**Team Tamarisk: Cooperating for Results**

**Main Speaker Profiles**

**March 23, 2004**

**Gale Norton**, a lifelong conservationist, public servant and advocate
for bringing common sense solutions to environmental policy, was sworn
in as the 48th Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior in
January 2001. The first woman to head the 154-year-old department,
Norton has made what she calls the Four C\'s the cornerstone of her
tenure: Consultation, Communication, and Cooperation, all in the service
of Conservation. At the heart of the Four C\'s is the belief that for
conservation to be successful, the government must involve the people
who live and work on the land.

To implement the Four C\'s approach, Norton has reached out to states,
tribes, local communities, businesses, conservation organizations, and
private citizens in a variety of ways, including: New Landowner
Incentive and Private Stewardship Grant programs, providing cost-share
grants to states and landowners for wildlife conservation; The
Cooperative Conservation Initiative, a proposal for cost-share grants to
empower states and local landowners to engage in conservation projects
on public and private lands; Strong support of the bipartisan plan to
restore the Florida Everglades; Reduction of long-standing maintenance
backlogs on the National Park Service and the National Wildlife Refuge
System, including a proposed record budget increase for the refuge
system; Support for environmentally sensitive energy production on
public lands, including renewable sources such as geothermal, wind,
biomass and solar.

Norton has made building cooperation and consensus the focus of her
nearly 25-year career. From 1991 to 1999, she served as Attorney General
of Colorado. In that capacity, she represented virtually every agency of
the Colorado state government. She argued cases before the U.S. Supreme
Court and other appellate courts and testified numerous times before
congressional committees. As a negotiator of the \$206 billion national
tobacco settlement, Norton represented Colorado and 45 other states as
part of the largest lawsuit settlement in history. Prior to her election
as Attorney General, Norton served in Washington, D.C. as Associate
Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior, overseeing endangered
species and public lands legal issues for the National Park Service and
the Fish and Wildlife Service. She also worked as Assistant to the
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and, from 1979 to 1983, as a Senior
Attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

Norton graduated magna cum laude from the University of Denver in 1975
and earned her law degree with honors from the same university in 1978.
Before becoming Interior Secretary, Norton was senior counsel at
Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber, P.C. She and her husband, John Hughes, are
avid hikers and outdoor enthusiasts. They reside near Washington, D.C.

**Rebecca W. Watson** is the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals
Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior. She provides policy,
priorities and oversight to the Bureau of Land Management, Minerals
Management Service, and Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement. These three bureaus have responsibility for the production
of about 35 percent of our domestic oil, natural gas and coal that heat
and cool our homes, fuel our cars and trucks, and power our high-tech
economy. The Bureau of Land Management also manages about one-eighth of
the land in the United States for a wide variety of uses benefiting the
public including recreation, grazing, timber production, mining,
wilderness, energy development and wildlife habitat. During her tenure
as Assistant Secretary, Watson has established providing the American
people with the energy they need in an environmentally sound manner and
the preservation of rural western communities and their values as her
highest priorities. She has been an active spokesperson for
administration initiatives to involve local communities in public-land
decisions affecting them and protecting communities from the threat of
wildland fires.

**Dr. Charles \"Chuck\" Lambert** was appointed Deputy Under Secretary
for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Marketing and Regulatory
Programs mission area by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman on
December 2, 2002.

Lambert brings a wealth of legislative, policy development, trade, and
marketing experience to his new position. He served for more than 15
years in various positions with the National Cattlemen\'s Beef
Association (NCBA), most recently as chief economist for that
organization. In that position, Lambert conducted economic analyses on a
wide range of proposed policy changes and market factors impacting the
beef industry. For example, as the U.S. member of a five-country
economic analysis team (which also included representatives from
Australia, Canada, Korea, and New Zealand), Lambert evaluated the
potential impact on the Korean beef industry of opening that market.

While working at NCBA, Lambert managed the policy division of that
organization\'s international markets and live cattle marketing
committees, as well as the U.S./Mexico cross border working group. He
became extremely familiar with issues pertaining to industry structure
and market conduct and performance\--including futures, packer
concentration, captive supplies, country-of-origin labeling, and price
reporting. Lambert managed a number of important anti-dumping and
countervailing duties cases affecting the beef industry; he also worked
on ongoing initiatives to resolve disputes and promote trade with the
European Union.

