The City Club of Eugene presents “Collaboration Defeats Confrontation at Malheur: Part 2.”

In January of 2016, armed occupiers from outside Oregon took over the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve in Harney County, making national news for weeks.  In the end, the collaborations processes in place in Harney County allowed the community to rally and resist the call of the occupiers to confront.  How did that happen?  What lessons can be learned to help other communities solve problems.

THIS PROGRAM IS THE CONTINUATION OF OUR TWO-PART SERIES

On September 27, we will hear Part 2 of the Malheur program, featuring some of the people who founded and guided the collaborative process in Harney County long before the occupation. They include Chad Karges of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Gary Marshall, a rancher, who were founders of the High Desert Partnership, of which Brenda Smith is the Executive Director. Dan Nichols is a rancher and has been a Harney County Commissioner. The program will take place at noon in Room 190 of the Science Building at Central Oregon Community College in Bend and be livestreamed on the City Club of Central Oregon’s Facebook page back to usual Eugene Friday Forum meeting.