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1988
First Summer Gathering - Western Writers/Eastern Publishing
Presenters: Jim Anderson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Julian Bach, Craig Lesley, Naomi Bliven, Kim Stafford, Jim Hepworth, George Venn, Marc Jaffe, James Welch, Alvin Josephy, Lois Welch, Charles Deemer, William Kittredge, Naomi Nye, Peter Sears, Terry Tempest Williams

1989
Summer Gathering - Sense of Place/Landscape as Character
Presenters: Mary Evans, Ursula Hegi, Jim Hepworth, David Long, Marc Jaffe, Alvin Josephy, Craig Lesley, Herb Mitgang, Kim Stafford, Jonathan Nicholas, James Welch, William Stafford, Lois Welch, Sue Armitage, Charles Deemer

1990
Summer Gathering & Workshops - Patterns
Presenters: Annick Smith, Bill Kittredge, George Venn, David Milholland, Kim Stafford, Terry Tempest. Williams, Liz Woody, David Axelrod, Ursula LeGuin, Lawson Inada, Ursula Hegi, Jonathan Nicholas, Molly Gloss, John Rember, Robert Johnson, Alvin Josephy, Sue Armitage, David Memmot, Laurie Mercier, Sandy Gullikson

1991
Summer Gathering & Workshops - Writing and History
Presenters: Sue Armitage, Primus St. John, Ursula LeGuin, Shannon Applegate, John Rember, Charles LeGuin, Rosalie Sorrels, Patricia Limerick, Jim Heynen, Erasmo Gamboa, Jim Hepworth, Alvin Josephy, Craig Lesley, Thomas King, Teresa Jordan, Ann Close, Sandy Gullikson, Gary Fisketjon, Jodi Varon, Lawrence Johnson Fishtrap Fellows: Ellen Bishop, Kari Sharp Hill, Phil Mahaffey, Robert Stubblefield, Michael Buck

1992
First Winter Fishtrap - Writing About the Natural World
Presenters: Kim Stafford Terry Tempest Williams Charles Wilkinson Summer

Gathering & Workshops - Language, Politics & Place
Presenters: Valerie Miner, Primus St. John, Alan Siporin, Sallie Tisdale, Kim Stafford, Anne Taylor Fleming, Ed Marston. Rosalie Sorrels, Marc Jaffe, Daniel Kemmis, Jim Hepworth, Jack Ohman, Alvin Josephy, Alex Kuo, Channa Taub Fishtrap Fellows: Barbara Dills, Eva Hunter, Vivian McInerny, Kathleen Tyau, Teri Zipf

1993
Winter Fishtrap - At the Corner: Writing about Culture and Agriculture
Presenters: Hal Cannon & Teresa Jordan Ed & Betsy Marston

Summer Gathering & Workshops - Imagining a Future: Community in the New West
 Presenters: Sherman Alexie, Tim Egan, Ben Saenz, Linda Hogan, Bruce Forster, Jim Heynen, Marc Jaffe, David J. Duncan, Mary Clearman Blew, J.T. Stewart
Fishtrap Fellows: William Johnson, Bill Joseph, David Koehn, Laura Lee Newman, Lola Ready

1994
Winter Fishtrap - Recreation and the West: Writing About the New Western Economy
 Presenters: John Rember, Jeanne Thomas, Emily Swanson, Angus Theurmer, Jr.

