24 September 2004
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Lewis
& Clark Law alumnus collects legal honor
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Portland, Oregon -
Robert Lothrop, director of policy development and litigation support
at Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, has garnered a 2004
Distinguished Environmental Law Graduate award from Portland, Ore.-based
Lewis & Clark Law School. Lothrop, a 1981 graduate, joins two
other 2004 honorees recognized for significant contributions to
natural-resource issues.
Lothrop, a 1981 alumnus of the law school, joins two other alumni
as a 2004 Distinguished Environmental Law Graduate. The award, launched
in 1995 to honor the 25th anniversary of the school’s environmental
law program, recognizes select alumni who have achieved significant
contributions to natural resources or environmental fields and hold
at least 10 years of legal-practice experience.
Lothrop’s service with CRITFC extends more than 20 years and
spans issues including international salmon-fishery management, hydroelectric-system
impacts and federal land-management practices. His published works
include the article “The Misplaced Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis
in Columbia Basin Fishery Mitigation,” which appeared in the
law school’s 1986 edition of Environmental Law journal.
He is the second CRITFC employee to gain the law school’s alumnus
award for environmental work. John Platt, special assistant to CRITFC
Executive Director Olney Patt Jr., won the honor in 2001.
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About CRITFC
The Portland-based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission is
the technical support and coordinating agency for fishery management
policies of the Columbia River Basin's four treaty tribes: the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes
and Bands of the Yakama Nation and the Nez Perce Tribe.
CRITFC, formed in 1977, employs biologists, other scientists, public
information specialists, policy analysts and administrators who work
in fisheries research and analyses, advocacy, planning and coordination,
harvest control and law enforcement. |
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