Natural Resource Management

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Peter Vorster

1990 Fellow
Peter Vorster has 40 years of experience as a hydrogeographer, much of it focused on California's water resources and the landmark water conflicts in the Eastern Sierra (Mono Lake and the Owens Valley) and the San Francisco Bay-Delta...
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Daniel Newberry

1992 Fellow
Daniel is currently the Executive Director of the Johnson Creek Watershed Council, an organization that restores an urban and agricultural watershed in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area by engaging more than 1,300 volunteers each year...
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Marcy Lyman

1993 Fellow
Marcy's initiatives related to acid rain, river management protection, forest management and wilderness designation, work in philanthropy designing and managing a grants program, and research and writing on the field of community-based...
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Cecilia Danks

1994 Fellow
Cecilia completed her BA in biology and environmental studies at Williams College. After graduating, she spent two years in Central and South America studying tropical deforestation and forest conservation. She then worked for two-and-a...
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John Sanderson

1992 Fellow
John Sanderson is the Director of Colorado State University’s Center for Collaborative Conservation. At the Center, John and his staff work to build the capacity of organizations, communities, and future leaders to achieve conservation...
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Daniel Mountjoy

1990 Fellow
Daniel is currently responsible for the management of three program areas at Sustainable Conservation: (1) Development of Statewide Programmatic Permitting for small scale restoration projects, (2) testing and evaluation of Ecosystem...
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Elizabeth Reichheld

1991 Fellow
Beth works in the Catskill Mountains-the source of New York City's drinking water supply-as Program Director for the Stream Management Program with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. She manages a small diverse group...
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Carlos Plazola

1994 Fellow
Carlos Plazola, 1994 Switzer Fellow, began as an environmental justice organizer in 1994. Since then, he has studied and participated in models of enabling social innovation, power redistribution, and grassroots activation through his roles...
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Darold Batzer

1989 Fellow
Daryl is an associate professor of entomology at the University of Georgia, and studies the ecology and environmental biology of wetland invertebrates. Daryl and his students work extensively with the trophic ecology of invertebrates, and...
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Elizabeth Soderstrom

1993 Fellow
Elizabeth holds a senior staff position at American Rivers in river conservation. Her responsibilities include major donor fundraising, development and management of a California Advisory Council, grant writing, and project management...