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President
Nick Ervin as been exploring, studying and working to conserve the California deserts for nearly 30 years. He first became active in conservation when he gave testimony on the original California Desert Plan in 1978. A member of the Sierra Club since 1977, he served as chair of that organization’s Desert subcommittee and its Ancient Forest group. He was Conservation Chair of the San Diego-Imperial County chapter of the Sierra Club on two occasions for a total of nearly four years, and co-founded the chapter’s population subcommittee. He spent eight years as one of the principal organizers in San Diego for the California Desert Protection Act of 1994. He has lobbied in Washington, D.C. for both the Sierra Club and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to two terms on the BLM's California Desert District Advisory Council (1995 through 2000). With the Desert Protective Council, Nick has served on the Board for nearly 15 years and has been President twice. He has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California for many years, and also worked as a professional conservationist from 2000 to 2004 for a non-profit working to save the mountain and dry tropical forests of the Andes in South America.
Contact: Nick Ervin
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Vice-President
A resident of San Diego County since 1970, Geoffrey has been involved in a variety of efforts devoted to environmental preservation and education for over two decades, leading to his current position as Executive Director of the Escondido Creek Conservancy. He has served since 1990 as Chairperson of the Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve Citizens Advisory Committee, and also sits on the executive committee of the San Diego Conservation Resources Network, the board of the San Diego Tracking Team, and is founding coordinator of the San Diego Environmental Leader Network. With the San Diego chapter of the Sierra Club, he held numerous volunteer positions beginning in 1982, including extensive work on the California Desert Protection Act. Professional conservation positions have included Conservation Program Coordinator for the Sierra Club, San Diego Chapter 2000 – 2003, Staff Public Affairs Specialist & Volunteer Coordinator for the USDA Forest Service Cleveland National Forest, and Imperial County Projects Director with our own organization from 2003 – 2005.
In addition to his “paid stint” with DPC, Geoffrey has had a long involvement with our organization and currently serves as Vice President. Drawing on his years in the computer industry, Geoffrey provides DPC many valuable technical services, including list management and web host setup. During a 20-year career as an applications software engineer, Geoffrey worked for such companies as Johnson Controls, Logicon, Litton Data Systems, Scientific-Atlanta, Starkland Systems, Stellcom Technologies and The ComputerSmith. Geoffrey holds a BA in Biology from University of California San Diego, John Muir College (1977), and an MA in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from the University of San Diego (2005). He is married to Camille Armstrong, a kindergarten public school teacher in Valley Center.
Contact: Geoffrey D. Smith
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Secretary
Martha is a native San Diegan. She studied visual arts and sociology
at UCSD. She has been employed by the San Diego Chapter of the
Sierra Club for the past four years and has been active on the Land
Use and Desert Committees there. Most recently Martha has accepted a
job as full time San Diego Canyons Campaign conservation staff. Her
hobbies are native gardening, hiking, cooking, and camping. She has
travelled extensively in desert regions throughout Utah, Arizona, New
Mexico and Southern California. Currently, Martha resides in La
Mesa, California, with her husband, Paul.
Contact: Martha Bertles
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Imperial County Projects and Conservation Coordinator
Terry Weiner has resided in San Diego since 1979, when she moved from Santa Barbara to take a job as Social Services Director with the Pritikin Health and Longevity Program. Since then, she has had a variety of positions in the health services, restaurant and hospitality fields. She has a BA in Psychology from Westfield State College in Massachusetts, where she grew up. In the mid-1990s, Terry became involved with the Land Use and Conservation committees of the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club, became the chair of the off-road vehicle issues subcommittee, and served as Land Use Committee Chair in the late 1990s. She served as the Conservation Coordinator of the Desert Protective Council from 2000- 2003 and took over the position of Imperial County Projects Coordinator in September 2005. Terry’s avocation is botany. She has studied botany at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, San Diego Mesa College, and Palomar College in Carlsbad. She was trained as a “parabotanist” through the San Diego Natural History Museum in 2003. She currently is an active member of the California Native Plant Society, and is the president of the “Friends of University Heights Point Open Space,” which is part of the Sierra Club’s San Diego Canyons Coalition. She was one of the founding members of the San Diego Environmental Leaders Network and of the “Alliance for Responsible Recreation." From 2001-2005, she served on the California Off Highway Vehicle Division’s Stakeholder Roundtable and is currently involved with a state-wide coalition of activists to help craft OHV Program renewal legislation which will provide funding for protection of natural and cultural resources and promote balanced recreation in California. She is single and resides in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego.
Contact: Terry Weiner
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