Fall 2025 Events

Monday, September 29-Friday, October 3
All day Student-contributed Common Ground art will be on display
Location: Stamm in Fowler Student Center

Monday, September 29
4:30-6:00 pm Exploring Our Common Ground: Overview and Engagement Workshop
Location:  Stamm in Fowler Student Center
Join us as we launch ENVX Symposium, exploring common ground across difference among those who love the land. Enjoy refreshments, listen to an overview of the week’s Symposium events, and participate in a workshop organized alongside ENVS Program communication partners featuring their distinctive approaches to engagement across difference.  Participating organizations:

• Lewis & Clark College’s Community Dialogues

• Healthy Democracy

• Oregon Humanities
• Oregon’s Kitchen Table

Tuesday, September 30
7:00-8:30 pm Managing Changing Forests: Can We Find Common Ground?
Location: Stamm in Fowler Student Center 
Forests have changed in ways that concern us all. How can future forest management address change? Since last spring, a forest working group, including Lewis & Clark students and faculty alongside forest professionals, has been discussing and debating change in climate, wildfire, and management of public forests, focusing on the Mt. Hood National Forest. In this interactive evening panel, participants will share their experiences and outcomes. A reception will follow the discussion.  Participants include:

• Andrew Spaeth, Hood River Forest Collaborative
• Henry Moppel ’27, current LC student
• Jordan Latter, BARK
• Susan Jane Brown, Silvix Resources
• Tessa Forth ’26, current LC student
• Tom Buchele, LC Law School
• Liz Safran, ENVS Faculty
• Ella Bloch, current LC student
• Olive Girsang, current LC student

Wednesday, October 1
7:00-8:30 pm Environmental Regulations on Farms: Can We Find Common Ground?
Location: Stamm in Fowler Student Center
Environmental regulations on farms can be controversial. How might regulations best support the goals of farming today? Since last spring, a cropland agriculture group, including Lewis & Clark students, faculty, and staff alongside farm professionals, has been discussing and debating environmental regulations, focusing on recent laws restricting use of neonicotinoids in Oregon. In this interactive evening panel, participants will share their experiences and outcomes. A reception will follow the discussion. Participants include:

• Aidan O’Connor ’23, Nutrition Inside
• Elizabeth Foster, Oregon Farm Bureau
• Matt Dunbar, Young Farmers and Ranchers
• Paul Kelly ’27, current LC student
• Roy Hofer, Young Farmers and Ranchers
• Talish Barrow, Bon Appetit
• Alana Rader, ENVS Faculty
• Quincy Hare ’26, current LC student
• Annissa Rhynders, current LC student

Thursday, October 2
7:00-8:30 pm Humane Treatment of Livestock: Can We Find Common Ground?
Location: Stamm in Fowler Student Center
There is debate over humane treatment of livestock. How can livestock operations and animal activists work together on this? Since last spring, a livestock group, including Lewis & Clark students and faculty alongside livestock professionals, has been discussing and debating livestock welfare, focusing on the relevance of California’s Prop. 12, a 2018 measure intended to improve living standards for certain confined animals, to livestock treatment in Oregon. In this interactive evening panel, participants will share their experiences and outcomes. A reception will follow the discussion. Participants include:

• Bob Cain, CBarC Ranch
• Emily Battilega, Versova
• Hira Jaleel, LC Law School
• Johanna Symons, Symons Beef and Perfect Balance USA
• Kurt Fosso, LC English faculty
• Todd Koch, TMK Creamery
• Ty Yazzie, CBarC Ranch
• Jessica Kleiss, ENVS faculty
• Joaquin Sandoval ’26, current LC student
• Kindle Murray, current LC student

Friday, October 3
4:00-5:00 pm Perspectives of Labor Regulations on Farms: An Exchange
Location: Stamm in Fowler Student Center
ENVX Symposium concludes with a moderated exchange between representatives for two important agricultural organizations, the Oregon Farm Bureau and PCUN (Pineros Y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste), over farmworker living and working conditions, especially in light of recent Oregon legislation that has divided these and other organizations.  Participants:

• Cynthia Ramirez, PCUN
• Jenny Dressler, Oregon Farm Bureau
• Moderator: Leah Gilbert, Political Science faculty

5:00-6:00 pm ENVX closing reception
Location: Stamm in Fowler Student Center
Following the exchange and Q&A session, Symposium organizers and session participants will enjoy refreshments and summarize what they learned during the full week of Common Ground activities.