies and Creative Writing at Whi tman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He is also the fo unding edito r of Northern Lights Magazine, a quarterly journal of arrs, politics, and nature in the Rockies. Over the yea rs Northern Lights has become a kind of community-in-print, connecting writers, artists, and readers and allowing many beginning wri ters to publish their fi rst wo rks. Mr. Snow is a prolific author whose essays, public addresses and other writings have been widely published in magazines, journals, and anthologies. STEGNER LECTURE CHARLES WILKINSON PROFESSOR OF lAW, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Charles Wilkinson is Distinguish ed University Professor and Moses Lasky Professor of Law at the U niversity of C olorado School of Law. Co-auth or of standard law texts on federal Indian law and pub lic land law, Professor Wilkinson writes as well for popular audiences on a variety of issues relating to the American West. Included in his bibliography are Messages from Franks Landing: Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way; Fire on the Plateau: Conflict and Endurance in the American Southwest; Crossing the Next M eridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West; The Eagle Bird: Mapping A New West; and The American West: A Narrative Bibliography and a Study in Regionalism. Funding for the Wallace Stegner Lecture is provided, in part, by the Utah Humanities Council. The Utah Humanities Council promotes history and heritage, books and read ing, and public discussion of issues important to our communities. SYMPOSIUM For its seventh annual symposium, the Stegner Center will observe the fiftieth anniversary of Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by focusing on the interplay between Powell and Stegner, both of whom in their own ways and times have so signifi-cantly influenced the shape of the American West. "The West, according to Wallace Stegner, 'has not been so much settled as raided-first for its furs, then for its minerals, then for its grass, then in some places for its scenery,' and with every raid the raiders have ignored conse-quences. [john Wesley] Powell warned about those consequences, ecological and political, that persistence in old land policies must bring, and the raiders and boosters fought him as they fought reality." - DONALD W ORSTER A RiVER RUN.\'ING W EST REGISTRATION fORM Admission to the symposium requires registration and the payment of the following fees (in advance or on-site). Please check boxes that apply. Make checks payable to S.J. Quinney College of Law. D $60 if received by March 31, 2002 D $75 if received on April1, 2002 or after D $25 Student/Seniors if received by March 31, 2002 D $40 Student/Seniors if received on April1, 2002 or after CLE Credit (Utah State Bar) D $12 7 hours CLE credit I additional per person Credit may be available in other states; participants from out-ofstate must make their own CLE arrangements. $ TOTAL ENCLOSED To register, call801-585-3440, or complete this form and fax to 801 -581-6897, or mail with check to: Stegner Center Symposium • 332 S. 1400 E. Rm 101 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0730. PLEASE PRINT N AME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP+4 PHO N E fAX E-MAIL A DDRESS AFFILIATIO N STUDENT 10 # TITLE I POSITION ViSA I Me I AMEX # EXP. DATE SIGNATURE U TAH BAR# 0 I prefer a vegetarian lunch. 0 Please do not include my name/address in a published list of participants. fOR MOR E INFORMATION phone [phone] fax [phone] email stegner@law. utah. edu web www.law. utah. edulstegner -~ ~ ~ ~ STEGNER CENTER SEVENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY, APRIL 12,2002 Powell & Stegner 8:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast 9:00 Opening Keynote Donald Worster 10:00 William deBuys 10:45 Break 11:15 Ann Morgan 12:00 Lunch Utah Museum of Natural History 1:00 Lunch Keynote Jackson Benson 2:00 R. McGreggor Cawley 2:45 Donald Snow 3:30 Break 4:00 Wallace Stegner Lecture Charles Wilkinson 5:30 Reception PRINCIPAL fUNDING R. Harold Burton Foundation Chevron SPONSORS Utah Museum of Natural History S. J. & Jesse E. Quinney Foundation J. Willard Marriott Library Natural Resources Law Forum kuerFM90 PHOTO Kritb lf.mho/onuw GRAPHIC PRODUCTION Umgn Corp.< PRINTED on re.ydt'd pttper with agrimltuml-based iukJ· Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment S.j. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF lAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH 3 32 S . 1400 E. RM 101, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84112-0730 Fifty Years after The Hundredth Meridian Almost a century and a half ago, John Wesley Powell became a national hero for being the first European-American to navigate the Colorado River through the canyons of the American Southwest. His journey marked a "second opening" of the West and signaled the beginning of Western settlement patterns that continue to the present day. Powell's strong affinity for the West inspired a new awareness of the continent's limitations and the need to conserve its resources. Historian Donald Worster observes: Powell's story is .. . one of Americans confronting and learning to live with the land they came to possess. He knew as well as anyone the Colorado Plateau and its great chasm, as he knew the arid West, but he also knew much of eastern America-together, a land as physically impressive as any on earth. He became a founder of the national movement to conserve that land, to adjust settlement and economic use to its limitations, and (more muted) to preserve its beauty and diversity for foture generations. Fifty years ago, Wallace Stegner chronicled Powell's life in Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: john Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Stegner's book, one of the first biographies of Powell, earned its author international acclaim. Referring to Hundredth Meridian as "the greatest book ever written about the West," law professor and author Charles Wilkinson writes: Wallace Stegner showed [in Hundredth Meridian} that the mountain men, the hardrock miners, and other early explorers were just the first era in the settlement of the region by non-Indians. They conquered the barrier of distance and, in the nation's eye, made the western half of the continent accessible. Then their government obtained most of the land from Indian tribes and foreign nations. The second era, of which Stegner wrote, involved the populating of the lands beyond the barrier of the dry line. For its seventh annual symposium, the Stegner Center will observe this book's fiftieth anniversary by focusing on the interplay between these two extraordinary individuals, both of whom in their own ways and times have so significantly influenced the shape of the American West. NoN-PROFIT 0RG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID S L C, UT PERMIT No. 1529