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Employees
Guido Rahr, President & Chief Executive
Mr. Rahr earned a Masters of Environmental Studies from Yale University and has 22 years of experience developing programs for regional and international conservation organizations. Before coming to the Wild Salmon Center in 1998, Mr. Rahr was the Associate Director of Oregon Trout, where his work won the President's Fisheries Conservation Award from the American Fisheries Society.
Mr. Rahr has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme where he led the development of the Kamchatka Salmon Conservation and Sustainable Use Project, and the Rainforest Alliance where he worked on Amazon fish conservation projects. From 1985 to 1990 Mr. Rahr worked with the Nature Conservancy and later Conservation International as a Programme Officer working to establish and support protected areas in the Mexican tropics.
Mr. Rahr is a member of World Conservation Union (IUCN) Salmon Specialist Group.
Email: grahr@wildsalmoncenter.org
Jeffrey Baumgartner, Ph.D., Executive Vice President
Jeff joined the Wild Salmon Center in May 2008 as the Executive Vice President. He brings 20 years of experience in outcome-based conservation management to the position of Executive Vice President. For the past 17 years, Jeff has been a leader in the development and application of The Nature Conservancy's conservation approach, especially conservation action planning and conservation measures of success. Prior to working for The Nature Conservancy, he worked on environmentally compatible public water supply projects in Florida. Jeff received his B.A. in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles, his doctorate in evolutionary biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and did postgraduate work in behavioral ecology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Greg Block, J.D., VP Conservation Finance and External Affairs
Mr. Block joined the Wild Salmon Center in September 2004. In his former position as the Director of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation based in Montreal, Canada, Mr. Block managed a staff of 20 senior managers working in the areas of international conservation of biodiversity; trade and environment; pollutants and health; and law and policy. He has led interdisciplinary teams on regional conservation initiatives in North America, and chaired several senior advisory groups. As a result of his international environmental work, he brings strong relationships with North American non-governmental organizations, government officials and universities. Mr. Block also served as the 2002-2004 Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, and taught environmental law in Mexico under the auspices of a Fulbright Lecture Grant.
Email: gblock@wildsalmoncenter.org
Lori Alexander, Graphics and Marketing Coordinator
Lori has ten years of experience working in design and marketing. From print production and illustration to marketing strategy and design, she has all aspects of brand communication covered and has helped diverse clients tell their story. Consistently striving to find a balance between her two passions - science and art -- Lori has both a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Virginia (with an emphasis in Psychobiology) and an AA in Visual Communications Technology from SCC in Seattle. The northwest has been her since 1995 and while she takes every opportunity she can to travel and see the world, she enjoys the multitude of yoga, dancing, music, hiking and outdoor activities Portland provides.
Lucy Bernard, Director of Grant Programs
For the past several years, Lucy has specialized in non-profit development, securing foundation, corporate and government support for community-based organizations. Lucy is an experienced collaborator, having developed several multi-agency collaborative projects and facilitated the founding of a national coalition of immigrant worker organizations. She has a B.S. in Biology from Cornell University and eight years of experience in biological research and data management.
Tatiana Boyle, Russian Conservation Program Manager
Tatiana is a native of Russia. She did her doctoral research on rare and endangered plant species in the Russian Far East. She specialized in international ecosystems conservation, environmental mitigation, and use of GIS tools in species monitoring. Tatiana has taken part in 20 exploratory expeditions in Siberia, Far East Asia and Alaska and in the late 1990s hosted a weekly television show on wildlife. Throughout the 2000s, she managed and coordinated peer-reviews evaluating the potential environmental impacts of deepening the Columbia River channel, analyzing land use decisions in watersheds of Colorado and examining multidisciplinary research programs with a focus on coastal ecosystems of the U.S. West regions. In her free time, Tatiana can be spotted skiing mountain slopes with her family wherever there is snow.
