Board Members

Terry became executive director of SOFRC in March of 2019 after briefly serving as board president. As a forester and silviculturist for 33 years, she worked for the USFS Forest Service on the Mt. Hood, Willamette, and Umpqua national forests in a variety of positions including a short-term assignment as regional silviculturist, before transferring to the Bureau of Land Management in Medford in 2003.

Marko is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Lomakatsi Restoration Project and has 26 years of experience working in forestry and ecosystem restoration, from the ground up. He has worked throughout six western states and a variety of ecological communities, most extensively in the forests and watersheds of southern Oregon and northern California.

Chris represents the local Fire Chiefs Association on the SOFRC board and, through them, communicates with both Josephine and Jackson counties. An Ashland native, Chris has worked at Ashland Fire and Rescue since 2002, where he coordinated National Fire Plan fire safety grants for 6 years and co-authored the 2004 Ashland Community Wildfire Protection Plan and 2005 Jackson County Integrated Fire Plan.

Jim retired from the Oregon Department of Forestry as their fire program analyst in 2005. During his 29 years with ODF, he worked in forest management, forest practices, and fire as both a forester and a manager.

Janelle is the executive director of the Applegate Partnership and Watershed Council. She began her career as an Oregon State Police, Fish & Wildlife Division Oregon Plan trooper and went on to be a consultant on wetland delineations and a fish passage project manager.

Darren serves as the Southwest Oregon Conservation Director for The Nature Conservancy and has worked in the region since 1987. He collaborated on the Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project, guiding the Conservancy’s partnership role there and in the Rogue Forest Partners.

Greg was appointed Vice President for Finance and Administration at Southern Oregon University (SOU) in December 2017, where he oversees eight SOU departments: Business Services, Budget Office, Human Resources, Facilities Management and Planning, Campus Public Safety, Information Technology, Service Center and University Housing.

Jim retired from the Rogue Workforce Partnership as Executive Director in 2022. As the region’s federal and state-authorized Local Workforce Development Board, this non-profit organization catalyzed and created dynamic workforce solutions with leaders from business, K-12 education, higher education, workforce, labor, economic development, human services, healthcare, and other community partners.