Hershner Hunter, LLP, EugeneMr. Gelardi is an attorney with Hershner Hunter, LLP. His work focuses on agribusiness, land use and natural resources law. Mr. Gelardi advises business throughout Oregon and Washington on real estate transactions and land development issues, including water rights and environmental matters. He has helped shape Oregon land use law regarding commercial activities on farm and forest lands, and he resolves disputes between landowners. Mr. Gelardi is a graduate of Macalester College and the University of Washington School of Law. He has been named an “Oregon Rising Star” by Thomson Reuters and an “Up and Coming Lawyer” in Oregon by the Daily Journal of Commerce.

Ms. Liljefelt is a partner and the managing attorney at Schroeder Law Offices’ Portland, Oregon office. She joined Schroeder Law Offices in 2009 and graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School with an Environmental & Natural Resources certificate. Ms. Liljefelt represents water users in the West, focusing her practice on water rights review, evaluation, due diligence, permitting, transfer, forfeiture and cancellation, water-related real property and public lands issues and disputes, administrative contested cases, and state and federal litigation. She is licensed to practice law in Oregon, California, and Utah. Ms. Liljefelt is the chair of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association’s Water Resources Committee, the former chair of the Oregon State Bar’s Environmental & Natural Resources Section’s executive committee, and serves on the Bar’s Agricultural Law Section executive committee. She enjoys cooking, kayaking, and camping with her family, and competitively races outrigger canoes with the Mountain Home Canoe Club.

Ecology and Environment, Inc., PortlandMr. Mazer is a professional wetland scientist (PWS) with over 20 years of experience evaluating and managing aquatic resources for both public and private clients. A seasoned field scientist, he has conducted innumerable wetland delineations, functions assessments, and stream surveys, as well as other ecological evaluations including rare plant surveys, avian surveys, and watershed assessments. Mr. Mazer is well versed in wetland and stream habitat improvement. Prior to joining E&E, he was a regulatory project manager for the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers, Regulatory Division, where he managed dozens of Clean Water Act Section 404 permits, planned and designed several wetland and stream rehabilitation projects, and annually taught a delineation/jurisdictional determination class specific to Alaska.

WHPacific, Inc., PortlandMr. Quarterman has 39 years of experience in natural resource planning and management with special emphasis on wetland science. With an education background in land use planning and environmental science, he has created a career focusing on wetlands, with a special interest in estuarine systems and wetland plant communities. Mr. Quartermanhas performed over 110 delineations in the western United States and Alaska, including preparation of reports andsubmittal for concurrence on a variety of sites up to 4,800 acres. He has prepared joint federal/state wetland permit applications, and obtained permits for over 70 projects (energy, transportation, commercial) of different scales.Mr. Quarterman has performed wetland functional assessments using a variety of methodologies on 12 projects. He also worked with the Oregon DSL as part of a team developing the Oregon HGM (hydrogeomorphic) wetland functional assessment methodology. Mr. Quarterman has prepared 44 wetland mitigation plans, 39 of which were implemented and 22 of which were monitored throughout construction. He has managed multiple resource inventory projects, rare plant surveys, complex vegetation mapping, and remote field studies in a variety of ecosystems.