Laurie Wayburn

Ms. Wayburn is an accomplished forest and conservation innovator who advises policymakers at the state, regional, national, and international levels. She pioneers new approaches to develop sustainable resource economies using her deep experience in the fields of conservation, ecosystem services, and sustainability. A preeminent authority on the climate and ecosystem benefits of forests, she leads efforts enacting climate change policies that unite conservation and sustainable management with market-based approaches. She has received several highly prestigious honors bestowed for her leadership and is a frequent speaker, writer, and media commentator on working forest conservation.

Prior to co-founding Pacific Forest Trust with Constance Best in 1993, Ms. Wayburn worked internationally for 10 years in the United Nations Environment Program and Ecological Sciences Division of UNESCO. She later served as Executive Director of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and was the Founder and first Coordinator of the Central California Coast Biosphere Reserve. Ms. Wayburn is a graduate of Harvard University and currently serves on the Northwest BioCarbon Initiative Steering Committee, the American Forest Policy Steering Committee, and the Land Trust Alliance Advisory Council.

Bill Craven

William (Bill) Craven, Former Chief Consultant of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee (2001-2019), has a unique ability to work with multiple stakeholders, often with competing interests, to find workable solutions for deeply complex issues. Consequently, he has helped shape virtually every important bill that affects California’s natural resources in the past two decades. Forestry, endangered species and wildlife, and state parks and other lands are part of the Natural Resources and Water Committee’s purview; his work has been invaluable to all. Prior to becoming a legislative staffer, he was the state director for Sierra Club California. Before that, he led the fight to limit illegal pollution in Kansas, first as a reporter and later as an environmental attorney.

Representative Pam Marsh (District 5, Southern Jackson County)

Pam Marsh was first elected to House District 5 in southern Oregon in November 2016. In the 2017 and 2018 Legislative Sessions, she served as Vice-Chair of the House Committee on Economic Development and Trade, and as a member of the House Revenue Committee, the Joint Committee on Tax Credits, the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on General Government, and the House Energy and Environment Committee. Pam ran for the Legislature because she knows from firsthand experience that government matters. Thoughtful, targeted and leveraged policies are necessary to protect our most vulnerable residents, lift our families, and assist residents as they create healthy, self-sustaining communities.