Staff Bios

Tom has been working in habitat restoration since 1994, having started in the Bay Area of California and moved to the Yakima Valley in 2005. He worked for and then lead the Yakama Nation Riparian and Wetlands project from 2005 to 2020, and then moved to the Yakama Fisheries program to work on habitat restoration. He currently is part of the lower Yakima River team, and is the leaad for the Wapato Diversion Reconstruction project and also manages habitat restoration projects on the lower Yakima River. Tom received his MS from Central Washington University, in Riparian Ecology, in 2011.