Cascadia Wild Board of Directors
Chris Abercrombie, Vice-Chairperson
Chris Abercrombie grew up roaming the foothills and canyons of California where he learned to fish, camp and hunt from his family. Chris joined Cascadia Wild in 2011 with the intent of studying ethnobotany and ancestral skills. He became intrigued with tracking and through the intensive study program eventually became a trip leader with the Wolverine Tracking Project. When not working with Cascadia Wild Chris can be found working on robots, shooting his bow or brewing up a batch of beer. Dan Thompson, Board member Erin Law, Treasurer Hobson Lane, Board member
Jenny Bedell-Stiles, Board member Maggie Starr, Board member Mike Little, Board member 
Paul Schertz, Secretary Paul Schertz has been tracking with Cascadia Wild for many years and has served as a trip leader for the Wolverine Tracking Project since 2006. Paul is licensed as a professional engineer and has served on several boards including the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association and was the founding President of the Texas Solar Energy Industries Association. He is the past vice-president of Solar Kinetics, Inc. and now works for Portland Energy Conservation, Inc. 
Teri Lysak, Chairperson
Teri has been teaching for Cascadia Wild and various primitive skills gatherings for over 5 years. She holds a MS in Forest Science, and previous to joining Cascadia Wild worked for the Washington Dept of Natural Resources providing forestry assistance to small private landowners and as a field forester, and seasonally for the Forest Service doing forest surveying, firefighting, and as a wildlife technician. Her teaching experience comes from 2 years of teaching high school science with the Peace Corps in Fiji. Teri loves wandering through the woods looking at trees, living as simply as possible in her small cabin in the woods, and bringing together the various people in the environmental community. |