Summer Gathering and Workshops - The Restless West: WWII & After
Presenters: Ivan Doig, Valerie Miner, Kim Stafford, Alvin Josephy, Richard Garcia, Harold Johnson, Gary Holthaus, Gino Sky, Bruce Forster, Jeanne Houston, Sandra Scofield, Richard White, Vivian Mc Inerny
Fishtrap Fellows: Bette Husted, Brenda Jaeger, Kate Joost, Evelyn Sharenov, Kelly Sievers

1995
Winter Fishtrap - Violence
Presenters: Richard M. Brown Mikal Gilmore Patricia McConnel Daniel Santos

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Orphaned in Eden: The Search for Family in the West
Presenters: Ben Saenz, Stephanie Coontz, Noami Nye, Alvin Josephy, Craig Lesley, Judith Barrington, Hal Cannon, Teresa Jordan, George Venn, Lizzie Grossman, Marc Jaffe
Fishtrap Fellows: Molly Cook, Leigh Hancock, Cathy Jontos-Putnam, Linda Leslie, Colleen Birch Maile

1996
Winter Fishtrap - Fire
Presenters: Stephen J. Pyne, Clay Morgan, Sid Goodloe

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Eros and Nature
Presenters: Bob Pyle, Gary Nabhan, Jim Hepworth, Greg Keeler, Sandi Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Liz Grossman, Kathleen Tyau, Pattiann Rogers, Gary Holthaus
Fishtrap Fellows: Charles Goodrich, David Halpern, David Reimer, Rachel Hoffman, Leslie Ovard

1997
Winter Fishtrap - Loss
Presenters: John Daniel, Linda Hasselstrom, Linda Hogan, Brenda Peterson

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Circling Back
Presenters: Gloria Bird, Carla Higheagle, Elise Paschen, Alvin Josephy, Mark Trahant, Angel McFarland, Kim Stafford, Horace Axtell, Sandy Osawa, Janet Campbell Hale, Marc Jaffe, Ann McCormack
Fishtrap Fellows: Toni Kennedy, Pam Steele, Eric Ottem, Ellie Mathews, Lisa Norris

1998
Winter Fishtrap - Water
Presenters: Ken Casavant Kathleen Dean Moore George Sibley

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Work
Presenters: Clem Starck, Linda Hussa, Luis Urrea, Valerie Miner, Ellen Ullman, Maynard Lavadour, Dorriane Laux, Stephanie Coontz, Alvin Josephy
Fishtrap Fellows: Maurine Barnett, Scott Sadil, Ellen Waterston, Geri Digiorno, Pat Cason

1999
Winter Fishtrap - Growing Up
Presenters: Jim Heynen Joanna Rose Mike Males

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Borders
Presenters: Marv Ross, Primus St. John, Craig Lesley, Diane Higgins, Sue Armitage, Diana Abu-Jaber, Richard Garcia, Maryilyn Bowering
Fishtrap Fellows: John Sangster, Vicente Guzman-Orozco, Jennifer Kocher, Suzanne Burns, Eileen Thiel

2000
Winter Fishtrap - Living and Writing On the Edge
Presenters: Jon Turk, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Mike Tidwell
Summer Gathering and Workshops - West of Where
Presenters: Craig Carothers, Molly Gloss, Beth Hadas, Pramila Jayapal, Kim Stafford, Ursula K LeGuin, Jarold Ramsey, Luis Alberto Urrea
Fishtrap Fellows: Mary Tanguay Webb, Burky Achilles, Ann Nelson, Geronimo Tagatac, Kamala Bremer

2001
Winter Fishtrap - Humor
Presenters: Karen Karbo, James R. Spencer, Tim Sandlin

Summer Gathering and Workshops - The Legacy of Vietnam
Presenters:Pauline Laurent, Xuan Ngoc Nguyen , David Schmitz , Geronimo Tagatac, Laurie Lewis, Andrew X. Pham, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa , Michael Wiegers
Fishtrap Fellows: Kurt Caswell, M.E. Hope, Marily Johnston, Steven Krolak, Ann Selby

2002
Winter Fishtrap - Downwind, Downriver
Presenters: John Findlay, Teri Hein, Jaime A. Pinkham

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Writing in Troubled Times
Presenters: Diana Abu-Jaber, Annie Callan, Debra Magpie Earling, Pramila Jayapal, William Kittredge, Annick Smith, Otis Taylor
Fishtrap Fellows: Patsy Kullberg, Marj Casswell, Dean Metcalf, Merna Ann Hect, David Drury