Email: tboyle@wildsalmoncenter.org
Tyler Bradford, IT Manager
Tyler received his BA in Religious Studies from Connecticut College in 2000. He then immediately realized that there was no such thing as a "college cafeteria" in the real world, and began to worry. Luckily, Tyler was able to parlay a misspent childhood of basking in the green glow of a DOS prompt and hard drives the size of a Hummer into a career in IT. In addition to his role as IT Manager for Wild Salmon Center, he is the sole proprietor of Old Town Computers, a computer repair and retail shop. Tyler considers his two greatest technical achievements discovering an undocumented bug in WSC's Exchange mail server, and resurrecting a dead XBOX 360 using tinfoil and a $20 paint stripping heat gun from Home Depot. He is blissfully married to his lovely wife, Beth, and complains a lot about his two dogs, Biscuit and Bear, but still loves 'em.
Email: tyler@wildsalmoncenter.org
Brian Caouette, Director of Sustainable Fisheries & Markets
Brian joined Wild Salmon Center in 2004 and currently serves as Senior Program Manager for the Sustainable Fisheries Program. He is responsible for program leadership, strategy development, and coordination with partners. Brian received his MA in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a BA from Boston University. Formerly, Brian has worked with a variety of non-profit organizations including Pacific Environment and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, as well as lived and worked full time at two overseas nature parks: Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use in the Russian Far East and the Animal Refuge Kansai in the hills above Osaka, Japan. Brian was a David L Boren Graduate Fellow in 2002 and was also awarded a US State Department Diplomacy Fellowship.
Nelea Covaliova, Accounting Clerk
Nelea (Nelly) is a native Russian, who was born in Uzbekistan and raised in Moldova. She came to the United States as a student in 2005 after completing her freshman year at Far Eastern State University of Humanities in Khabarovsk, Russia. She worked for the Wild Salmon Center Kamchatka Program in 2007 and 2008 while attending Portland State University and received a degree in Communications and now serves as Accounting Clerk. Nelly's broad range of interests includes: art, yoga, cooking, and an unbelievable fascination with medieval European history.
Heather Doherty, Development Associate
Heather joined the Wild Salmon Center in June 2008. She has held previous fundraising positions with the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, NM and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, CA. She obtained her BA in Painting from Fairhaven College in Bellingham, WA and a MS in Arts Management from the University of Oregon. When not in the office, she enjoys working on her own creative projects, visiting museums, reading, and hiking with her dog Bosco.
Devona Ensmenger, Washington Programs Coordinator, Port Angeles, Washington
An outdoorswoman native to the Pacific Northwest, Ms. Ensmenger joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2006. Ms. Ensmenger is disciplined in physical geography, biology, and environmental science from Central Washington University, where she conducted international cross-discipline research in China (Beijing) as a NCUR/Lancy scholar and in Indonesia (Bali and Borneo) as a Brooks-Shaw scholar. Ms. Ensmenger has researched and engaged in recovery efforts on river systems in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, focusing on threatened and endangered species such as spring Chinook salmon and bull trout. Most recently, she served on the Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project analyzing hatchery and wild salmonid interactions utilizing a suite of ecological indicators. Currently, Ms. Ensmenger is engaging Olympic Peninsula stakeholders on a conservation agenda to spark collaborative stewardship and support for the protection of the most biologically diverse and intact salmon watersheds in Washington.
Randy Ericksen, Salmon Management Specialist
Randy brings over 25 years of experience working in the areas of salmon stock assessment, monitoring, escapement goal evaluation and run forecasting. He worked for Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Sport Fish Division in its Southeast Region gaining strong, applied experience -- finishing his tenure at ADFG with oversight for management and research activities in the Haines/Skagway area. More recently, Randy worked for an Oregon consulting firm as a senior fisheries scientist where he evaluated salmon habitat and habitat development projects, including using salmon life cycle analysis in the Klamath River basin to assess water diversion activities on listed coho salmon. Randy's work with the Wild Salmon Center provides scientific and technical support to develop new salmon conservation policies and management practices around the Pacific Rim.
David Finkel, Director of Development and Communications
David Finkel has over twelve years of experience in the fields of conservation, business development, and communications and marketing. Before coming to the Wild Salmon Center, David worked for other environmental NGOs in programmatic, fundraising, and communications roles, worked in San Francisco's business sector, and spent time as a freelance writer and as a wilderness guide in the Rocky Mountains, Alaska, and the Yukon Territory, Canada. David holds a Bachelor's Degree from Colgate University and a Masters of Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College. A native of the Pacific Northwest, David lives in Portland and enjoys backpacking, photography, and fly fishing.
