Jim Owens is an environmental policy and community relations specialist. For more than 27 years, he has specialized in project management, land use and environmental planning, strategic planning, public policy development, citizen involvement and intergovernmental coordination for a wide variety of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private clients.

Selected Professional Experience

• Long-range planning - National Park Service, Virgin Islands National Park; Cape Disappointment State Park, Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission.

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) project management, specializing in ski area developments - Mt. Hood, White River, Winema, Umpqua, Wallowa and Rogue River National Forests, U.S. Forest Service; Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp; Umpqua Land Exchange Project; Cascade Locks Resort and Casino.

• Natural resource planning - Oregon subbasin planning project management, Northwest Power & Conservation Council; Endangered Species Act Anadromous Fish Listing Response, Regional Wellfield Protection Program, City of Portland, Oregon; Conservation, protection and restoration (CPR) of more than 900 miles of streamside riparian resources in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.

• Project management, including agency and public involvement, for long-range transportation system needs of key state highway corridors - Oregon Department of Transportation.

• Public involvement processes - numerous cities, counties, state and federal agencies, and nonprofits.

• Strategic planning - Oregon Community Foundation; Neighborhood Partnership Fund; Metro, Portland, Oregon; Oregon Governor's Office; Medford, Oregon; Gresham, Oregon.

• Public policy development - Analysis of merger of city and county land use planning functions, Portland metropolitan area governments.

• Long-term asset management plan for state land holdings - Oregon Division of State Lands.

Honors/Community Service

• Awards - Distinguished Service Awards: Oregon Environmental Council; Aspen Ranger District, White River National Forest; Mt. Hood National Forest; Klamath Ranger District, Winema National Forest; Oregon Department of Transportation Region 1; Volunteer of the Year: National Park Service, Virgin Islands National Park.

• Boards of Directors - Oregon Environmental Council, Friends of the Willamette Greenway, Portland Saturday Market, Oregon League of Conservation Voters, Tualatin Basin Water Quality Endowment Fund, Oregon Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee.

• Other Community Service - Polk County, Oregon Planning Commission; Polk County Committee for Citizen Involvement; Oregon Forest Land Planners Advisory Committee; Salem, Oregon Urban Growth Boundary Planning Commission; Portland City Club's Committee on Land Use and Transportation; Portland Housing Advisory Committee; Multnomah County Public Safety Council; Peace Corps, Costa Rica.

In the News

January 1, 2004
"Cogan Owens Cogan:  It's all in the planning"
Daily Journal of Commerce

Contact Information

Jim Owens, Principal
Cogan Owens Cogan, LLC
813 SW Alder Street, Suite 320
Portland, OR 97205-3111
Phone: 503-225-0192  x 204
Fax: 503-225-0224
E-mail: jim.owens@coganowens.com