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STAFF
Michael Pope
Executive Director
michael@greenbeltlandtrust.org
Jeff Baker
Stewardship Program Manager
jeff@greenbeltlandtrust.org
Claire Fiegener
Special Projects Manager
claire@greenbeltlandtrust.org
Stephan Friedt
Office Administrator
stephan@greenbeltlandtrust.org
Steve Lilly
Assistant Stewardship Manager
steve@greenbeltlandtrust.org
Jessica McDonald
Development Director
jessica@greenbeltlandtrust.org
Denise Richards
Administrative Assistant
denise@greenbeltlandtrust.org
board of Directors
Back row, from left - Seymour House, Keli Kuykendall, Chris Kiilsgaard, Douglas Brodie, John Martinsen, Ethan Hasenstein, Nancy Ross Hathaway, John Bliss. Front row, from left -
Betty Griffiths, Joanne McLennan, Jack Mykrantz
Ethan Hasenstein, President
Assistant Attorney General
Ethan has served as a Board Member since 2010. Since 2006, he has worked as an attorney for the Oregon Attorney General, representing the state in environmental, land use, employment, tribal relations, and regulatory matters. He previously served as a law clerk to Justice Mark Gibbons of the Nevada Supreme Court, and workedfor the Bonneville Power Administration's Office of General Counsel, a Portland environmental and commercial litigation law firm, and the Multnomah County District Attorney. Prior to his legal career, he worked as an Americorps National Service Member and for an environmental and forestry consulting firm. His graduate work focused on developing a watershed-based strategic plan for a regional land trust in Montana's Upper Clark Fork basin. He lives in Corvallis with his wife, Liisa, a middle school teacher, and is an avid fly fisherman, surfer, skier, and gardener.
Seymour House, Vice President
Dean of the Graduate School at Mount Angel Seminary
Seymour joined the Board in 2011. Before becoming dean of the graduate school at Mount Angel Seminary (where he also teaches church history and literature) he had various jobs—Outward Bound instructor, stunt man, logging road crew, dishwasher, professor. He holds a BA in English, an MA in philosophy and a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History (University of St. Andrews.) More importantly, he comes from an old Illinois farming family with strong ties to land conservation, grew up planting native hardwoods along the Mississippi River, and has spent much time in the mountains (Yukon, New Zealand) and biking the backroads of France. His wife works at Gathering Together Farms, cooking for the field crew and restaurant, and propagating vegetables in the greenhouse. They have restored part of their property to a seasonal wetland.
Keli Kuykendall, Treasurer
Director of Cascade Pacific RC&D
Jack Mykrantz, Secretary
Retired
Jack has served on the Board since 2008. Jack graduated from Dartmouth College with an MBA in Finance. He worked at Monsanto Company in cost control, construction litigation and project management. Jack also serves as a board member and tresurer of ARC of Benton County.
Anita Azarenko
Professor and Department Head of the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University.
The Department of Horticulture is a comprehensive department with active research, Extension, and teaching missions with emphasis on ecological and sustainable cropping systems and landscapes. The department serves an extremely diverse and changing high-value horticulture, specialty crop sector. Anita is responsible for strategic planning, program development, priority staffing, public relations, marketing, and other activities that enhance or serve the Horticulture Department, faculty, and programs. She also conducts research on integrated and organic tree fruit farming systems, especially in sweet cherry cropping systems, floral biology, and orchard floor and soil management systems. With her husband, they are stewards of a small direct-market farm that grows organic fruit and hazelnuts, and pasture raised beef for local retail and farmers’ markets and schools, and grow hay and timber in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Anita holds a PhD, MS, and BS in horticulture from the University of Maryland. She has been at OSU since October 1986 as the on-campus pomologist with a three-way appointment in research, teaching, and Extension until 2003 at which time she became the department head.
John Bliss
Professor, Starker Chair in Private and Family Forestry
John joined the Board in 2011, returning after a 2 year hiatus from the board. As a resource manager, educator, and researcher, he has been active in the field of private lands management, conservation, and policy for 25 years. He is very familiar with the capabilities and constraints facing private forest owners, farmers, andranchers, as well as the policies affecting their land use decisions. As Starker Chair in Private and Family Forestry at Oregon State University, much of his research has focused on conservation motivations and attitudes of private landowners. In his free time he enjoys music composition, improvisation, and performance.
Douglas Brodie
Retired OSU Forest Science Professor
Douglas has been a Board Member since 2008. He attended the University of Toronto,Syracuse and the University Cal Berkeley in Forestry and Resource Economics. He worked as a professor in the College of Forestry, Oregon State University-1975-2001. He worked on forest planning,financial and economic analysis of resource projects and policy,Optimization analysis of resource projects. Douglas also serves on the Corvallis Ducks Unlimited Board. And enjoys hiking,hunting skiing gardening.
Tara Davis
Executive Director, Calapooia Watershed Council
Tara has been with the Council since May 2006 as their Coordinator, and as of July 2009 their Executive Director with the Council’s recent transition into a non-profit organization. Tara is a native Southern Oregonian (or Jeffersonian if you believe in the “State”), and grew up playing on the Rogue River. She received her degree in Environmental Science from Santa Clara University, a Masters in Water Resources Management emphasizing watershed management in developing nations from the University of New Mexico, and a River Restoration Professional Certificate in 2011 from Portland State University. Tara has worked with both social and environmental non-profit organizations for over 8 years.
Betty Griffiths
Former Corvallis City Councilwoman
She was initially elected to the Greenbelt Board of Directors in 2002 and has served as President and Vice President of the Board. After a one year hiatus, she was again elected to serve on the Board of Directors in 2008. After moving to Corvallis to attend graduate school at OSU some 40 years ago; she and her husband, Bob, decided that it was an ideal place to live and raise a family. She is retired from a career in counseling with Linn County Health Department. She also recently retired from her volunteer job after serving 14 years on the Corvallis City Council where she was elected as Council President twice and Council Vice President twice. While on City Council she helped spearhead the passage of the Open Space Bond Measure in 2000. In her spare time she travels to distant parts of the world, but her favorite travel is on the roadways, bike paths and rivers of Oregon to ski, hike, bike, canoe and raft.
Chris Kiilsgaard
Owner/Sponsor Muddy Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank
Chris has been a Board Member since 2010. Chris has an MS in biogeography from Oregon State University and has had a 35-year career in natural resource assessment. He presently is the owner and developer of the Muddy Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank in Monroe, Oregon. Chris also serves on the board of the Northwest Habitat Institute and has a long standing interest in open spaces and how they serve community interests. His personal interests center on outdoor recreation and nurturing his back yard vineyard.
John Martinsen
Financial Advisor
Emeritus Board Members
Meg Campbell
Field Director, Camp Fire Girls (retired)
Steve McLaughlin
Former partner, Kinko's (retired)