The Elkhorn Slough Foundation board of directors announced on April 21 that its second-ever executive director will be Taylor Honrath. Honrath has guided ESF's fundraising efforts for the past seven years, including the recently completed Elkhorn Forever conservation campaign which raised more than $13 million for land acquisition and habitat restoration in the Elkhorn Slough watershed.
"We are pleased to welcome Taylor to this new role," board president Susan Matcham said in a press release. "He has been an outstanding deputy director, and we’re confident that he will excel as executive director."
Prior to joining ESF, Honrath worked in nonprofit management and fundraising, led legislative advocacy for renewable energy policy in California, and worked on a variety of state and national political campaigns.
Honrath succeeds ESF's long-serving founding executive director Mark Silberstein, who is retiring and transitioning into an advisory role. Silberstein has led the foundation for four decades, since its inception in 1983.
Two years after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and California Department of Fish and Wildlife established the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, the nonprofit launched to support the 1,700-acre reserve.
Since then, the nonprofit has played a role in working with local agricultural producers to improve farming practices, manage runoff, conduct research, conserve habitat and species, and acquire land through easements. Today, ESF protects more than 4,200 acres of rare habitat, including oak woodlands, coastal prairie, maritime chaparral, and wetlands.
“I’m honored to be selected by the board to lead the organization at such a pivotal moment in its history," Honrath said. "I’m excited to work with my colleagues at ESF and our partners at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve to increase the scope and visibility of our conservation efforts.”
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I am greatly disturbed at how the Elkhorrn slough has been violated with bad science, cutting down hundreds of Eucalyptus trees and turning them into bio chard with a smile.
They are creating the same circumstances that started the greatest fire in the history of Angel Island upon the bad advice of Native Plant Society. Angel Island: A Case Study | hillsconservationhttps://www.hillsconservationnetwork.org › angel-island-...As they cut down those trees and plant grasses they heat up the Slough. They use herbicides to kill the trunks and create smoke turning those most precious trees into charcoal.How can that help keep our area and sanctuary cool? Their environmental Impact statement never once used the strategies and advice of one of top fire scientist in the Nation to facilitate an unbiased report on these trees.
They may be non native but right now we need these trees. The two thousand trees they and our county Supervisors and Senator Laird has already cut down two thousand of these giants.
Tragically over 2,000 eucalyptus trees in this area have been cut down and chipped and many pounds of herbicides have been utilized to kill their trunks.
The environmental consequences of that have been ignored.
2000 large eucalyptus trees as with any large tree represents one ton of global greenhouse gases absorbed including 10 lbs of pollution and 260 lb of oxygen a year per tree . That represents over 2,000 tons of CO2 and harmful greenhouse gases that could have been absorbed every year by those trees that are no longer being able to do their job.
Those trees are no longer available to create 521000 pounds of oxygen a year, and 300 million gallons of water vapor a year which contributes to the cooling of the air , the Bay, moisture on the ground and inland rainfall as far away as Africa!
Mr Church and the Board of Supervisors and the Directors at the Elkhorn slough are endangering us all with further gigantic storms and wildfires in our area as they continue to misinform the public on the true cause of fires .The link I provided to you of Jack Cohen's fire prevention video does not mention trees as the cause of fires. Surprisingly it is pine needles and dry leaves which he demonstrates in the video. http://www.firewise.org/wildfire-preparedness/wui-home-ignition-research/the-jack-cohen-files.aspx?sso=0
They are creating the same circumstance that was created at Angel Island by the advice given by the Native Plant Society. to cut down all the Eucalyptus trees and when they did so the grasses grew, the winds became stronger because there was no wind breaks as trees provide and that started an unstoppable fire.
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