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COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: JOHN MCCARTHY
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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/ . John’s involvement in natural resource collaboration started when he became a Port of Tacoma Commissioner in 1983, and he spent five years negotiating the Puyallup Land Claims Settlement. After that, he was a judge for 22 years. When he retired as a Superior Court judge, and involvement in natural resource litigation, he returned to being a Port of Tacoma Commissioner. John brought…
Directors & creators
Interviewee: John McCarthy, Interviewer: Jennifer Huntley, Videographer: Michael Peters
Subjects
Collaborative Governance, Puyallup Settlement, Puyallup Land Claims Settlement, Port of Tacoma, American Indian Tribes, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Facilitation, Mediation, Natural Resources, Public Policy, Washington State
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