Email: dfinkel@wildsalmoncenter.org
Laurele Fulkerson, Government Affairs Program Manager
Laurele joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2007, bringing a legal background and extensive experience in environmental advocacy, policy work, and government relations to the organization. She manages Wild Salmon Center's federal legislative efforts, focusing primarily on increasing U.S. government support and funding for the implementation of salmon stronghold conservation strategies in the U.S. and Russia. Before joining the Wild Salmon Center, Laurele was the Northwest Regional Director for the Alaska Coalition, where she worked to raise the visibility of threats to Alaskan public lands and advocate for their conservation through congressional outreach, coalition-building, grassroots organizing, and media relations. Prior to that, she helped protect important aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the Southwest while working for Wild Earth Guardians. She holds a J.D. and Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources from Lewis & Clark Law School, and a B.A. in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations from UC Santa Barbara.
Anya Gabis, Director of Finance and Administration
Anna joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2004 as a corporate controller. Originally from Nakhodka, Russia, Anna Gabis worked for over six years as the Deputy Chief Accountant at Primorsky Zavod, Russia - a leader in the Russian ship repair industry. She holds a master's degree in engineering from Siberian Metallurgical Institute in Novokuznetsk and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Portland State University. When not working at the WSC, Anya enjoys traveling throughout the Pacific Northwest and Europe with her family, eating her husband's gourmet cooking and homemade ice cream, and spending time with her friends in the Portland area.
Email: agabis@wildsalmoncenter.org
Yuliya Klichkova, Russian Program Assistant
Yuliya Klichkova is a Kamchatka native and currently serves as the Russia program assistant for the Wild Salmon Center. Yuliya's expertise is in human relations particularly through her role as a translator, interpreter, and project coordinator. During the summers of 2007- 2008 Yuliya worked on a project for the National Geographic Society, which resulted in the published article titled "Kamchatka salmon: Where salmon rule." Previously, Yuliya worked for five years on fly fishing camps in Kamchatka. Yuliya graduated from Kamchatka State University with a degree in English as Second Language (ESL) and Interpreting.Yuliya grew up eating, fishing, and enjoying the benefits of wild salmon ecosystems. In her spare time she is an orchid addict who loves to cook, garden and dance.
Julie Kuchepatov, Sustainable Fisheries & Markets Coordinator
Julie was raised in Portland and stayed close to home receiving her bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages (Russian and French) from Lewis and Clark College and recently earned her MA in communications at Portland State University. She worked for 12 years as part of a team running one of the most successful sport fishing lodges in Russia. This position allowed her to gain valuable tundra experience and fine-tune her Russian language skills. Her role at Wild Salmon Center focuses on sustainable fisheries work on Sakhalin and putting her logistical and communications skills to work in support of the Sakhalin Salmon Initiative. Her extracurricular activities are dedicated solely to her two fabulous daughters, except when she is wine-tasting with her husband.
Rich Lincoln, State of the Salmon Director
Rich has 33 years of varied experience in fisheries research, management, and policy in the Pacific Northwest as well as working on global fisheries sustainability. A graduate of the University of Michigan, a central focus of his career has been promoting the use of best available science in sound resource management decision-making. Prior to joining the Wild Salmon Center Rich was International Policy Director with the Marine Stewardship Council in London, UK. Other past roles have included bi-lateral chair of the Pacific Salmon Commission's Fraser Panel under the U.S.-Canada Salmon Treaty, leading development of Washington State's Wild Salmonid Policy and Wild Stock Initiative, and developing cooperative management arrangements with Northwest treaty Indian tribes. Rich has a strong history of involvement and leadership in salmonid research program's including hatchery supplementation, freshwater productivity evaluation, and development and application of salmonid stock identification techniques to improved fishery management. Rich's diverse skills and experiences collaborating with salmon researchers, policy makers, and managers around the Pacific Rim create a great fit for leading the State of the Salmon Program.
Sarah Lonigro, Executive Assistant
Sarah joined the Wild Salmon Center in February, 2008. Prior to the Wild Salmon Center, she worked with Open Source Development Lab and Intel. Sarah brings over twelve years of professional experience to the Salmon Center. She holds a B.A. from the University of Montana in French Language and Literature with an emphasis in International Studies. Sarah has traveled extensively and spent two years in France living in Burgundy as an exchange student. Originally from the Northwest, in her free time, she enjoys the outdoors and is an avid traveler and reader.
