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COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: BOB RUPAR
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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/ . Bob spent 50 years in the irrigation business, and was President of the Walla Walla Water Alliance (WWWA). Bob discussed the history of collaborative water resource management in the Walla Walla Basin, including the development of the WWWA. He said some of the impetus was seeing how things were going in the Klamath Basin in the 1990s over Endangered Species Act lawsuits and not wan…
Directors & creators
Interviewee: Bob Rupar, Interviewer: Jennifer Huntley, Videographer: Michael Peters
Subjects
Collaborative Governance, Walla Walla Water Alliance, American Indian Tribes, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Facilitation, Mediation, Natural Resources, Public Policy, Washington State
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