From 1992-2003 was living near Washington, DC
working on a whole host of wildlife conservation
issues. For eight years I worked as conservation
director and then vice president for Defenders of
Wildlife and was heavily involved in the return of
wolves to Yellowstone National Park. Then I worked
for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as their vice
president of environmental protection and restoration
and spending a lot of time on Bay waters--both
professionally and for recreation.
I then served as executive director of the Community
Environmental Council in Santa Barbara heading up a
50-person staff working on energy, pollution,
transportation, stream restoration, education and a
whole host of other environmental issues. I also
finally settled down and got married in January 2005
to a wonderful woman--Carlene Marie Ramus--a first
for both of us.
Since we got married it has been an adventure and I
have held non-profit CEO jobs in Vermont, DC and now in
Bellingham, WA where I run an organization called RE
Sources for Sustainable Communities
(www.re-sources.org). We just bought a nice little
house with great views of Bellingham Bay and also the
sewage treatment facility--you've got to take the good
with the bad.