Our Board Members

Mike Berry is a retired Senior Environmental Scientist after a thirty year career with California Department of Fish and Wildlife and California Department of Water Resources. Mike has a fisheries degree form Shasta College, and a BS in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University. During Mike’s 30 year career, he has been responsible for reviewing timber harvest plans, managing habitat for wild trout and anadromous salmon and steelhead, recommending regulation changes and monitoring effects of management and regulation changes. Mike has also supervised staff that wrote, reviewed and enforced environmental documents and regulations. Mike has been extensively involved in meadow restoration, side channel restoration, shaded fuel break planning and implementation, Clear Creek and Cow Creek restoration, irrigation efficiency, and many other projects beneficial for water use, fire safety, and Fish and Wildlife enhancement. Mike has lived most of his life in Northern California including living in Trinidad, Hayfork, and Cottonwood. Mike’s hobbies include photography, fishing, hunting, kayaking, biking and many other outdoor activities.

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In 2010, Dennis retired after 35 years as an Environmental Scientist with the State Water Resources Control Board and the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. While at the Regional Board’s Redding office, he was involved with providing technical and financial assistance (via state and federal grants) to a number of locally directed watershed management programs throughout the northern part of the Sacramento River basin. Currently, he is a director on the nonprofit Sacramento River Watershed Program and continues to participate with several north state watershed groups and Integrated Regional Water Management programs. Prior to Water Board employment, he received his BS in Fisheries Biology and MS in Aquatic Entomology from Michigan State University and PhD in Aquatic Ecology from Univ. of CA, Davis. In addition to his passion for resource conservation Dennis very much enjoys hunting and fishing in the north regions of California.

Lois graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry in 1976. She moved to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (now CalFire) and spent 15 years as a Forest Practice Inspector in the Redwood Region before going to the Sierra Cascade Region.  Retirement, however, was short lived; Kaufman continued her tireless work in forestry becoming the Executive Director of the California Tree Farm Program of the American Tree Farm System (ATFS). She and her husband are tree farmers themselves and it was a natural fit to give back to the landowners and the profession of forestry that gave her so much.  She also visits legislators to advocate for forest landowners in California. Lois joined the WSRCD Board in 2019.

Mike Berry is a retired Senior Environmental Scientist who has a fisheries degree form Shasta College, and a BS in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University. During Mike’s 30 year career, he has been responsible for reviewing timber harvest plans, managing habitat for wild trout and anadromous salmon and steelhead, recommending regulation changes and monitoring effects of management and regulation changes. Mike has also supervised staff that wrote, reviewed and enforced environmental documents and regulations. Mike has been extensively involved in meadow restoration, side channel restoration, shaded fuel break planning and implementation, Clear Creek and Cow Creek restoration, irrigation efficiency, and many other projects beneficial for water use, fire safety, and Fish and Wildlife enhancement. Mike has lived most of his life in Northern California including living in Trinidad, Hayfork, and Cottonwood. Mike’s hobbies include photography, fishing, hunting, kayaking, biking and many other outdoor activities.

John was raised in Weaverville, attending Weaverville elementary school and graduating from Trinity High school in 1971. He attended Shasta College receiving an AA in Agriculture and Diesel Technology and went on and worked at Shasta College in various departments of the physical plant division from 1974 until retirement in 2013, ultimately serving as Transportation Director and interim Physical Plant Director. Prior to that, John worked in the logging industry in Trinity County and Calaveras County. He currently owns and operates the Arrow B Ranch in the Igo Ono area, primarily raising beef cattle and hay crops, but also including all the typical ancillary animals of a farm, chickens, horses, donkeys, dogs and cats. John’s hobbies include recreational gold mining and gardening and he is a director on the Igo Ono Community Services District board.

Charlie spent a 30-year federal career mostly with the US Fish and Wildlife Service where he worked on fisheries monitoring and river restoration. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Fresno State University, and performed his Fisheries graduate work at Humboldt State University in Arcata (now Cal Poly Humboldt). Charlie is working toward his 23rd gallon of lifetime blood and platelet donations. He enjoys fishing, boating, camping, and hunting birds over his German Wirehaired Pointer.