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Darren Campbell - Siskiyou Wild Rivers Campaign Coordinator
Darren relocated to Southern Oregon from the Lake Tahoe area where he consulted in land use, urban planning, sustainability and environmental issues. With a passion for sustainability and environmental issues, Darren has spent significant time volunteering for non-profit organizations and co-founded two annual environmental film festivals in Lake Tahoe. An avid outdoor adventurer and former river guide, Darren has kayaked and rafted local rivers and enjoys exploring all the area has to offer.
Darren also spends some of his time in film and video production and has co-produced several documentary film projects. Darren has a BA in Environmental Conservation from the University of Colorado and an MA in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
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
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
Kate Lasky - General Manager, 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
Darlene Southworth
President
David Johns
Vice-president
Bob Hunter
Secretary
Laurel Samson
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Romain Cooper
Steve Dreben
Greg Walter
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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
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