Board of Directors
PRC's board members have an enormous commitment to the organization and a deep love for rivers.
Bob Anderson
(Helena, MT and Lake Tahoe, CA)
Bob Anderson is an energy consultant with emphasis on renewable resources and conservation in the electric utility sector in the West. He served on Montana's elected Public Service Commission from 1991-2002. Author of Beartooth Country, a human and natural history of Montana's Beartooth Mountains, Bob enjoys river running, hiking, climbing, botany, fishing, photography, biking, music, frisbees, and hot springs. He has been president of the Montana Wilderness Association and executive director of the Great Yellowstone Coalition.
Joe Bauwens
(Ketchum, ID)
Joe Bauwens has served as an employee and/or officer or board member for several for-profit and non-profit companies, including the Rand Corporation. He loves creeks and rivers. He retired from a pharmaceutical company of which he was a Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer.
David Bayles, M.A., Secretary
(Eugene, OR)
David Bayles has worked with PRC nearly since our inception in 1987. PRC's former Executive Director, David is a national leader in the conservation community on aquatic conservation generally, and has particular expertise on the effects of land management on aquatic systems and the public policy setting for the watershed and aquatic species conservation. He is the co-author of several scientific articles on aquatic species conservation, watershed conservation and ecosystem management and co-authored the successful endangered species petition for coho salmon. He was a participant in Keystone Policy Dialogue on Ecosystem Management, and of the award-winning Policy Dialogue Group on Wild and Scenic Rivers.
Mardel Chinburg
(Eugene, OR)
Mardel Chinburg served as a member of the Washington D.C. legislative staff to former Congressman Jim Weaver, Oregon Fourth Congressional District from 1979-1984. Since then, Mardel has worked as a researcher and trial assistant for the law firm of Johnson, Clifton, Larson & Schaller, P.C. She is a past chair of the Lane County chapter of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters and a former board member of the statewide OLCV organization. She continues to be politically active in Oregon. In addition, Mardel supports a wide variety of local organizations dedicated to art, music, education and youth programs. Mardel is an avid cyclist, hiker and skier.
Rand Eads, Vice Chair
(Lafayette, OR)
Art Johnson
(Eugene, OR)
Art Johnson is a trial lawyer, the senior shareholder in the firm of Johnson, Clifton, Larson & Schaller, P.C. Formerly the president of the Oregon State Bar and Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, he has served as a member of the Land Conservation and Development Commission, the Oregon Public Officials Compensation Commission, chaired the Willamette River Greenway Committee, and has served on many committees and boards relating to the rule of law, and to social and environmental issues. He continues to enjoy family, friends, rivers, wilderness, and wetlands.
John J. Kaib, MD, FACEP, Treasurer
(Portland, OR)
John Kaib is a semi-retired Emergency Physician. He also has a degree in Forestry. Love of the outdoors brought him to Oregon decades ago where he has enjoyed a cabin on Odell Lake that has provided access to skiing, fly fishing, birding and sailing. He and his wife, Sherold, have been members of many environmental organizations over the years.
Karl Konecny, Chair
(Glide, OR) 
Karl Konecny is an engineer and founding partner of Northwest Motion Products. His love of rivers and wild lands has its roots in a lifetime of fishing, backpacking, and canoeing.
John McGlenn
(Seattle, WA)
John McGlenn is a native of Montana but has spent most of his life in Washington. Since serving as a line officer in the U.S. Navy he has been a consulting engineer on heavy civil and structural projects like wastewater treatment plants, primarily for public clients. Early and heavy involvement in fishing and hunting in Montana and Washington have lead to years of participation in fish and wildlife conservation. He has served on several boards including Izaak Walton League, Washington Environmental Council, Western Rivers Conservancy, Intermountain West Joint Venture and Wild Salmon Center. He was a founding board member and past president of The Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition and continues to serve on that board. John served two terms on Washington’s Fish & Wildlife Commission and was instrumental in the development of Washington’s Wild Salmonid Policy. He and wife Ronni raised their family of three in Bellevue, WA. All five McGlenns are Washington Huskies.
Wayne Minshall, PhD
(Pocatello, ID)
Wayne Minshall is a professor of ecology at Idaho State University. His research interests include community dynamics and stream ecosystem structure and function. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Distinguished Researcher Award from Idaho State University, the Outstanding Scientist of the Northwest Award from the Northwest Scientific Association, and the Award of Excellence from the North American Benthological Society.
Jim Ratzlaff
(Roseburg, OR)
Jim Ratzlaff lives on the North Umpqua River where he and his wife operate a livestock ranch. His business activities include continued service as an officer and director of Capital Research and Management Company, an international investment organization which manages the American Funds group of mutual funds.
Jack Rockefeller, J.D., MPH
(Geyserville, CA)
Jack Rockefeller is a California native, coming from a family with deep generational roots in Southern Oregon. He has been a lifelong philanthropic supporter of environmental protection and restoration efforts in the Western U.S. For much of his professional career, Jack has managed health based academic research organizations, including the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Studies in Stockholm, and the Regional Cancer Foundation in San Francisco. He is currently Director of Social Venture Initiatives at the Health Access arm of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation. In his spare time he is completing doctoral research on pharmacological safety at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. Jack lives at the Northern tip of his favorite wine producing region, the Alexander Valley of Northern California.
Maria Dolores (Lola) Wesson
(Washington, D.C.)
Maria Dolores Wesson’s interests are in international environmental cooperation and capacity building, the application of science to environmental policy, and mitigation and adaptation strategies to our changing climate. She currently works for the US Environmental Protection Agency on US-Mexico border issues in Washington DC. Dolores has served on advisory boards and committees on environmental issues, and enjoys working and traveled in the North American West. Dolores is a graduate of the University of California San Diego’s Warren College, and the University of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs, College of Ocean and Fisheries Science.
Board Advisors
Roger Hamilton (Eugene, OR) was appointed to the Oregon Public Utility Commission by Governor Roberts in 1992. Previously, he was Oregon Rivers Council’s Community and Rivers Director, a Klamath County Commissioner, and Oregon Parks and Recreation Commissioner. He has been a rancher and farmer in Klamath County since 1971.
Sharon Kramer (Arcata, CA) is a senior associate ecologist with H.T. Harvey & Associates and a faculty associate in the department of fisheries at Humboldt State University.
Jim Lichatowich (Portland, OR) has worked on Pacific salmon issues as a researcher, manager, and scientific adviser for 30 years. He specializes in evaluation of the ecology and status of salmon and steelhead populations and the development of restoration plans. His book, Salmon Without Rivers is a history of the salmon crisis up to approximately 1980.
George Miller (San Francisco, CA) was Senior Vice President and Director of the Capital Research and Management Company and President of The Income Fund of America until his retirement in 1996. Prior to joining Capital in 1975, he was Director of Research for the American Express Investment Management Company.
Jim Van Loan (Steamboat, OR) owns and operates the Steamboat Inn on the North Umpqua River in Douglas County, Oregon. He is a former Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner.
