The Evergreen State College served as the site for Models for Forest Protection, a conference co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in Environmental Studies on May 10, 2003. The goal of the conference was to present and evaluate four current models for National Forest protection through a description of the models and presentations of local case studies to illustrate their use and value. Quileute tribal leader Chris E. Morganroth III served as the keynote speaker for the conference. The stories Morganroth tells are “…passed down from the elders to the children of each succeeding generation, speak of the past, of the relationship between the people, other living things, and the land, and of the personal qualities of living things that are valued today.”