|
Oshana Catranides - Community Forestry and Restoration Program Director
Oshana has lived and worked in Josephine County for over 20 years, with experience in grantwriting, community development, restoration forestry, fire hazard reduction, and tourism development. She was formerly Executive Director of Lomakatsi Restoration Project, and before that she was a grantwriter and public outreach specialist with the Illlinoic Valley Community Response Team. Oshana also enjoys cultivating relationships in Native American and Tibetan Buddhism circles and with her four-generation family in Ashland. 541.476.6648, or cell 541.621.6999
Kindi Fahrnkopf - Financial Manager
Kindi Fahrnkopf has been the Office Manager for the Siskiyou Project for 10 years. She came to the project after completing a two year degree in Business Administration, at Rogue Community College, with a specialty in payroll and computer accounting. She had previously done bookkeeping for her small business in Cave Junction, and has been a resident of the Illinois Valley for 25 years. During that time she has raised 4 children in her little cabin by the East Fork of the Illinois River in Takilma. Kindi is an advocate for the beautiful Siskiyou Mountains, with her art and poetry. Kindi also enjoys hiking, gardening, and traveling in her spare time. 541.592.4459
Shane Jimerfield - Executive Director
Shane has a long history in Southwestern Oregon. As a child Shane lived in Grants Pass and still has family in the area. He has rafted the Rogue River with his brother and has hiked many of the trails in Siskiyou country. He brings his love for the area and experience to Siskiyou Project.
Shane took the helm of Siskiyou Project after twelve years as a biodiversity activist with the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, AZ. He served there as Assistant Director, Information Technology Administrator, and Researcher. Prior to his work with the Center for Bioilogical Diversity he helped build the Student Environmental Action Coalition. Shane has a degree in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Arizona. 541.476.6648
Rich Nawa - Staff Ecologist
Rich has an M.A. in zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and has done further graduate work in aquatic ecology at Oregon State University at Corvallis. Rich served as a wildlife biologist for the Bureau of Land Management for six years. Since 1992, Rich has been employed by the Siskiyou Project to write comments, appeal Forest Service decisions, organize volunteer stream surveys and lead educational field trips. Rich has written extensively about salmon and their habitat including four endangered species petitions for anadromous fish. 541.476.6648
Julie Norman - Deputy Director
Julie has a B.A. in mathematics and an MA in computer science from the University of Texas. She has worked as a programmer for IBM and as a whitewater rafting guide. She has been involved in forest protection campaigns since 1975. From 1987 - 1998 she was president of Headwaters Environmental Center in Ashland, Oregon. In 1988 she received the Wilderness Society Environmental Hero Award. She now works for the Siskiyou Project on special educational projects like the Klamath-Siskiyou documentary film. 541.488.9474
Karen Phillips - Development and Publications Director
Karen comes to us from her 5-year tenure as Southern Oregon Goodwill’s Grants and Marketing Coordinator. During her time at Goodwill, she wrote grant proposals, and coordinated media relations for the organization throughout southwestern Oregon and northern California. Karen’s has a lifelong love of exploring the natural world. She is an avid naturalist, completing the Naturalist Certificate course at the Siskiyou Field Institute. Karen is also an accomplished photographer and freelance writer whose work has appeared in regional and national publications including Snowy Egret and Bird Watcher’s Digest. 541.476.6648
Marjorie Reynolds - Mail and Data Processor
Marjorie got involved with the project after spending time on Bald Mtn. with Lou Gold in 1989. She has been an activist around the nuclear issue and was arrested many times at Diablo Nuke, Livermore, Vandenburg AFB, and Nev. test site, and also a few peace walks. She has been active in forest protests including organizing a walk from the Sugarloaf timber sale to Medford. She now lives in an award winning straw bale house and practicing living simply with the Takilma community. 541.592.4459
Darlene Southworth
President
David Johns
Vice-president
Bob Hunter
Secretary
Laurel Samson
Treasurer |
Romain Cooper
Jim Gurley
Dave Willis
Richard York |
Lou Gold is a founding member of the Siskiyou Project, a grassroots environmental group that has triggered a worldwide effort to save the wildlands and biodiversity of the Klamath-Siskiyou region. Lou Gold is a dynamic storyteller and eloquent voice for the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest. After twelve years of speaking to enthusiastic audiences across the country, he has become nationally known as the pied piper of ecological idealism. His wilderness tales of bears, owls, fungi and wildfire reveal the secrets of old-growth forest ecology and his tough-minded analysis has inspired a generation of citizens to act now to end the damage being done to our public lands. He brings a message of hope, power and opportunity for all who care about wild places.
Writings
"When I discovered painting, I found I could paint a picture in which you didn't know if you were looking at a star becoming a flower or a flower becoming a star, whether you were looking at something that was under the ocean or in the sky or on the earth or in the forest. Differences and separations were not the underlying text. Instead, the mystery of connection was being expressed. That was very exciting to me." ...View Lou's gallery
-- Lou Gold
|
