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Staff
  Saul Weisberg
Executive Director

  Jim Alt
Retail / Naturalist
  Tanya Anderson
Graduate Program Coordinator
  Dan Barrett
Systems Administrator
  Kevin Biggs
Field Naturalist
  Tom Borst
Caretaker
  Debra Brodie
Director of Administration
  Amy Brown
North Cascades Wild Program Coordinator
  Laura Busby
Program Director
  Jeff Giesen
Education Director
  Kristofer Gilje
Operations Director
  Angela Goodall
Head Housekeeper
  Jessica Haag
Marketing & Design Coordinator
  Jan Healy
Bookstore Manager
  Anne Hubka
Administrative Assistant
  Flint Hughes
Operations Assistant
  Brooke Larrabee
Development Coordinator
  Orawan Layne
Bookkeeper
  Deb Martin
Registrar
  Christian Martin
Communications Coordinator
  Mark McGee
Sous Chef
  Megan McGinty
Community Programs Naturalist
  Kris Molesworth
Donor Relations Manager
  Katie Roloson
Curriculim Coordinator
  Jason Ruvelson
Controller
  Kacey Shoemaker
Customer Information and Registration Assistant
  Aneka Singlaub
Climate Challenge Lead Instructor
  Shelby Slater
Chef/Foodshed Manager
  Julie Toomey
Executive Assistant
  Amy Wilcox
Development Director
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Board of Directors

James E. Bishop
Chief Executive Officer, Summit Bank, Burlington, WA

Dave Bonn (Treasurer)
Retired, Winthrop, WA

Terry Conner
Retired, Tacoma, WA

Gerry Cook (Ex-Officio)
Maintenance Foreman, North Cascades National Park, Marblemount, WA

Pete Dewell (Ex-Officio)
Of Counsel, Anderson Hunter (Retired), Everett, WA

Dunham Gooding (Past Chair)
President, American Alpine Institute, Bellingham, WA

Peter Jackson
Writer, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Seattle, WA

Nan McKay
Consultant, Seattle, WA

John Miles
Professor, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Stan Miller
President, Swanson, Miller & Kahn, Inc., Bellingham, WA

Jeanne Muir (Chair)
Principal, Urban Relations, Seattle, WA

Therese Ogle
Principal, Northwest Grantmaking Resources, Seattle, WA

Byron Ricks
Manager, Microsoft, Carnation, WA

Brian Scheuch
Owner, BCS Consulting, La Conner, WA

Randy Self
Teacher, Catharine Blaine K-8 School, Seattle, WA

Shirley Solomon
Chair, Skagit Watershed Council, Mount Vernon, WA

Abby Sussman
Wilderness ranger and writer, Bellingham, WA

Tom Venable
Principal, Carl Cozier Elementary School, Bellingham, WA

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Advisory Council
Thomas Lowe Fleischner, PhD
Prescott College, AZ

Art Kruckeberg, PhD
Professor of Botany (Emeritus), University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Estella Leopold, PhD
Professor of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Richard Louv
Author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Chip Jenkins
Superintendent, North Cascades National Park, WA

Rob Iwamoto
Forest Supervisor, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, WA

Robert Michael Pyle, PhD
Author, Conservationist and Lepidopterist, Gray's River, WA

John Reynolds
Director, Pacific Northwest Region, National Park Service (retired), San Francisco, CA

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