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- Name: Brian
- Surname: Holt
- Location: Half Moon Bay, Ca
- About Me: Brian is a graduate student in the Department of Environmental Leadership at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He is currently employed as a Senior Planner in the Interagency Planning Division for the East Bay Regional Park District in Oakland, Ca, where he is responsible for evaluating land acquisition opportunities and participating in environmental and land use planning processes throughout the two-county East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The East Bay Regional Park District is the largest regional park district in the United States and manages over 100,000 acres primarily as natural habitat and recreational lands. Prior to his current position, Brian worked as a private environmental consultant throughout California and as a land use planner in the Napa Valley. A native Californian, Brian grew up in Bishop, California, in the Owens Valley region of the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains where his parents operated several small businesses ranging from a local bar to a used bookstore. He grew up exploring the designated wilderness and public domain lands that surrounded him and was immersed in the native cultures, water politics, and rural economics that define the region. Brian holds a B.S. in Natural Resources Planning and Interpretation from Humboldt State University, as a student, he worked on trail crews in the Sierra Nevada, as a park ranger on the Northern California Coast, and a research assistant in Death Valley studying potential hydro geologic effects of the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and has served in various leadership roles in the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Environmental Professionals, including the past four years as President. He is a trained whitewater guide, avid bike tourer, and want-to-be naturalist and historian who has explored many of the rivers, trails, and back roads of the American West with his wife Marin, a high school government teacher and director of a "green" academy focused on educating students interested in careers in the environmental profession. Brian has a particular interest in balancing public land use and natural resource management with rural community development and sustainable urban planning.
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