Lambert served on the USDA/U.S. Trade Representative Agricultural Policy
Advisory Committee for Trade, chaired the Meat Industry Trade Policy
Council, and was an active member of the Agriculture for Trade Promotion
Authority and the Agriculture for China PNTR coalitions. As a member of
the Seattle Round Agricultural Coalition, he participated in the 1999
Seattle Round WTO negotiations. In 2000, he took part in the Cairns
Group Ministerial in Banff, Canada. Lambert also participated in several
\"Five Nation\" conferences involving beef industry leaders from
Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States.

Lambert was raised on a dryland wheat, sorghum, and cow-calf operation
in west central Kansas. He graduated in 1969 from Kansas State
University with a Bachelor of Science degree in animal science. He also
received a Master's degree in animal science with a minor in
agricultural economics from that institution. Following graduation and
active-duty service with the National Guard, Lambert worked on the
family operation until 1979. He received his Ph.D. in economics with a
specialization in agricultural policy and international trade from
Kansas State University in 1987.

Lambert has been a member and active participant in a number of
professional economic organizations and economic research institutes
throughout his career. He has been affiliated with the American
Agricultural Economics Association and the Central and Western
Agricultural Economics Association. Lambert was also a member of USDA\'s
cost of production standards review board and NCBA\'s standardized
performance analysis initiative, as well as that organization\'s beef
demand analysis

**Jim Tate**, Science Advisor to Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton,
is a life long conservationist, with a particularly avid interest in
birds and their habitats. Tate's academic background in natural
resources includes his Bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois
University, a Master's from the University of the Pacific, and a Ph.D.
from the University of Nebraska. Fresh out of college, he received an
appointment as Assistant Director, Laboratory of Ornithology, and
Associate Professor of Natural Resources at Cornell University. Later,
he worked as Manager of Environmental Affairs for Atlantic Richfield
Coal Company, Denver, Colorado. Tate was permitting manager for the U.S.
Office of Surface mining in Eastern Tennessee. After moving to
Washington, D.C. in 1982, he served as an Endangered Species Wildlife
Biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Following his tenure
with the Service, Tate worked for eight years as professional staff to
the U.S. Senate Committees on Environment and Public Works, and Energy
and Natural Resources. Prior to his current position, he worked for the
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (a Department of
Energy facility) in Washington, D.C. and Idaho Falls, Idaho, in
2000-2001.

Jim Tate was born in central Wisconsin and raised in a small town in
Northern Illinois: he is married to Lin Schmale, and has a son, Brant,
who is an architect in Denver.

**Scott J. Cameron** is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Performance and
Management at the Department of the Interior. He was appointed to that
position in August 2001. His responsibilities include helping Secretary
Norton implement President Bush's Management Agenda throughout the
Department. Immediately prior to joining the Administration, Scott
Cameron was Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs for CHEP. CHEP
is the global leader in materials handling, operating in 38 countries,
and operating a pool of 149 million pallets and 29 million containers.

Previously, Cameron represented the Governor of the state of California
in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he dealt with Congress and federal
Executive Branch agencies on issues involving environmental, energy, and
natural resource policy. He also authored the National Governors
Association policies on low-level radioactive waste and invasive
species. Before joining Governor Wilson, Cameron was Director of
Conservation Policy at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in
Washington, D.C. He managed its Congressional relations, and published a
well-respected annual series evaluating federal natural resource
agencies. Earlier, Cameron was Deputy Chief of the Interior Branch in
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), part of the Executive Office
of the President. He oversaw all activities of the Interior
Department\'s Fish and Wildlife Service, and Geological Survey. Cameron
also had the OMB‑wide staff lead on endangered species, wetlands, and
regulatory takings. In an earlier assignment at OMB, he oversaw the
Environmental Protection Agency\'s Office of Water, including oversight
of all activity under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.

Scott Cameron began his career in 1979 as a Presidential Management
Intern in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington, D.C.,
concentrating on wetlands policy and fishery economics. After earning a
Bachelor\'s degree in biology from Dartmouth College, he earned an MBA
from Cornell University. At Cornell, he concentrated in natural resource
economics, particularly energy and water resources. He was raised in New
York City, is married, and has a son.

