Leadership

A Coordinating Committee guides and facilitates the development of the Network. It is intentionally called a Coordinating Committee (rather than a steering or executive committee) since it draws its authority from the goals of the group as a whole.  The Coordinating Committee is responsible for scheduling meetings, refining and advancing the Network’s goals, tapping members for Network tasks and articulating the way forward for the Network.  

Coordinating Committee

Bob Bendick, Co-Chair
Director of Governmental Affairs, The Nature Conservancy

Lynn Scarlett, Co-Chair
Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Former Acting Secretary, US Department of the Interior

Emily Bateson
Conservation Director, Highstead 

Dana Beach
Executive Director, Coastal Conservation League 

Gary Burnett
Executive Director, Blackfoot Challenge 

Wendy Francis
Program Director, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative 

Steve Frisch
President, Sierra Business Council 

Jerry Kenny
Executive Director, Platte River Recovery Implementation Program 

Carleton Montgomery
Executive Director, Pinelands Preservation Alliance

Kit Muller
Landscape Initiatives Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management 

Rob Pirani
Vice President for Environmental Programs, Regional Plan Association 

John Singlaub
Former Executive Director, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency

Peter Stein
Managing Director, The Lyme Timber Company 

Esther Stroh
Ecologist, US Geological Survey

Gary Tabor
Director, Center for Large Landscape Conservation 

Ben Thatcher
Assistant National Coordinator, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives,
US Fish & Wildlife Service

Michael Whitfield
Coordinator, Heart of the Rockies Initiative 

Peter Williams
Collaborative Planning and Multiparty Monitoring Specialist,
USDA Forest Service

Jim Levitt (ex officio)
Senior Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Director, Program on Conservation Innovation, Harvard Forest

Matt McKinney (ex officio)
Director, Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Policy, The University of Montana