Officers:

Maryanne Tagney Jones has worked on conservation issues and in Washington State environmental politics for 20 years. As the State Chair of Washington Conservation Voters (WCV) she worked extensively with elected officials, political professionals and volunteer organizations across the State to achieve conservation goals on both the state and local levels. Now Chair Emeritus of WCV Maryanne keeps an active eye on politics while shifting her main focus to open space preservation through her position as Vice-Chair of the Cascade Land Conservancy Board.  The Tagney-Jones family moved to the Snoqualmie Valley in 1981, where Maryanne worked for the local newspaper as reporter, photographer and anything else that needed doing on a small rural weekly. This led to her interest in politics and, combined with her addiction to running over the forested foothills of the Cascade Mountains, resulted in a career very different from the one she envisioned when studying to become an Educational Psychologist back at college in England.

Joe Sambataro has lived in Washington State since 1978, after growing up just 10 miles outside NYC in New Jersey and living in Hollywood Florida for 6 years before coming to Seattle.  Joe and his wife Judy (high school sweethearts) have raised three children in Washington, two daughters (Christine and Lisa) and a son (Joe III – a CLC Project Associate).   Joe was previously a partner with KPMG Peat Marwick and managing partner of BDO Seidman, LLP, both CPA firms.  He also served as co-founder and chief executive officer for an environmental services company, the first company in the country to develop the technology for cleaning up toxic waste sites using bio remediation.   Joe joined Labor Ready in August 1997, serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer. In September 2001, he was named president and chief executive officer and now is currently retired from Labor Ready.  Joe enjoys fishing and spending time with his best friend (Judy) and his three children.

Bruce Williams is a Puget Sound native from a family that has lived here since the 1880's. He has been on the Board of the Cascade Land Conservancy since 1994.  He is the Chairman and CEO of HomeStreet Bank.  Before joining HomeStreet Bank, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, and an attorney at the Perkins Coie law firm in Seattle.  He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Washington Law School.  Bruce, his wife Gro Buer, and their daughter enjoy outdoor activities on both sides of the Cascades, including hiking, biking, and skiing.

Peter Orser is currently President of Quadrant Homes.  He has been involved in every major element of the business; over the past several years he has been responsible for residential home building operations.  In that capacity, Peter led reengineering of the operations, bringing the Company to prominence as the area’s leading home builder.

Peter’s civic commitments have also been diverse.  He is currently a commissioner of the King County Housing Authority, a board member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and is past President of the King and Snohomish County Master Builders Association.  He also served five years as the Mercer Island Planning Commissioner and was elected in 1994 to a four-year term on the City Council.

 

Debbie Young grew up in Seattle and attended the UW and WWU finishing with an MS in Biology. She moved to Tacoma to work at TCC and never left.  She taught chemistry, anatomy, and biology, worked as a naturalist and is currently the Natural Resources Manager for Tacoma Power. Her job involves managing the group who is responsible for hydropower environmental requirements, wildlife areas, and fish hatcheries and other lands issues. She likes to travel, garden, kayak, run, and hike among other things. She serves as a Pierce County Trustee and on the board of the National Hydropower Association.

 

John Howell is a founding partner of Cedar River Group, a public policy consulting firm.  He specializes in project management, strategic planning, group facilitation and mediation, and community outreach.  His clients have included Sound Transit, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Parks Department, City of Tacoma, Pierce County, Snohomish County, the Museum of History and Industry, and Harborview Medical Center.   Howell has also served as interim President/CEO for PacMed Medical Clinics, Deputy Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Deputy Budget Director for the City of Seattle, and as Special Assistant to former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer.  He has a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in Community Development, and a master’s degree from Harvard University in Public Administration.  He lives in Seattle with his wife Claire Powers and son Harry.

