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COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: MARK WAGGONER
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/ . Mark is a third generation farmer in Touche, WA. His father died in 1975 at age 32, leaving Mark in charge of the farm. He grows alfalfa, wheat, and seed peas. He is a WSU grad. His family established water rights in 1892 via John Bayer Jr’s private Gardenia irrigation company, a gravity flow from College Place 11 miles to Touche. They first began irrigating in 1905. Most of their…
Directors & creators
Interviewee: Mark Waggoner, 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, Water Rights, Walla Walla
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