Board of Directors


The Northwest Ecological Research Institute is entirely a volunteer organization. It has no employees and it does not pay the members of its Board of Directors. Its projects are carried out by independent contractors and volunteers.

Ashley Smithers, President, Habitat Restoration Biologist, WDFW, November 2026

Teresa DeLorenzo, Vice President / Treasurer November 2024

Charlotte Corkran, Vice President / Secretary, Naturalist, November 2025

Lee Bryan, Assistant Secretary, Student PSU, November 2025

Candace Fallon, Grants Committee Chair, Senior Endangered Species Conservation Biologist, Xerces Society, November 2026

Emilie Blevins, Senior Conservation Biologist, Xerces Society, November 2024

Eric Butler, Riparian Specialist, Clackamas River Basin Council, November 2026

James Holley, Independent wildlife consultant, November 2025

Honorary Lifetime Board Members: Paul Dickinson, Jeffrey Kee, and Mirth Walker