Ryan Steen helps clients who use and develop natural resources. He represents clients in environmental litigation and assists them with navigating regulatory, permitting, and policy processes. Ryan’s clients include trade associations and individual organizations in the fisheries, oil and gas, geophysical exploration, forestry, hydroelectric power, mining, and tourism industries. His expertise covers a wide range of natural resources and environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the Clean Water Act. Ryan’s clients know him to be very responsive and focused on providing practical advice. Ryan is a former co-chair of Stoel Rives’ Energy & Natural Resources Industry Group.

Before starting his legal career, Ryan worked as a fisheries biologist for the University of Washington. In that position, he managed a large-scale salmon research program in Southwest Alaska, studied salmon habitat and ecology, and advised a commercial fishery on Bristol Bay sockeye salmon's population dynamics and run timing.

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