**John H. Brock** is professor of applied biological science at Arizona
State University East. He was raised on a farm in North-Central Kansas
and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture (1966) and a
Master of Science (1968) degree in Botany from Fort Hays State
University, Hays, Kansas. He was employed by Texas A&M University
Agricultural Experiment Station in Lubbock, Vernon, and College Station,
Texas from 1968-1977 where he conducted research on the response of
landscape to control techniques for honey mesquite, which also included
revegetation of heavily disturbed sites. In 1977, Brock joined the
faculty at Arizona State University, and completed a Ph.D. in range
science from Texas A&M in 1978. Brock is interested and has worked in
the areas of ecology and management of invasive plants that become
dominant on sites and competitive with the native flora and can be a
degrading factor in landscapes. During his career he has completed two
sabbatical projects, one in England and the other in the Czech Republic,
where he was involved in invasive plant research. At the 2003 meeting of
the Society for Range Management, Brock was presented an award for
"Outstanding Achievement." He is married to an elementary school music
teacher named Cathleen and has a son, Chris, who is a biology teacher
and a daughter, Amy, who is a nutritionist and registered dietician.
Brock's interests include hiking, hunting and fishing, stained glass
art, woodworking and travel.

**David Brunner** is Chief Operating Officer for the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation. He joined NFFW in March of 2000. Brunner came to
the foundation from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was
the principal superintendent of the botanical garden and responsible for
the development and maintenance of its collections, infrastructure,
research programs, budget, and administration. Brunner also served as a
consultant to Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden and the Claremont
Colleges in the development and production of a CD-ROM on the native and
naturalized trees of California, as well as to the National Forest
Service to conduct an ecological inventory of montane meadows in the
transverse and peninsular ranges of California. Brunner's prior
experience includes a decade at the Missouri Botanical Garden where he
served as administrative curator and traveled world-wide to conduct
botanical research and acquire botanical specimens. He also spent three
years in Paraguay working to help establish that country's National
Museum of Natural History and to continue its National Botanical
Inventory. Brunner was educated at the University of Arizona in Tucson
where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in horticulture and
botany.

**David Bubenheim** is a research scientist in the ecosystems science
and technology branch at the NASA Ames Research Center. He joined the
Center in 1988 following the completion of the following: post-doctoral
appointment at Purdue University; a Ph.D. in plant physiology from Utah
State University; a master of science degree from Virginia Polytechnical
University; and a bachelor of science degree from Delaware Valley
College of Science and Agriculture.

Bubenheim has been responsible for the R&D program in controlled
ecological life support system development at Ames Research Center. His
studies have included growing wheat on the Russian Space Station Mir and
the conduct of Mars analog studies with plant-based life support systems
at the South Pole. He is the recipient of several NASA achievement
awards and has received R&D Magazine's Best New Technology Award. He is
also a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America in Half Moon Bay,
California and is a little league baseball coach.

**Tim Carlson** is currently the Executive Director for the Tamarisk
Coalition, a non-profit alliance of diverse stakeholders throughout the
West working to restore riparian lands impacted by invasive plant
species. This work includes coordinating with organizations, landowners,
and state and federal agencies in the development of long-term
management and funding strategies for tamarisk control. He is currently
working closely with Interior and USDA scientists and policy staff,
universities, and Congress to develop strategic approaches to tamarisk
(saltcedar) control and the reestablishment of native vegetation to
improve water resources, wildlife habitat, and biodiversity.

Carlson received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and
Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering at Arizona State
University and is a registered professional engineer in Colorado. During
more than thirty years experience on local, regional, and international
environmental issues, Carlson has become known for his abilities to gain
acceptance by the public and regulatory agencies of solutions for
difficult and controversial problems. Prior to 2001, Carlson was the
President of Sensible Environmental Solutions, a non-profit research
company working with Department of Energy national laboratories to
develop reasonable solutions to their radioactive and hazardous waste
problems. In this capacity, Carlson also helped perform peer reviews for
national laboratories and participated in university and high school
education programs through WERC, a Consortium for Environmental
Education & Technology Development. One component of his work experience
that he is especially proud of is his work in Russia on developing
environmental research opportunities for displaced engineers and
scientists at the end of the Cold War.

