John Zentner is a restoration ecologist with almost 3 decades of experience in the field. He was the first restoration ecologist hired by the National Park Service and served as the Enhancement Program manager for the State Coastal Conservancy before forming Zentner and Zentner, a consulting firm specializing in wetlands and restoration in 1986. John also helped start The Restoration Trust, a non-profit focused on community-based restoration of natural habitats.  He lives in Contra Costa County and his wife and two sons (go Mats!) are generally supportive of his time in the mud but not prone to join him for the pre-dawn bird surveys.

Glen first learned about California’s plants and wildlife in the chaparral and deserts of southern California.  That inspired him to get a degree in biology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and then go on to graduate school in botany at UC Davis.  He took a few years off to help found the California Natural Diversity Data Base, participate in creation of the Cosumnes, Cold Canyon, Nipomo Dunes, and Carrizo Plains reserves, and do a chapter on riparian biogeography for Warner & Hendrix’s California Riparian Systems before completing his PhD with a dissertation on climatic influence on plant physiognomy across world biomes.

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David Moser is an environmental and natural resources attorney, and a founding partner of the firm Ebbin Moser + Skaggs LLP in San Francisco.  Prior to forming EM+S he practiced for 15 years with the 300-attorney firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen where he was a Partner and head of the Natural Resources Practice.  His law practice focuses on endangered species, wetlands, water pollution, environmental compliance, and site remediation issues, both in California and throughout the western states.  He works closely with property developers, energy companies, utilities, resource users, universities, manufacturers, and local governments in identifying and achieving compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. 

Dave has worked some 30 years in ecological restoration as a professional botanist, including the last 20 years with Zentner & Zentner, a restoration firm. He helped found the Restoration Trust, was a founder and served as President for the Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge Association, and served as President of the California Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration. Dave has volunteered many hundreds of hours as a naturalist and cultural demonstrator. A consistent thread that runs thru 50 years of Dave's work, school, play, volunteering and art, is the vital importance of nature-based culture in reconnecting people with plants and place thru stewardship of wild useful plants.

David Kelley, president of Kelley & Associates Environmental Sciences, Inc., in Winters, California, is a plant and soil scientist who has been involved in ecological assessment and habitat restoration for over thirty years.  He picked up degrees in zoology (B.S 1970), and botany (M.S. 1974) at Texas Tech University, and plant physiology and soil science (Ph.Cand. 1977) at the University of California, Davis, on his way to starting his consulting firm in 1981 in Davis.  Dave brings to the Board of The Restoration Trust a real and long-standing interest in the conservation and management of natural resources.

Phyllis has worked as a wetland field biologist monitoring wetlands in San Francisco Bay for over thirty years and has written two wetland field guides for plant identification. She has also worked as an educator, as a founder of the Environmental Forum of Marin, and as an instructor at both the college of Marin and the University of California Extension program. She currently serves as Series Editor for the Natural History Series for the University of California Press and has authored several books including California’s Wild Gardens (1997). Phyllis is the co-founder of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), which has protected over 40% of Marin’s farm land through conservation easements that run in perpetuity. She currently serves on the MALT Board.