Meet our Steering committee members

The Steering Committee’s collective voice provides a guiding vision and supports a collaborative structure to advance integrated floodplain management. Their primary responsibility is to coordinate and support the efforts of SLS.

Please email info@farmfishflood.org if you would like to get in contact with the Steering Committee.

 
 
 
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C.K. Eidem

Regional Biologist, Ducks Unlimited

 
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Kirk Lakey

Regional Habitat Program Assistant Manager, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

I have almost 40 years’ of experience working in the natural resource field, which has included some time with Natural Resource Conservation Service (formerly the Soil Conservation Service) implementing the Food Security Act of 1985 in the Palouse as well as working with ranchers through the Forest Service in the Okanagan and the Bureau of Land Management in the Mohave Desert. I have always had an interest in farming and ranching and working with landowners to conserve farm and rangeland while improving habitat and overall productivity.

 

Tara Luckie

Owner of Luckie Farms

 

Linda Lyshall, PhD

Co-Chair

Executive Director, Snohomish Conservation District

 
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Linda Neunzig

Division Manager, Agriculture Office, Snohomish County

 
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Erik Stockdale

Surface Water Management Planning Manager, Snohomish County

 
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Andy Werkhoven

Owner, Werkhoven Dairy

 
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Daryl Williams

Co-Chair

Environmental Consultant, Tulalip Tribes

I have worked for the Tulalip Tribes since 1977 working to protect and restore our salmon resources. I have also served with farmers on several committees over the years and help manage a partnership organization with a dairy farm, to manage an anaerobic digester. I recognize the need to grow foods locally and that salmon are also a food resource that is on the road toward extinction. If we are to recover salmon and maintain a farming industry, we need to find a way for farmers and fish organizations to work together to help solve each other’s problems and that is what the Sustainable Lands Strategy is all about.

 
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In loving memory of Terry Williams, Tulalip Tribes

 

The roles and responsibilities of the Steering Committee include:

  • Guiding the process

  • Hosting the partners

  • Representing and advocating for the SLS

  • Collaborating with partners as well as external entities

  • Harmonizing the efforts of partners

  • Providing credibility and endorsing proposals

The Sustainable Lands Strategy is made up of multiple partners working together, led by the Steering Committee. Partners include American Farmland Trust, Ducks Unlimited, Forterra, NOAA Restoration Center & National Marine Fisheries Service, PCC Farmland Trust, Pilchuck Audubon, Puget Sound Partnership, Snohomish Conservation District, Snohomish County, Snohomish County Farm Bureau, Stillaguamish Tribe, The Nature Conservancy, Tulalip Tribes, WA Dept. of Agriculture, WA Dept. of Ecology, WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, and others.