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Barry Jacobs, board chair, has been a member of the Orange County  NC Board of Commissioners since 1998.  Now in his third term, he has served as Chair and Vice-chair a total of six times.  Mr. Jacobs also served on the North Carolina Commission on Smart Growth, Growth Management and Development.  He has worked as the Caretaker at Moorefields, a house and grounds on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978, as a self-employed journalist, primarily covering sports but also history, environment, and politics for 30 years, and is the author of several books.  He holds a Bachelors’ Degree in history from Duke University.


Bob Freimark, board secretary, is Senior Policy Analyst of the Pacific Northwest Region of The Wilderness Society. He holds a Masters of Public Administration in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of Montana. Mr. Freimark has worked for The Wilderness Society in Washington and Oregon since 1986. Prior work includes forest management positions in Oregon, Washington, and Montana with the U.S. Forest Service and the Washington Department of Natural Resources as well as positions with the Trust for Public Land and EPA.  He has been a leader in Northwest conservation campaigns to preserve ancient forests and wild lands.
 



Bracken Burns has been a Commissioner in Washington County, PA, since 1996. He was Chair of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania in 2005 and served as its President in 2005. He was the Director of Washington County Emergency Medical Services from 1974-1996. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Social Sciences, from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and attended the University of Pittsburgh studying Public and International Affairs.

 

 

Howard Kessler is currently serving as the Chair of Wakulla County FL Board of County Commissioners; he joined the board in 2002. He earned the Advanced County Commissioner Certification from the Florida Association of Counties. He has been a member of NACo’s Environment, Energy and Land Use Committee since 2007.

He is also a volunteer doctor at the Neighborhood Health Clinic and the Children’s Medical Services Clinic, both in Tallahassee. IAnd he serves as Chairman of Wilderness Coast Library, which covers Wakulla, Franklin, and Jefferson counties.
 

Pete Sorenson is a Lane County Commissioner in Eugene, Oregon. He’s been a farm worker, security guard, sportswriter, but in the last 30 years he’s been a legislative assistant to a United States Representative (Congressman Jim Weaver of Oregon), a special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture, a prosecutor, adjunct law professor, environmental lawyer and an Oregon State Senator. He was elected commissioner in 1996 and has not an opponent since.

 



 

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