**Culver J. "Jack" DeLoach** is a research entomologist and team leader
of biological control of weeds group, grassland soil and water research
laboratory in Temple, Texas. He has a Bachelor of Science (1954) in
agricultural education and a Master of Science (1960) in entomology from
Auburn University. DeLoach has a Ph.D. in entomology from North Carolina
State University in Raleigh in 1964. He worked 1 ½ years in Japan on
rice insects and poison ivy in 1964 and since 1965 has been with USDA
ARS in various capacities including since 1987 working on saltcedar. He
also worked 13 years on rangeland weeds, 6 years in Missouri on cole
crop insects, and 2 ½ years in Argentina on aquatic weeds.

**Mallory L. Dimmitt** serves as the San Miguel & Delores Rivers Project
Director for the Nature Conservancy of Colorado, where she is
responsible for creating and maintaining effective partnerships which
further the protection of and abate the threats to two watersheds.
Dimmitt has worked on preserves on the San Miguel in a variety of
positions since joining the Nature Conservancy in 1998. She is the
President of the Board of Trustees of the Tamarisk Coalition, as well as
a San Miguel County Commission-appointed member of the San Miguel Weed
Board. As a member of the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Pinhead
Institute, she helps schoolchildren monitor plants, birds, and insects
in riparian plots throughout the San Miguel watershed using protocols
designed by the Smithsonian Institute's Conservation Research Center in
Virginia with input from the Nature Conservancy. She holds a Bachelor of
Science degree in Natural Resources from the University of the South in
Sewanee, Tennessee.

**Debra E. Hughes** is the Executive Director of a non-profit 501C 3
corporation for the New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts
(NMACD) where she has served for 8 years. Hughes also represents NMACD
as a lobbyist at the state and federal level working to bring more
dollars to help New Mexico with its critical natural resource issues.
She traveled to Washington, D.C., to testify for Senator Domenici and
Bingaman on a saltcedar. Presently Hughes is a member of the Governor's
Blue Ribbon Task force on water and also the Governor's Saltcedar Task
force. She has served on numerous committees for the state engineer and
the New Mexico Interstate Streams Commission.

Hughes chaired the Pecos River Regional Planning committee for 7 years
and is the Sec-Treasurer of the Pecos River Native Riparian Restoration
Organization. She, her husband, and 3 sons own and operate a ranch in
the Guadalupe Mountains and have a native plant collection license.

**Mary E. Kelly** joined Environmental Defense in October, 2002 as a
senior attorney and program director for U.S./Mexico Border Initiatives.
In that position, she manages Environmental Defense's work on
trans-boundary water, wildlife, and other issues in the Ecosystems
Program. She also coordinates Environmental Defense's Texas water policy
work. From 1989 to October, 2002, Kelly was executive director of the
Texas Center for Policy Studies, a non-profit research organization
working on a variety of environmental issues. From 1986 to 2001, she was
an associate partner or counsel in the firm of Henry, Lowerre, &
Frederick and its predecessors. She obtained her law degree from the
University of Texas in 1985.

**Eric M. Lane** is the State Weed Coordinator for the State of
Colorado. As state weed coordinator for the past 7 years, Lane has
worked to improve state and federal agency statutes, policies, and
actions regarding weed management, assist local government weed
managers, implement the state\'s strategic plan to stop the spread of
noxious weeds, and facilitate the development of weed management areas
across the state to protect natural and agricultural systems. In
cooperation with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Lane has
recently begun work to implement Colorado Governor Owens\' 10 year
strategic plan on the comprehensive management of tamarisk and the
coordinated restoration of Colorado\'s native riparian ecosystems.

As a former field ornithologist, Lane conducted studies of migratory
passerines in a variety of environments including the White Mountains of
New England, the Sierras, the southern Rockies, and boreal forests of
Canada. It was through this research that he became interested in the
effects of invasive plants on wildlife communities. This led Lane to an
active interest in how science influences (or does not) policy and
management of natural resources and to my present position. He gas also
spent 4 years each on the Boards of Directors for the Colorado Native
Plant Society and the Colorado Weed Management Association and
participated actively in the Western Society for Weed Science. Eric Lane
has a Master's of Science in natural resource policy from University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor (1996) and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from
Swarthmore College (1992).

**Jan Lowrey** is the Executive Director of the Cache Creek Conservancy
and the manager of Cache Creek Nature Preserve. Lowrey is a graduate of
the University of California, Berkeley. His professional background
includes over 20-years experience in agriculture. The Lowrey family's
ranch is located in Western Yolo county's Capay Valley in northern
California. He is a founding member of the Cache Creek Conservancy Board
of Directors, and works with other community organizations on water and
land-use planning issues.