Tom Miewald, Conservation Planner
For the past 15 years, the focus of Toms work and education has been the integration of landscape ecology, ecological modeling, and conservation planning. Tom's experience includes modeling of ecological systems for the Pacific Northwest GAP project, agroforestry in Africa, starting a conservation GIS facility in Cameroon, and developing tools for watershed organizations in Appalachia. Currently Tom focuses on collaborating with organizations to develop meaningful scientific information for salmon conservation at multiple scales. Being a Geographer, Tom believes in the power of integrating concepts from multiple disciplines to address watershed and salmon conservation issues. Tom has a Masters in Geography and a Bachelors in Environmental Studies.
Daniel Nelson, Program Associate, Western Pacific Programs
Dan grew up in the Portland area, often accompanying his father on fishing trips throughout Oregon. He joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2008 after a two-year Peace Corps service in Kazakhstan, where he was an English instructor and teacher trainer. Dan assists with communications and educational programs at WSC, and he regularly participates in projects with the Johnson Creek Watershed Council and The Freshwater Trust. He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Anthropology and International Studies from Oregon State University. Dan speaks Russian and Japanese.
Email: dnelson@wildsalmoncenter.org
Jay Nicholas, North America Salmon Stronghold Partnership Program Manager
Jay Nicholas brings 30 years of distinguished experience as a fisheries biologist to the Wild Salmon Center, where he manages the North American Salmon Stronghold Partnership Program. Jay's work as a fisheries scientist within Oregon agencies included the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Governor's Office, and the Watershed Enhancement Board. His fisheries expertise is founded on a technical and intuitive understanding of wild Pacific salmon and historical management paradigms. Jay's fisheries policy work included leading a team of scientists and stakeholders who produced the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds.
Jay dreams of wild salmon and healthy rivers. His passion for fish and family inspires his dedication to protecting the best remaining North American ecosystems, salmon, and our children's future. And by the way, he is a well-seasoned fly tyer and fly fisher.
Jennifer Niemeck, Office and Volunteer Coordinator
Jennifer Niemeck is originally from Washington D.C. and has lived and traveled in many colorful places. After attaining a B.A. in Philosophy at U.C. Berkeley, she spent seven years in Brazil. Thereafter, she moved to Oregon where she has lived for the past six years. "For a city, Portland is incredibly livable," says the mother of two.
Jennifer brings to the Wild Salmon Center a true appreciation of conservation and protection of ecosystems. She spent the last four years as a personal assistant to a board member of several non-profits, an international attorney, and most recently as an Executive Assistant. She offers a variety of skills that support the day to day well-being of the Wild Salmon Center. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, culinary arts, and hot springs.
Peter Rand, Ph.D., State of the Salmon Senior Conservation Biologist
Peter Rand has more than sixteen years of experience in basic and applied aquatic ecology, with a focus on fisheries science, management, and conservation. Peter is a graduate of Colgate University and received his master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Peter was a postdoc at the University of British Columbia from 1995-1997 and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at NC State University from 1997-2003. Peter has authored 16 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and numerous other publications. Since his master's thesis, Peter's research has focused on Pacific salmonids in collaborative work with scientists in the Laurentian Great Lakes region, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska. In recent years he has broadened his research program to include studies of tropical and subtropical fisheries. Peter has expertise in modeling and statistical analyses, and has been involved in the development and application of field sampling equipment and computer software useful in fisheries science.
Email: prand@wildsalmoncenter.org
Mark Trenholm, Director of North American Programs
Mark Trenholm joined the Wild Salmon Center as our Director of North America Programs in September 2008. Prior to taking this position, Mark worked for seven years as the Executive Director of the Tillamook Bay National Estuary Project. Serving a diverse, multi-stakeholder Board and managing an eight person staff, Mark oversaw the implementation of almost 200 salmonid habitat enhancement, monitoring, and education projects. Prior to his work with the National Estuary Project, Mark managed a range of resource planning and community development projects as a planning consultant. He holds a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and a Masters of Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon. Mark enjoys steelheading, Red Sox baseball, and exploring the places salmon swim.