Members at Large:

Robin Appleford grew up in Seattle and has enjoyed backpacking with her family and friends since the age of six.  She and her husband Charley Rosenberry have no children but currently live on Vashon Island with 7 llamas, 2 horses, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 4 chickens, a rabbit and a cockatiel.  Her llamas carry the backpacking load these days as she and Charley enjoy introducing others, especially children, to the beautiful wilderness Washington offers.  Robin is a lobbyist in Olympia when she is not out llama packing.

 

Jim Armstrong is Director of Alumni Relations at Central Washington University in Ellensburg.  Previously he was Executive Director of the Ellensburg Chamber of Commerce and Eastern Washington Director of the highly-successful Cascades Conservation Partnership, positions that reflect his belief in market-based conservation.  Armstrong is an avid recreationist who serves on the boards of several community organizations and for a decade has facilitated the Leadership Ellensburg program.  He earned a degree in law from the University of Oregon and lived in London during the punk movement of the 1980’s.  He and his wife Liahna live in Ellensburg.

 

Patti Case is public affairs/regulatory manager for Green Diamond Resource Company, a privately held business with timberlands in Washington, Oregon and California.  Case is headquartered in Shelton, Wa.  Patti is responsible for media relations, community relations and local and state governmental and regulatory relations for Green Diamond's forest management operations in Washington and Oregon.  Prior to Green Diamond, Patti owned and operated a marketing communications firm in Gig Harbor, Wash.  Since graduating from the University of Washington in communications and political science, she has held various public relations positions in the wood products industry.  She is active in Mason County and in forest industry associations in Washington and Oregon.

 

JJ Collins is a resort real estate professional based in Roslyn. Collins created, implemented and managed comprehensive marketing strategy and sales programs at SUNCADIA in Roslyn, a 7,000 acre resort community.  He has also been involved with the projects in Colorado, South Carolina and Florida.  

 

Jim Greenfield is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine practicing at the firm’s Seattle office.  His practice emphasizes real estate and development transactions with a special focus on working with public agencies on capital projects and natural resources. Jim is a recognized specialist in real estate transactions involving conservation of natural resource lands and he is well know for crafting cooperative and creative relationships among and between public and private organizations.  Before joining Davis Wright Tremaine in 1997, Jim successfully managed King County, Washington's $300 million regional park and open space acquisition program for over six years.  Jim is active in the non-profit resource land preservation community.  He is a member of and special advisor to Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland and a member of the Advisory Board of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust.   Jim obtained his J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and his B.S., with highest honors, in Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California at Berkeley.

 

Bert Gregory, as Mithun's President and CEO, has guided the Seattle-based firm to national recognition for concept based, environmentally intelligent design. His progressive approach has resulted in award-winning projects throughout North America and Asia. Under Bert’s leadership, Mithun has received four American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) Top Ten United States Green Projects awards, AIA National Honor Awards for Interior Architecture and Regional and Urban Design, and two American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Honor Awards for excellence in planning and analysis.

Terry Mutter serves as the Director of Strategic Management for the Boeing Environment, Health and Safety Group.  In this role Mutter is responsible for strategy development that integrates enterprise efforts targeted at reducing the environmental foot print of the Boeing Company and improving the health and safety of its employees. 

Mutter has more than 23 years of experience and has served in a variety of positions within Boeing including Engineering Operations and Technology, Shared Services, Corporate, and Integrated Defense Systems.  He has broad functional experience with leadership roles in Finance, e-Business, Supplier Management, Logistics, Facilities, Program Management and Strategy.  A graduate of Washington State University with a bachelor's degree in business administration, Mutter also earned a master's in business administration from Pacific Lutheran University. He has attended executive programs at Wharton and Kellogg Schools of Business, is a graduate of the Columbia University graduate school of business Senior Executive program and attended the Climate Leaders Program at the University of Cambridge.