Lowry is a fourth generation land owner along Cache Creek and has many
years experience in project management, including stream bank
restoration and erosion control using conventional and experimental
techniques. He has overseen the development and implementation of the
Cache Creek tamarisk and Arundo control project since its inception in
2001, and administers other wildlife habitat projects for the
Conservancy. Lowry is a member of the California Invasive Plant Council,
Team Arundo del Norte and works with the Salt Cedar Consortium.

**Frannie Miller** is the Noxious Weed Coordinator, New Mexico
Department of Agriculture. Frannie Miller received a Bachelor of Science
and Master's of Science from New Mexico State University in Animal
Science and Agricultural Economics. She was raised on a ranch in
Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. She now lives on a dairy just
south of Albuquerque in Veguita, NM. She has served as the New Mexico
Department of Agriculture's noxious weed coordinator for the past five
years. During the past two years, she has gotten to work closely with
the state's saltcedar (tamarisk) control program. She and her husband,
Tom, recently had a daughter, Elida, who in her first 7 months has
already been to enough saltcedar meetings to qualify as an expert.

**John M. Randall** is Acting Executive Director of The Nature
Conservancy's (TNC) Invasive Species Initiative. He is based in and has
an unpaid appointment with the Department of Vegetable Crops & Weed
Science at the University of California, Davis. He has worked for TNC
since 1991 when he completed his Ph.D. in ecology at UC Davis with a
project on the biology and control of the non-native invader, bull
thistle *(Cirsium vulgare)* in Yosemite Valley. He received a Master of
Science in marine science from Louisiana State University in 1986.

**Mark Renz** is the extension weed specialist at New Mexico State
University. His current duties include education, research, and
development of management programs for wildland and agricultural weed
species. He was born and raised in the Bay Area of California and has a
Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California Davis. His
research and work interests include studying the biology, ecology, and
control of weeds (especially herbaceous perennials), developing
long-term weed management plans that maximize effectiveness while
minimizing costs, and integrating management and restoration plans. He
is an avid cyclist and mountain biker who rides his bike to work
everyday and he is also interested in wine making, beer brewing,
running, and backpacking.

**Thomas John Stohlgren** is the Science Program Director with the
National Institute of Invasive Species Science, Fort Collins Science
Center, U.S. Geological Survey. He has been with the U.S. Department of
the Interior for 24 years. He is also a senior scientist at the Natural
Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University and an affiliate
faculty member at CSU in the Department of Forest, Rangeland, and
Watershed Stewardship and the graduate degree program in ecology.
Stohlgren's research interests include assessing landscape-scale,
regional and national patterns and effects of invasive non-natives on
natural ecosystems and developing GIS-based, predictive spatial and
temporal ecological models to guide management of public lands. He
enjoys teaching courses in ecology and training graduate students and
considers his "real" job to be coaching little league baseball.

**Rosindo Trevino III** is the State Conservationist for the USDA
Natural Resources Conservation Service in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He
has served in that capacity since March, 1995. Trevino was a natural
resources manager on the Conservation Planning Division and NRCS
wetlands team at the national headquarters as the agency's National
Hispanic Employment Program Manager. He served in that that capacity for
three years before accepting a position as a natural resources manager.

Trevino was born in San Antonio, Texas and moved with his family to
Sabinas, a farming and ranching community on Coauhila, Mexico until the
family returned to San Antonio when he was 12-years-old. Trevino has a
Bachelor of Science Degree in agronomy, (1975), from Texas A&I in
Kingsville, Texas. From 1967-1971, Trevino served in the U.S. Army. He
is married to Norma Linda, and they have two daughters, Carissa Linda
and Gabriela Linda.

**Erika Zavaleta** is an assistant professor in the department of
environmental studies at the University of California. She has a Ph.D.
in biological sciences from Stanford University. Zavaleta has published
extensively in journals, media, and books on invasive species and
related ecological and economic issues. She is a current holder (through
2006) of a National Science Foundation Grant and has won many academic
grants and awards. Her teaching experience includes a graduate research
seminar on ecology and society. She has been a presenter and
spokesperson on tamarisk and other invasive species issues.