2024 Cultural Resource Protection Summit

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The information below is from 2023. Please stay tuned for
2024 details as they develop!

2023 Cultural Resource Protection Summit
Thanking Our Teachers

The 2023 Cultural Resource Protection Summit marks our 16th gathering, and as we continue to consider carefully the health and safety of our Summit family and our Suquamish hosts, it will be our 2nd “hybrid” Summit, as well, with both in-person and virtual participation options. The Summit family is still hard at work fulfilling the mission we have had since the Summit’s inception: The primary goal in organizing the annual Summit has been to facilitate amongst all affected parties an open, frank discussion about the intersection between cultural resources and land use.  The Summit is designed to promote collaborative cultural resource planning as an effective means of finding resolution to issues before they escalate into emotionally-charged, divisive, and expensive stalemates or law suits.

This year, the Summit agenda includes an engaging array of cutting-edge topics that will encourage attendees to remember and thank all the Teachers who have helped us on our path to seeking innovative solutions for today’s most pressing challenges to effective cultural resource protection, thereby raising the bar on our practice. Panel discussions, lightning talks, and experiential activities will highlight useful examples of the links between CRM and responsible land use. We will also reserve time for great food and general socializing! We are working hard to ensure the 16th Annual Summit will be another valuable boost for our community and a chance to say Thank You to the Teachers who have shaped us and our work.

Please join us in-person at Suquamish, virtually on Zoom, or “hybridly” (a little of both) for two days of engaging conversation and reflection that will help you improve your technical skills while deepening your connection to why we do this work.  Then, with renewed commitment, move forward with helpful tools for collaboratively protecting and caring for our irreplaceable cultural resources.

SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS:
Keynote, panels, and lightning talks exploring critical CRM topics, including:

• Keynote by the author of and contributors to Gifted Earth: The Ethnobotany of the Quinault and Neighboring Tribes (2022)
• Cultural “significance;” Offshore wind projects; Collaborative CRM
• Policy and regulatory updates (Tribal, federal, state, and local)

Experiential opportunities for learning and socializing:

• Walk-About to Old Man House with Dennis Lewarch (THPO/Summit MC)
• 3rd Annual Summit Book Club [The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (Dakota)]
• 2nd Summit Escape Room/Zoom (first Summit Cohort back the House “wins”!)

2023 SUMMIT REGISTRATION:
2023 COVID-19 Protocols

We have reached our In-Person cap!
We have reached our In-Person cap of 150 registrants. Thank you so much for the support! Virtual registration is still an option and will remain open through Friday, May 19. Thank you, again!

Registration Deadlines:
*Early Bird for In-Person and Hybrid runs through April 24.
*Regular registration for In-Person and Hybrid runs April 25 through May 9.
*Virtual registration runs through May 19.

Refunds:
*In-Person and Hybrid will be honored through May 9 based on our catering deadlines.
*Virtual will be honored through May 19.
Thank you for your understanding and support!

Student and Retiree Rates - please email Mary Rossi for information about our special Rates.

Registration Options:

• Click HERE to register and pay by Credit Card
• Click HERE to register and pay by Check

Annual Summit Registration Contest: Each year, our event producer, the nonprofit Eppard Vision, donates one FREE Summit Registration in each of the following categories: Tribes, agencies, consultants, and students. Submissions are due April 12. The Agenda Planning Committee will review them, and the recipients (one in each category) will be notified on April 19. Good Luck!

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