SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS AND PUBLIC LANDS
City Council Chambers, 6136 Adobe Road
Twentynine Palms, California
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
10:00 a.m. PDT

• Official hearing transcript

OVERSIGHT FIELD HEARING ON:

• "The Impacts of Climate Change on America's National Parks"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

Jonathan B Jarvis 
Regional Director, Pacific West Region
National Park Service
Oakland, CA

Panel II

John Harja
Co-Chair
Western Governors' Association Wildlife Corridors Initiative Steering Committee
Salt Lake City, UT

Rebecca Shaw
Director of Conservation Science
The Nature Conservancy of California
San Francisco, CA

Professor Thomas W. Swetnam
Director, Tree Ring Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

John Coleman
Senior Meteorologist
KUSI
San Diego, CA

Panel III

Robert B. Keiter
Director
Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Melyssa Watson
Director
Wilderness Support Center
Durango, CO

Michael Cipra 
California Desert Program Manager
National Parks Conservation Association
Joshua Tree, CA