2003
Winter Fishtrap - Eating Locally, Thinking Globally
Presenters: Leif Christoffersen, Greg Higgins, Gary Paul Nabhan & Diane Josephy Peavy

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Longing and Belonging in the West
Presenters: Horace Axtell, Nyewusi Askari, Kathleen Alcalá, Howard Berkes, Jack Ohman, John Rember, Peter Sears, Geronimo Tagatac, Kate Power & Steve Einhorn
Fishtrap Fellows:Kristen Wares, John Moreland, Doug Miller, Jennifer Glick, Wayne Harrison

2004
Winter Fishtrap - Foregiveness and the Unforgivable
Presenters: Kim Stafford, David Kinzie, Asfar Hossain, Migael Scherer Summer

Gathering and Workshops - Longing and Belonging in the West
Presenters: John Daniel, Debra Magpie Earling, Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Dean Moore, John Rember, Luis Urrea, Rosalie Sorrels, Frank X Walker, Jack Shoemaker
Fishtrap Fellows: Abigail Keller, Coy King, Eden Kruger, Dick Cass, and Joe Wilkins

2005
Winter Fishtrap - The Tender Age: Remembering Childhood and Nurturing Children Presenters: Brian Doyle, Tina Kotek , Craig Lesley, Carina Miller & Ellen Waterston

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Roots
Presenters: John Daniel, Albert Andrews Redstar, Pete Fromm, Valerie Miner, Kathleen Dean Moore, Heidi Muller, Jane Vandenburgh, Frank X Walker, Jack Shoemaker
Fishtrap Fellows: Kelly Magee, Michael Schiavone, Jeff Stautz; Michael FitzGerald, Deborah Bernhardt

2006
Winter Fishtrap - New Wealth in the Old West
Presenters: Donald Snow, Laura Pritchett, Nils Christoffersen, Sara Michael

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Becoming Native to Place
Presenters: Aimee Phan, Judith Barrington, Don Snow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Susan Power, Kate Power & Steve Einhorn, Pramila Jayapal, Jim Hepworth, Debra Magpie Earling
Fishtrap Fellows: Kristine Anderson, Tom Boswell, Robert Drummond, Eric Shaffer, Gail Wells

2007
Winter Fishtrap - Crossing The Great Divides: Civil Conversation in the West
Presenters: Howard Berkes, Bill Bishop, David Romtvedt

Summer Gathering and Workshops - The River Still Flows
Presenters: Molly Gloss, Kim Stafford, Peter Sears, Jane Vandenburgh, Lisa Aschmann, John Rember, Robert Pyle, Jack Shoemaker, Maynard White Owl Lavadour
Fishtrap Fellows: Wendy Call, Henrietta Goodman, Natalie Serber

2008
Winter Fishtrap - Living Right: Empathy, Charity and Responsibility
Debra Dean, Michael Rohd, Sisters of the Road

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Speaking Truth
Presenters: Roberta lavadour, Amy Klauke Minato, Robin Cody, Brenda Miller, Peter Chilson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Marv Ross, Jane Vandenburgh, Anita Helle, Peter Sears, Paulann Petersen
Fellows: Judith Groudine Finkel, Lorraine Healy, Beverly Akerman, Anna Ross,Jennifer D. Munro

2009
Winter Fishtrap - Re-Imagining the Wild
Kathleen Dean Moore, Roderick Nash, Jack Turner

Summer Gathering and Workshops - Usual and Accustomed Places
Presenters: Jack Shoemaker, Kim Stafford, Ed Skoog, Linda Waterfall, Roberta Lavadour, Debra Gwartney, Robert Stubblefield, Kirsten Rian
Fellows: Rebecca Yarrow, Jonathan Harnum, Kelly Luce, Jay Schroder, Ceiridwen Terrill