President, Leland Mora is the owner and manager of Humboldt Auction Yard in Fortuna, CA, which was started in 1948 and been under family ownership since 1968. Lee is also the founder and manager of Humboldt Grassfed Beef selling locally produced beef to independent retailers both locally and regionally. Lee’s interest in NRLT is to help owners of our area’s remaining open space and rangeland to keep their properties in sustainable production.

1st Vice President, Dennis Rael moved to Humboldt County in 1978 from the Netherlands. He opened Los Bagels Company, Inc. in 1984, which now has three locations in Humboldt Co. He has been involved in numerous business and community organizations and has worked extensively in Central America as well as in Southern Mexico, where he interfaces with small communities helping them to market and sell sustainable tropical hardwood from native forests. Dennis joined the board of NRLT because he thinks the organization is unique and extremely valuable, bringing together diverse members of our community with common values and desire to protect both our land and economy.

Secretary, Martha Spencer originally moved to Humboldt County in 1976 to attend Humboldt State University and graduated with a degree in Sociology and Social Work and a Masters of Science in Natural Resource Planning. She started working for Humboldt County in 1986 in the Planning Division but then followed her wayward husband in 1990 around the states of California (including work in Glenn, Trinity and Siskiyou County planning departments), Washington and Oregon, finally returning to Humboldt County in 2002. She is presently working in the Resource Lands Division of the County Planning Department which includes administering the Williamson Act and Conservation Easement Support programs. She has been an active 4H leader for eight years in three states and was on the school board for four years in Oregon.

Treasurer, Blake Alexandre is the owner and operator of Alexandre Dairy and EcoDairy Organic Farm on 2,500 acres in Del Norte County, California. He is currently a member of the California Farm Bureau, Western United Dairymen, Northwest Milk Marketing Association, Ducks Unlimited, California Waterfowl Association, California Cattlemen's Association, and the Milk Producer Council.

Greg Blomstrom is a founding member and senior associate of Baldwin, Blomstrom, Wilkinson & Associates. He has 30 years experience in the practice of forestry. Greg has been involved in forest inventory, forest management planning, environmental document preparation, timber sale layout and timber sale administration. He has published articles on forest planning in the Journal of Forestry and Evergreen and is the recipient of the Northwest Regional Award for excellence in Indian Forestry awarded by the Intertribal Timber Council. Greg has extensive experience in writing environmental documents including acting as the main author of the "Weaverville Community Fuel Reduction PTEIR."

Bill Bragg is an accomplished attorney with over 30 years of litigation and consulting experience, and is currently a partner with Bragg, Perlmen, Russ, Stunich and Eads in Eureka. Specifically he has knowledge in the area of land and contract disputes, and has extensive experience working with administrative and enforcement agencies. He is an avid bird watcher, hiker and boater, and you can often find him hiking Redwood Creek or paddling up the Mad River slough on his days off.

Richard Dorn is a real estate broker at Benchmark Realty Group and is a timber land owner.  He has sold real estate in Humboldt County for almost twenty years. Previous to this career he operated a small mill, cutting salvage redwood on his family ranch.  He still manages the family timber property that his grandfather and great uncle homesteaded in 1898.  He is extremely involved in reforestation and stream restoration on the property. Richard is also a California general contractor and is the Eureka trustee for College of the Redwoods. He graduated from CR, attended the London School of Economics and finished with a degree from U.C. Berkeley.  His favorite hobby is traveling and trekking in foreign lands. Richard is concerned and focused on the changing landscape of our working lands.

Yvonne Everett is Professor of Environmental & Natural Resources Planning at Humboldt State University. Her research interests include natural resources policy and planning and participatory and collaborative research methods in land use and hazard management. She earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley with an emphasis in Landscape Ecology.

Jill Hackett is owner and operator of Ferndale Farms. She and her husband, Steve, own and run the 4,000-acre Howe Creek Ranch which has been in their family for nearly a century, providing meat and forest products to a growing population. Their forestry practices, cemented by a conservation easement, create corridors of mature forest and healthy watersheds that support salmon, spotted owls and other wildlife. Their work in developing the California Rangeland Water Quality Management Plan is credited with injecting incentives and cooperation into ranch planning and program implementation, and with engaging environmental groups, industry groups and federal and state government agencies effectively. The plan now involves more than 1 million acres of private California ranchland.

Rees Hughes grew up in the flatlands of rural Kansas but has lived in Humboldt County for the past twenty-five years.  After a career in higher education, Rees has most recently co-edited the two volume Pacific Crest Trailside Reader and has taken an active role in the development of the Trail Stewards program to promote volunteer involvement in the maintenance of local trails. He joined the Board because he believes that NRLT offers a model for finding the common ground between preservation, protection, and sustainable and economically viable land use.

Mandy Marquez

Fred Neighbor is an attorney and musician. He graduated from UC Berkeley and received an MA from Humboldt State in Theater Arts. He has served as a member of the Humboldt County fish and Game Advisory Committee and on the Board of Governors for California Trout, Inc. As an attorney, he has been active in land use issues affecting North Coast rivers and Humboldt Bay.

Jason Pelletier