Mountain Communities Conference 2005: Speakers

Tim Duane

Tim Duane is the author of Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West (University of California Press, 1999) and associate professor of environmental planning and policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He grew up in the Sierra Nevada and has worked on growth management issues in mountain communities for a quarter-century. He is a leading expert on environmental policy, land use planning, water and power system planning, electricity regulation, and public land and resource management.

Professor Duane served as a special consultant to the $7 million Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project in 1993–1996 and as a member of the California Spotted Owl Federal Advisory Committee in 1997. He completed an external evaluation of the Packard Foundation's $291 million Conserving California Landscapes Initiative in 2001-2003.