Board of Directors
Jim Blomquist, Chair
California
Mr. Blomquist is an independent consultant to non-profit groups specializing in campaign strategy and lobbying. He worked for the Sierra Club for 25 years in a variety of positions, including Regional Representative in the Pacific Northwest and Southern California and a Washington Representative in DC specializing in National Forest and National Park issues, during the legislative fights over the spotted owl. Mr. Blomquist also worked on the legislation to establish the Smith River National Recreation Area. In addition, he served as a Major Gift Officer and Director of the Office of Educational Programs. Mr. Blomquist currently serves on the Board of the Smith River Alliance and is an avid fisherman.
Mark Trautwein, Secretary/Treasurer
California
Mr. Trautwein was on the staff of the US House Interior Committee from 1979 until 1995 under Chairmen Mo Udall and George Miller where he was responsible for the committee’s jurisdiction over parks, public lands and wilderness. During that time, the Committee led Congress in doubling the size of the national parks system, tripling the wilderness system and enacting landmark conservation laws such as the Alaska Lands Act. Previously, he was a staff writer for Congress’ Environmental Study Conference. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a newspaper reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area for five years. He retired from Congressional work in 1995 and returned to San Francisco, where he is now an independent consultant as well as an editor at KQED public radio.
Linda C. McNulty
Arizona
Ms. McNulty is Of Counsel with Lewis and Roca, LLP. She specializes in complex commercial leasing, shopping center development, real estate acquisitions and sales, complex title disputes, environmentally-sensitive real estate issues, conservation easements and natural resources. She served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard M. Bilby, and was the staff attorney for the American Continental Corporation/Lincoln Savings, Charles M. Keating Multi-District Litigation from 1988 through 1992. She served as Special Assistant at the Arizona Department of Water Resources, authoring portions of the first Groundwater Management Plan for the Tucson Active Management Area and as the Water and Natural Resources staff for Congressman James F. McNulty, Jr., where her responsibilities included Central Arizona Project, groundwater management, and the Arizona Wilderness Act of 1984. Prior to joining Lewis and Roca, Ms. McNulty was a partner with Mendelsohn, Oseran & Eisner, P.C. Ms. McNulty is a member of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest and a member of Tucson CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) and the Arizona Women Lawyers Association.
Jon Mulford
Oregon
Mr. Mulford was formerly engaged in the practice of law in Denver and Aspen specializing in federal public land law. He is a fellow of the University of Colorado Natural Resources Law Center (1984). Mr. Mulford is the past president and founder of The Wilderness Land Trust.
Buck Parker
California
Mr. Parker has been on the staff of the non-profit environmental law group Earthjustice since 1980, where he served as litigation coordinator, vice president, and, from 1997 to 2007, executive director. He has also served on the boards of Ecojustice Canada and the Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente, which he cofounded in 1996 to promote cooperation and coordination among environmental law groups in the Western Hemisphere. Prior to his joining Earthjustice Buck practiced law in Portland, Oregon, and devoted many volunteer hours to wilderness protection in Oregon, Alaska and the West.
Bill Pope
Washington
Mr. Pope is an attorney based in Seattle, Washington. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Earthjustice and is a long time wilderness user and advocate. Mr. Pope also owns the Mazama Country Inn and is a former Microsoft Corporate Counsel.
Doug Scott
Washington
Mr. Scott is the Policy Director for the Campaign for America's Wilderness. He formerly managed a local environmental group in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, worked at The Wilderness Society, and for 17 years for the Sierra Club, including as conservation director and associate executive director. Mr. Scott was involved in the enactment of the Eastern Wilderness Areas Act (1975), The Endangered American Wilderness Act (1978), the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (Idaho, 1980), The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (1980), and the California Desert Protection Act (California, 1994), among others.
Paul Torrence Ph.D.
Oregon
Dr. Torrence is an avid conservationist and wilderness supporter who retired from his position as the Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Northern Arizona to become an organic farmer in southwestern Oregon. He has conducted and published research focused on the discovery of new approaches to the treatment of viral, neoplastic, parasitic, and inherited diseases. As a conservationist his dedication ranges from the international to the local. He is a valued member of multiple nonprofit conservation boards and, like all good farmers, willing to get his hands into specific campaigns and causes, such as the protection of Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks, sacred to 13 north American tribes, and the threat of wilderness inholdings
Andy Wiessner
Colorado
Mr. Wiessner has worked for Western Land Group and facilitated Congressionally approved land exchanges since 1988. His expertise in legislative affairs stems from his extensive experience in Washington D.C. that includes serving as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks, and the Subcommittee on Mines and Mining. He has also served as a mediator for projects involving the National Wildlife Federation, U.S. Park Service, and others. Mr. Wiessner also serves on the Board of Directors of the Wilderness Workshop and the High Country News.