Trozell Weaver, Government Affairs Program Assistant
Trozell joined the Wild Salmon Center in July 2008. She is a Portland native who loves her Pacific Northwest roots and has a deep passion for salmon conservation. Trozell received her B.A. in International Relations and Global Affairs from Eckerd College in Florida. She also studied in Spain, attended the Universidad de Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied conflict resolution at the United Nations. Before joining the Wild Salmon Center, Trozell was a professional caregiver to her uncle who suffered from ALS (commonly known as, Lou Gehrig's disease) and an Intern for the Film Connection at Mercy Corp in Portland. In her free time Trozell enjoys backpacking, rock climbing, cooking, soccer, skiing and traveling.
Email: tweaver@wildsalmoncenter.org
Bob Van Dyk, Forest Policy Manager
Bob follows forest policy for the Wild Salmon Center, with much of his work focused on Oregon's state-owned Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests. These state forests cover the Coast Range between the Pacific Ocean and the Portland Metropolitan area, and they are home to some of the strongest wild salmon runs left in the state. Bob's background is in forest policy and academia. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, and he has worked for 15 years at Pacific University in Forest Grove, where he has served as the associate dean and the chair of the Department of Political Science. Bob is also trained in GIS, and he has a special passion for illustrating public policy through maps. In his spare time Bob tends a big garden, chases his kids, and gets lost on the back roads of Oregon's fabulous public lands.
Email: bvandyk@wildsalmoncenter.org
Laura Williams, Senior Advisor, Western Pacific Programs
Laura is formerly head of the WWF Russia Kamchatka/Bering Sea Program, where much of her work was focused on salmon and ecosystem conservation. Laura has been actively involved in Russian nature conservation since 1993, when she moved to Russia to open the first office of WWF in Moscow. She lived for nearly 10 years in a remote nature reserve and wrote a book on her experiences, called The Storks' Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside. She received a bachelor's from Cornell University in International Environmental Policy and a Master's from the Yale Forestry School in Conservation Biology. Her interests include biodiversity conservation, protected areas, and climate adaptations in Russia. She lives in Russia with her two sons and husband, Russian nature photographer Igor Shpilenok (www.shpilenok.com).
Aleksandr Yatskov, Administrative Assistant
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine, Aleksandr arrived to the U.S in April 1993. He received a Bachelors degree in Business Management from Phoenix University in December of 2003. He possess over ten years experience providing management, administrative and human resources support. His interests include camping; fishing; playing soccer, ice and roller hockey, volleyball, ping pong, tennis, and guitar.
Consulting Partners
Olga Krever, Russian Policy Advisor
Olga Krever is an expert on protected areas and biodiversity conservation in Russia. She is assisting WSC on protected areas policy issues in Russia, including creation and financing of a network of salmon strongholds on Kamchatka. Olga works in close cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and is involved in several projects for the Ministry, for UNDP, WWF-Russia, as well as consulting government representatives in different administrative regions of Russia. She has also served as Head of the Protected Areas Legislative Department and Deputy Head of the Department of State Policy on Environment of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.
Email: okrever@mail.ru
Gordie Reeves, Visiting Scientist
Gordie Reeves is a Research Fish Biologist in the PNW Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service where he has worked for 25 years. His expertise is in the freshwater ecology of anadromous salmon and trout, conservation biology of those fish, and aquatic aspects of landscape ecology. He has studied the ecology of anadromous salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest, northern California, Idaho, and Alaska and fish ecology in New Zealand and New York. He has published over 50 papers on the freshwater ecology of Pacific salmon and trout, effects of land management activities on the freshwater habitats of these fish, conservation plans, and dynamics of aquatic ecosystems in the PNW. Gordie received several awards for his work from the Forest Service and the Pacific Rivers Council. He was a member of committees that developed and evaluated management options for managing federal lands in the PNW and Alaska. He currently serves as the Team Leader of the Aquatic and Land Interaction Program at the PNW Station in Corvallis. He also currently is a member of the NOAA Fisheries Technical Recovery Team for coho salmon in coastal Oregon. He has been a co-leader of the Coastal Landscape Analysis and Modeling Study, a long-term, large, interdisciplinary project to model and evaluate forest policy effects at multiple scales. He commercially fished for salmon in northern California during the summers while in graduate school.