 

John Olson hails from Eastern Washington. After Navy experience in Viet Nam, John completed a BS in Marine Biology at WWU in Bellingham and later an MS at Evergreen in environmental science. This lead him to adventures in diving biological research in north Alaska, diving education in Puget Sound, and seaweed farming activities in western Canada, Maine, and South Korea. John has been involved in real estate sales & property management in Tacoma since 1990. John has served CLC since 1996 on the merger committee, as a Pierce Trustee, Pierce Land Group, Pierce Land Steward, Board member, Chair of the Conservation Committee, and Strategic Planning Committee. John serves on a number of local boards for open space acquisition and management.

 

 

Frank Pritchard is a Seattle native, a graduate of UW, a Captain, Combat Engineers, 3rd Army, WWII,  He worked for 37 years in the printing industry and 19 years in securities industry.  He is a founding director of the Seattle-King County Land Trust.  He served as chair from 1980 to 1982 on the King County Pro-Parks Committee.  He is a past President of the Seattle Rotary, Seattle YMCA, and Exec. Service Corps.  He enjoys politics, running, skiing, mountain climbing and reading.  He has three children and four grandchildren.

Dave Remlinger grew up on his family farm near Carnation in the Snoqualmie River Valley. He attended the University of Puget Sound and then moved to Snohomish at the age of 26.  David and his wife Jaque run the Lord Hill Farms, a 500 acre farm in the Snohomish River Valley.  They grow corn, barley, nursery stock and raise beef cows. A significant part of their business is a banquet facility for weddings, corporate picnics and other celebrations.  David is on the forefront of Mitigation Banking with the creation of the Skykomish Habitat Mitigation Bank. 

 

 

Floyd Rogers was born in Wenatchee, and has spent his entire life in Washington State.  He attended WSU, earning B.Sc. Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  After graduating, Floyd worked for Boeing in their Defense and Space divisions. After 7 ½ years, he left Boeing, going to work for Software AG, designing and debugging a database system on DEC mini-computers. Floyd was hired by Microsoft in July 1982, working for them for 14 years until July of 1996, when he left to rest and reflect.  Floyd is currently ‘retired’, is a househusband, and is working on diversifying their investment holdings into real estate.  He volunteers in schools and is the south-end chair for Volunteers In Schools (VIS) to help pass bonds and levies in the Issaquah School District.  Floyd serves on the Steering Committee for The Cascades Conservation Partnership (TCCP) and also serves on the Washington State University (WSU) EECS Advisory Board.  He works full-time as a ski and snowboard instructor during the winter.  He has raised two sons, Jason and Patrick, with his wife Judy.

 

Dave Towne is a native of the Area, having been born on Bainbridge Is. and growing up in the green river valley and graduating from the UW in 1956.  His professional career spans a checkered past of public and private enterprise including merchant marine, a start up business, Wash State Parks, Boeing Contracts and Sales, Seattle Park Dept and mostly the Woodland Park Zoo for the past 20 years.  Currently do some consulting with various Zoos and is active on several local Boards as well as the N. American Giant Panda Foundation where he serves as President.  His wife Chris was very active and involved in State Shoreline Act and other environmental legislation and review Boards over the past 20 years.

Doug Walker For over 20 years, Doug was the founding partner and CEO of WRQ (until 2004), an integration software company that served nearly 4 out of 5 Fortune 500 companies and had customers in 51 countries. He is an active supporter of charitable, environmental, and community organizations. Currently, Doug is the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Vice Chair of the Governing Council of The Wilderness Society.  He also serves on the boards of the Seattle Parks Foundation, Green Diamond Resource Company, Harbor Properties, Inc., Technology Alliance, MessageGate, Inc., National Conservation System Foundation, and The American Alpine Club.  He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University and attended the University of Washington Graduate School of Mathematics. Doug is an avid hiker and mountain climber and a year-round bicycle commuter.

J. Tayloe Washburn is an attorney with the Seattle firm of Foster Pepper. Washburn has extensive experience in developing and managing entitlement strategies on large and complex, public and private projects.  His practice includes litigation, environmental and land-use issues with emphasis on growth management, land use, and land-use litigation and planning.