Peter Dykstra Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Pacific Nw And Gulf Coast

As part of a diverse water and natural resources law practice, I assist nonprofits, local, state, and tribal government agencies, and business entities with strategic planning, project planning, and real estate acquisitions.In addition to my law practice, I help clients with issues before Congress, the Washington State Legislature, and federal and state government agencies, working to pass federal and state legislation, secure public funding for projects, and develop collaborative public/private partnerships for large-scale, innovative solutions to natural resource challenges. I have also used my experience building collaboration among a wide variety of stakeholders to help create, facilitate, and motivate coalitions of non-traditional allies focused on long-term environmental restoration and economic sustainability.As a water lawyer, I have negotiated the earliest transactions in Washington State securing water rights for instream flow, created and implemented the first local government efforts to secure water rights for mitigation in Washington State, and led efforts to create watershed-scale climate and drought resiliency strategies through partnerships involving tribes, agriculture, local, state and federal government agencies, and the environmental community. As a conservation real lawyer and project manager, I have negotiated and closed on the purchase of over 350,000 acres and over $600 million of land for outdoor recreation and public access, habitat protection, conservation of farmland, and carbon sequestration. As a facilitator and political strategist, I have helped cultivate and lead numerous successful multi-stakeholder, collaborative efforts among historically-adverse constituents to solve complex natural resource issues involving water resources, tribal treaty rights, coastal restoration, forest health, climate resiliency, recreational access to public lands, and public land acquisition and protection.

Washington, United States

Board President, 2012 through 2014Pro-bono Legal Counsel, 2014 through 2016

Pacific Nw

Led TWS’s conservation efforts throughout Washington and Oregon. Reinvigorated North Cascades Initiative and established it as a strategic, politically-savvy, landscape-scale conservation effort. Chief architect of conservation community initiative to protect 200,000 acres of public and private forestland as critical element of Yakima Basin Integrated Plan. Provided strategic direction to TWS recreation program, including co-leading effort to establish Outdoor Access Working Group. Guided creation of forest restoration collaborative in Chelan and Okanogan Counties in partnership with county commissioners, tribes, salmon recovery groups, US Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy. Political and grasstops strategist for successful effort to secure proclamation for San Juan Islands National Monument and passage of Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act. Staff lead for Governing Council Task Force on Constituency Building.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Taught Environmental Law and Policy in College of Science and Engineering.

Washington, United States

Led TPL conservation work in Washington State, overseeing conservation transactions efforts, conservation vision work with local communities, and local and statewide government relations. With an emphasis in the Puget Sound and North Central Washington helped Washington communities -- from the urban centers to working rural lands -- save the lands they treasure. Together with its partners, TPL helped conserve over 35,000 acres and raise $100 million for conservation throughout Washington State during my tenure.

Washington, United States

Led board from establishment until merger with Trout Unlimited. Developed in collaboration with executive staff thriving river conservation and water policy organization. Led lobbying efforts that passed water banking/instream flow water rights legislation in 2009.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Taught Land Use Law to graduate students at College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Washington, United States

Led water rights transaction efforts throughout Washington State. Created first flow-triggered instream flow lease agreement with irrigation district in Washington State.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Water, land use, administrative, legislative and regulatory law.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Environmental, land use, administrative, legislative and regulatory law.

Olympia, Washington, United States

Agriculture, environmental health, and administrative law and legislative and regulatory advice.

Indiana

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Telluride, Colorado, United States

Master Of Public Affairs, Environmental Policy And Nonprofit Management

Activities and Societies: Pi Alpha Alpha Honorary Society

Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Graduated with honors; President, Environmental Law Society; Chair, Indiana Environmental Law Research Clinic

Ba, History/Environmental Studies

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Theta (History Honorary Society); Hutton Honors College Student

Certificate, Geographic Information Systems

Certificate awarded by UW Extension Program

Education record