Our Steering Committee
Barbara Boyle – The Sierra Club
Barbara Boyle is Senior Regional Representative, Sierra Club, CA/NV/HI Regional Office. Barbara is a member of the Campaign Steering Committee and a founding member of the coalition. For the past 25 years she has worked in California, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest on a broad range of conservation issues with a particular emphasis on public land campaigns for forest, wilderness and wildlife protection. She served as Regional Director for Sierra Club in CA/NV/HI for over ten years and has lobbied on many federal environmental issues including wilderness, clean air, Superfund, nuclear waste and global warming. Her skills include strategic planning, media work, grassroots organizing, lobbying, mentoring and training staff, public speaking, budget management and fundraising. She is also a member of the coordinating committee for the California Wild Heritage Campaign and supervises several Sierra Club staff in California and Nevada. She has a Masters Degree in social work/community organizing and development.
Charles Little – The Sierra Club
Charles Little is currently on the Steering Committee of the Clavey River Ecosystem Project of which he co-founded. He began working on forest issues in the 1980s as a member and then Chair of the Ancient Forest Subcommittee of the Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club. There he worked for protection of the old growth Headwaters redwood forests, then on the Northwest Forest Plan, and more recently has concentrated on Sierra Nevada forest issues. Mr. Little was a member of the California Ancient Forest Alliance and served on the Steering Committee of the California Wild Heritage Campaign. From 1996 to 2002 he was the Sierra Nevada Program Director for the Tuolumne River Trust.
Barbara Rivenes – Forest Issues Group
Barbara Rivenes serves as Project Chair of the Nevada County Fire Safe Council proposing and vetting various fuel reduction projects in accordance with SFL guidelines. She helps guide the Nevada County CWPP process and articulates the Fire Wise Community protection. Barbara is alos the Board Chair of the Forest Issues Group (FIG), Conservation Chair of the Sierra Nevada Group of the Sierra Club, Ex-com member of the Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Board member of the South Yuba River Citizen's League.
Don Rivenes – Sierra Foothills Audubon Society
Don Rivenes is the Secretary/Treasurer and Acting Executive Director of the Forest Issues Group (FIG). FIG is a group located in Nevada County that acts as a watchdog of Forest Service activities in the Tahoe National Forest and cooperates with Sierra Forest Legacy on projects directly affecting the Sierra Nevada Framework. Don also serves as Conservation Chair of Sierra Foothills Audubon Society representing Placer, Nevada and Yuba counties in land use concerns and forest projects. He also is Chair of the Yuba River Wildlands Campaign working for Nevada County wilderness and Wild and Scenic rivers for the Wilderness bill authored by Senator Barbara Boxer.