Bob Altman works for the American Bird Conservancy as coordinator of bird conservation activities in the Pacific Northwest. He has been providing leadership and project management on numerous bird and habitat conservation activities in the Pacific Northwest for the last 30 years. He also works internationally with partners in Mexico and Central America on conservation of our breeding birds that winter and migrate through those areas. Some of his recent projects include prairie-oak bird and habitat conservation, cavity-nesting bird conservation on privately owned ponderosa pine forests, writing management and conservation plans for agencies and non-governmental organizations, developing population estimates and management objectives for landbirds, and preparing outreach brochures on bird conservation. Much of his spare time is spent caring for a menagerie of animals including dogs, horses, goats and a donkey on the small farm he shares with his wife Carol Schuler. When free time is available, he can most often be found birding the fields and forests of the Willamette Valley.
Randy Comeleo has worked as an ecologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for nearly 35 years where he has studied creatures great and small including North Atlantic right whales and mysid shrimp. Currently he uses GIS to study the effects of climate change on water quality and forest health at the EPA research laboratory in Corvallis. In 2017, Randy and his wife Pam co-founded the Benton County Agriculture and Wildlife Protection Program (AWPP) where he currently serves as a program advisor. The AWPP is an unusual collaboration between farmers, wildlife conservationists, and county government to foster the coexistence of farming and wildlife. Randy has also worked on dairy and horse farms, in the poultry industry, and with colonial nesting seabirds, bald eagles, and neotropical migrant songbirds. Most of his free time is spent advocating for wildlife and on family hikes in the Oregon Coast Range where he has developed a knack for encountering cougars.
Michael Cairns is a watershed ecologist, retired from the Environmental Protection Agency’s research lab in Corvallis. He also has 10 years of experience designing and managing watershed restoration projects in western Oregon. Michael has served on many boards and commissions, including the Independence City Council. He is currently a member of the Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development Board of Directors and the Independence Historic Preservation Commission. He lives in Independence with his wife Gail. He really enjoys his four children and six grand-children, travel, river walking, reading and organic gardening. Michael holds an MS in Fisheries and a BA in Public Policy & Administration.
Other Board Members: Dan Rosenberg, Dave Vesely