Our Board of Directors

 

Advisory Board Susan Penhale

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A graduate of Clover Park Technical College and Pacific Lutheran University, Susan has been a volunteer with Puget Creek Restoration Society since 2006. She is active on the Fundraising/Grant-writing Committee and in various organization activities. Her priorities as the Board President are to continue fostering a sense of stewardship in the community and expanding public awareness of Puget Creek Restoration Society's mission and goals.


Treasurer Steve Becksteadtreas

Steve Beckstead is was born in Tacoma and has lived here most of his life. He is the owner of Beckstead Janitorial Service, and has a BA from Brigham Young University.


Advisory Board Member Sherry Graham

 

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Sherry was a chiropractor for 25 years and is now in the Environmental Science and Technology Progam at Clover Park Technical College. She has been an avid hiker and cross-country skier for 21 years, as well as a scuba diver and plans to be part of the PCRS dive team. She has also been a birder for eight years will help out on the bird surveys.

 


Secretary Larry Yother

A native born Californian that has been interested in environmental causes for all of my life.  Transplanted from California to the Pacific Northwest by the US Navy when the ship I was stationed on moved from Naval Air Station – Alameda to Naval Station – Bremerton.  I served 22 years in the naval service and retired in 2004.  I started back to school at the University of Washington in 2008 and presently earning my BA degree in Business Administration Accounting.  I got interested in the Puget Creek Restoration Society when I enrolled in a Non-Profit Governance class.  Currently married with two children and living in Port Orchard.

 President Scott Hansen

 

Scott was born and raised in Washington state. HeScott places a very high value on the environment and health of streams, gulches, green areas, near shore, and wetlands in the Commencement Bay/ Pierce County area. He has a Bachelors Degree in Wildlife Ecology from The Evergreen State College, a Masters Degree in Environment and Community from Antioch University Seattle, a Masters Degree in Project Management from City University Tacoma, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Education (Training and Performance Improvement) from Capella University. Scott has been coordinating restoration projects and studying the eelgrass/nearshore area of the Puget Creek watershed for the last 12 years.


Advisory Board Member Edward S. WinskillEdward

 

Edward Winskill has a J.D. from Willamette University and specializes in the areas of personal injury, insurance defense, and general commercial litigation. He was named Washington Defense Trial Lawyers’ Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2003.

 


Advisory Board Member Mike Corsini

Mike was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He moved to the Tacoma area with his wife and daughter in 1995. Mike became interested and concerned about the environment in 1999 when he teamed up with Scott Hansen. As Executive Director of the Tacoma Neighborhood Networks Center, Mike collaborated with Scott on a state grant-funded project that facilitated individuals with disabilities becoming involved in urban stream riparian restoration at Puget Creek. Involvement in this project introduced Mike to the importance of the environment in the quality of life for any community, as well as revealed to him the abuse that the environment has suffered through unbridled development. Mike now understands the need and importance for all members of the community—including individuals with disabilities—to participate in protecting natural habitat from further abuse/degradation and in restoring habitat to its natural state. With two master degrees, i.e., in the areas of education and public action, Mike is committed to using his learning and experience in helping to restore and preserve the environment. As a person of faith, Mike believes the environment is a trust to humankind over which they are obligated to exercise responsible stewardship. 

 


Vice President Mike Webb

 

Michael Webb (“Mike”) has over 30 years experience in marine chemistry, environmental analysis, site assessment, and soil and water remediation technology that has roots in his passion ocean recreational pursuits (surfing, sailing, diving).  Growing up on the Pacific Coast, Mike developed a life plan to study and protect the oceans.  Professionally that plan led him to analytical chemistry and a career in environmental consulting and environmental laboratory management.  On a personal level though Mike has continuously directed his volunteer and public service activities toward stewardship for beaches and the ocean. Over the last decade while living in Tacoma, WA, he has provided technical assistance as a volunteer to Citizens for a Healthy Bay, Surfrider Foundation, South Sound Chapter (SSC), and citizen action initiatives at the Tacoma pierce Count Health Department.  Mike has an MS in Chemistry obtained in an interdisciplinary oceanography-geochemistry program at the University of Hawaii.  He has recently joined the Board of Puget Creek Restoration Society (PCRS) and assists with water testing programs at both SSC and PCRS, hoping to integrate them into a citizen-scientist sampling program along Ruston Way that will incorporate monitoring both the upland stream and stormwater of the watershed as well as the recreational water quality in the near-shore marine environment affected by the watershed.

 

 

Puget Creek Restoration Society

702 Broadway, Suite 101

Tacoma, WA 98402

(253) 779-8890

Email: pugetcreek@yahoo.com