Author Description
Mary Scurlock is a senior policy analyst with Pacific Rivers Council in Portland, Oregon. Mary has extensive experience in natural resources law and policy. A native of northern Virginia, Mary is a Duke University graduate who received her law degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in 1989. After two years in private practice, specializing in land use and federal Clean Water law, Mary joined Pacific Rivers Council (then Oregon Rivers Council), in 1992. While at PRC, she has co-authored Entering the Watershed (Island Press, 1993), played a key role in PRC’s successful advocacy for appropriation of federal funds for watershed restoration under the Northwest Forest Plan, and worked for expansion of strong aquatic conservation policies to federal lands in the interior West. In recent years, Mary has focused on federal Endangered Species Act implementation through habitat conservation plans for native fishes and amphibians on industrial forestlands and the legal and policy imperatives supporting forest road remediation and removal.
