June, 2011: Shepherd’s Crook is on an indefinite hiatus. Teri has taken a job with the Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission (SWC) in Boise.
The SWC works to facilitate the coordination of conservation planning and implementation activities by federal, state, and local governments to conserve, sustain, improve, and enhance Idaho’s soil, water, air, plant, and animal resources.
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Shepherd’s Crook’s overarching goal is to preserve and improve the quality of life in communities by helping strengthen their economy, government representation, and stewardship and enjoyment of natural resources.
Shepherd’s Crook Enterprises was named after a piece of wood – a sheep rancher’s “helper” commonly called a shepherd’s crook – that owner Teri Murrison’s father passed down to her when he and her mother sold the family ranch and retired.
Our name’s a metaphor for a consultant who seeks to be to her clients as a shepherd’s crook is to a sheep rancher: a tool that makes a hard job easier.
Services
We provide a variety of consulting services including:
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policy evaluation and creation,
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grant writing and administration,
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intergovernmental relations (local, state and federal),
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conflict resolution and mediation,
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coordination of public participation and stakeholder processes,
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meeting facilitation,
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event planning,
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public information, and
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writing, and publishing (traditional and social media).
Teri Murrison
Teri worked at a regional transportation planning agency as a public information/administrative services officer in the Central Valley from’89 – ’98. She worked on regional projects including the five-county Yosemite Area Traveller Information system, and the Yosemite Area Regional Transportation Strategy (YARTS).
She established Shepherd’s Crook in 2000 to provide grant writing and administration services to local governments including cities, counties, special districts (including the East Merced Resource Conservation Distirct), and nonprofits.
Over the last eleven years, she’s worked extensively on resource issues via serving as a member of CALFED’s Public Watershed Committee, the Department of Water Resource’s San Joaquin River Management Plan committee, the Merced Area Groundwater Pool Interest group, and participated in the establishment of the East San Joaquin Valley Water Quality Coalition.
She took a five-year hiatus from the private sector from 2005 to 2010 to run for and serve as supervisor in Tuolumne County. As a county supervisor, Teri focused on increasing government transparency and accountability, public participation, and attaining balance between natural resource and socioeconomic interests.
She was appointed by Secretary Michael Chrisman to his Statewide Watershed Advisory Committee in 2008, participated in the City and County of San Francisco’s Tuolumne River stakeholder group, the Sustainable Forest Action Coalition, the Mountain Counties Water Association, and the Tuolumne Stanislaus Integrated Regional Water Management Program (IRWMP).
Teri left office in 2010 and reactivated Shepherd’s Crook. She blogs on local, state, and national issues at www.TeriMurrison.com.
She serves on the executive board of the Marian Bergeson Excellence in Public Service Series, is a member of California Women’s Leadership Association, and was in California Agricultural Leadership’s Class XXXIV, Class 2 of the Marian Bergeson Excellence in Governance Series, and the 2010 class at the Great Valley Leadership Institute. She holds BA degrees in English and Political Science and a MA in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding from the California State University system.
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