COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: BILL WILKERSON

About this film

The Collaborative Leadership Project (a project of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Waters, CUW/Puget Sound Institute, PSI) has conducted and filmed oral history interviews with conveners, sponsors, participants, and practitioners from landmark natural resource collaborations conducted in the state of Washington (WA) since the mid-1970s. The goal of the Project is to capture and document as much insight and as many recollections as possible, before anything else is lost to retirements, fading memories, and other losses; and to archive these digitized oral histories. The original copies are housed in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. More information on the Project is available at https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/collaboration/collaborative-leadership-project/ . In the 1980s, Bill was both the Deputy Director and then Director of the Washington State Department of Fisheries. He later served as Executive Director of the Washington Forest Protection Association. Bill reflects on the history of salmon co-management including the tumultuous period of litigation, protests, and enforcement actions prior to Judge Boldt's ruling, which affirmed tr…

Directors & creators

Interviewee: Bill Wilkerson, Interviewer: Jennifer Huntley, Videographer: Michael Peters

Subjects

Collaborative Governance, American Indian Tribes, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Facilitation, Mediation, Natural Resources, Public Policy, Washington State, salmon co-management, Boldt decision, US/Canada fishing treaty, Timber/Fish/Wildlife Agreement

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