Email: greeves@wildsalmoncenter.org
Interns
Luke Fuller, North America Programs Intern
Luke Fuller is a Florida native who has lived in Oregon for the past eighteen years. Currently he is working toward his B.A. in Environmental Studies at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Luke is working with the Wild Salmon Center to increase public awareness of the importance of protecting the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests. Much of his work is in the field, utilizing local farmers markets to spread the word about state forest policy. In his free time Luke is head coach of the Forest Grove Water Polo Club and enjoys swimming, biking, and various board sports.
Amy Hill, Technical Writer Intern
Amy Hill is working with the Wild Salmon Center to produce website content in support of documenting Wild Salmon Center's experience in conservation planning. She holds a B.A. in English from Rice University with significant coursework in Environmental Studies, and is currently completing a M.S. in Technical Writing at Portland State University. Amy's professional history includes technical environmental positions with organizations such as Austin Youth Riverwatch, Colorado Riverwatch Foundation, and the Port of Portland. She has also been the Communications Manager for Vigor Industrial, owner of the Portland Shipyard, since 2005. After growing up in Texas, Amy is still adjusting to the unique climate of the Pacific Northwest. She spends her free time traveling with her husband and running with her flat coat retriever.
Julia Gibson, Development & Research Intern
Hailing from Amherst, Massachusetts, Julia made the move to Portland after graduating from William Smith College with a B.A. in Philosophy and Russian Language and Culture. Her interest in conservation and non-profit work was sparked after spending a semester studying and traveling in Siberia. While not interning at the Wild Salmon Center or working as a barista, Julia enjoys exploring her new home, and experimenting with vegan cooking.
Amber Gladieux, GIS Intern
Amber came to the Wild Salmon Center in May 2009. She received a Graduate Certificate in GIS from Portland State University in 2009, and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Recreation from the University of Idaho, and an Associate's degree in Fish and Wildlife Management from Hocking College in Ohio. In her spare time Amber likes to explore Portland by bike, snowboard, canoe, travel and go camping in the great Northwest.
Anthony K. Sharp, Russian Programs Volunteer
Anthony K. Sharp is a Portland native and a proud Oregonian. After graduating from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University in Corvallis with a B Sc in Natural Resources, Anthony was invited to serve as a Protected Areas Manager in the Russian mining town of Leninogorsk, Kazakhstan through Peace Corps. He spent three years in the Altai Mountain range on the Kazakh-Russo border where he helped open a tourist visitors center, organize river clean-ups, and teach youth the importance of biodiversity and a healthy lifestyle. At the Peak Varoshilova base camp, Anthony spent long winter and short summers doing the dirty work of developing ecological tourism by building trails, wooden cabins, guiding multi-day camping expeditions, and planting an educational tree farm. Since Anthony's Central Asian odyssey, he has walked across France on 'The Way of St. James', and is back in Portland working as a Security Professional with Downtown Clean and Safe. Anthony is considering Masters Programs in Environmental Science, and likes to spend his time bicycle riding, kayaking, cross country skiing, and nostalgically shopping at the Russian 'magazines' of SE Portland.
Tim Wigington, Government Affairs Intern
Tim grew up in Boulder, Colorado, hiking, biking, camping and skiing his way through childhood. He moved to Portland to attend college and experience the great Northwest and has stayed despite the rain. He received a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish in 2007, and an MBA focused on sustainable business principles from the University of Portland in 2009. He currently attends Lewis & Clark Law School and plans to focus on climate change and environmental law.
Brad Young, Administrative Research Intern
Growing up along the front range of the Colorado Rockies, Brad has always had a keen interest in the environment and its protection. From hiking fourteeners to fishing in pristine mountain lakes, nature plays an integral role in his life. When not exploring outside, Brad trained as a nationally ranked tennis player and maintained a reef aquarium that now is on display at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Brad is a rising junior at Duke University and is majoring in Environmental Science and Policy with focuses in Psychology and Markets and Management. Eager to come to the Wild Salmon Center after spending a month studying Philosophy in Greece, Brad will be conducting a carbon footprint analysis of the WSC, hoping to make a green organization even greener.