Team Members
John Cobourn
Water Resources Specialist, UNR Cooperative Extension Office
Coburn’s area of expertise is water resources. He spent the past 15 years working with BMPs. Most of his career has been devoted to stopping pollution and cleaning up lakes (not only Lake Tahoe). Cobourn works with natural resource managers to integrate watershed management in Lake Tahoe and the Carson River.
He organizes BMPs trainings, writes articles about pollution and water clarity, and is engaged in BMPs research in the Tahoe Basin.
Eric Winford
Environmental scientist, Nevada Tahoe Conservation District
Winford is a part of a Conservation Planning, Backyard Conservation team. he helps with evaluations, informs residents how to implement BMPs and works on helping with BMPs education. He participates in BMP trainings and developing North Lake Tahoe Demonstration Garden built to educate homeowners about BMPs.
Eben Swain
Resource Conservationist, Tahoe Resource Conservation District
He arrived in the Lake Tahoe Basin in the winter of 2005 and began working with the Tahoe Resource Conservation District (TRCD) to conduct BMP site evaluations and provide technical assistance to property owners on the California side of the Basin. As director for the BMP Retrofit program at the district, his work entails obtaining funding for project implementation, coordinating with other agencies to disseminate information related to natural resource conservation within the Basin and working closely with homeowners, contractors and other community members to increase awareness of local environmental issues.
Tim Hagan
Principal Planner and the Erosion Control Program Manager for the Environmental Improvement Program, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
For the past eight years Hagan has been involved with the TRPA. He has worked as a professional soils scientist and hydrologist for various public agencies since 1991. In 1996 he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Humboldt University in natural resource planning and interpretation with a double major in forestry and soil science and three minor areas of study in biology, hydrology and geology. Additionally, Hagan has two years of post-graduate work in forestry and soil science. He is an avid whitewater kayaker, skier and surfer. He has lived in Lake Tahoe since 1998.
Dennis Olivier
Public Affairs and Spokesman, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
Olivier has been in Lake Tahoe for six months. He is the public affairs/media spokesperson for TRPA. He moved to Lake Tahoe, he said, because he wanted to live someplace beautiful. He is a former journalist and public relations executive for infrastructure contractors and labor unions in California. He is also the author of two popular outdoor recreation/nature guide books to Northern California’s wild places and is working on a third book.
Bruce W. Lindahl
Owner and founder of BMP Construction Inc.
Lindahl has been Tahoe resident for past 25 years. He has a bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin and 17 years experience as chief engineer in the resort industry. Lindahl invented H2Stone Pervious Concrete Infiltration Strip System.
He received TRPA’s “Best of Basin Award 2000” for best residential BMP retro-fit and best commercial renovation.
BMP Construction Inc, a company founded and owned by Lindhal, is a TRPA Certified Evaluator and has performed over 300 independent BMP site evaluations and implemented more than 600 BMPs since 2004.
Karen Hannafious
South Lake Tahoe
Hannafious has been a Tahoe resident for eight years now. She and her husband own a several properties at the lake. In regards to BMPs their concern is their property at the Zephyr Cove. Hannafious has a degree in business. She likes skiing and outdoor activities.
Paul Reardon
South Lake Tahoe
Reardon has been a property owner in South Lake Tahoe since 1992. He lives here with wife, Erin, and dog, Guinness. Reardon’s first exposure to Lake Tahoe was as a child, while taking family vacations. During these vacations they all enjoyed the great outdoors and gained a respect for everything the Tahoe Basin provided.
Reardon works for UPS (United Parcel Service) in South Lake Tahoe and have been with them for 27 years.
Reardon is participating in this project because of his deep concern for Lake Tahoe’s future. He looks forward to meeting with agencies regulating policies in Tahoe and he hopes to gain valuable insight and answers to the many BMP-related issues.
Harmon Overmire
Tahoe City
Overmire has been a property owner at Lake Tahoe since 1972. He’s been a west-shore, full-time resident since 2000.
Prior to living in Tahoe, Overmire was in San Jose, California, and worked for United Technologies Corporation for about 30 years as Material Manager.
In 2001 he and his wife bought five acres in Elk Grove, California, and built a home there. They have about four acres of grapes, Malbec and Petit Syrah, and since then Overmire has been also a wine maker now.
During the winter he skis Monday thru Friday at North Star Ski Resort for exercise. In the summer, he plays golf and goes fishing in Tahoe and many other lakes around here.
He is participating in the project because his BMPs, certified in 2000, are no longer valid for the agencies. He doesn’t understand why he has to invest more money in something that he had already done.
Larry Bowland
South Lake Tahoe
Larry Bowland was born in Los Angeles, but moved to Lake Tahoe as a child and hasn’t left town since. He’s been Tahoe resident for 48 years now.
There’s nothing that Bowland doesn’t like or doesn’t appreciate here. He loves the lake and enjoys the mountains. In the summertime, Larry and his wife, Connie, like to hike in the mountains. In the wintertime, they go backcountry skiing and snowshoeing. Bowland welcomes everybody in Tahoe, as long as they respect the beauty of the lake.
Bowland thinks BMPs are financially overwhelming and would like to get answers to some questions he has about the purpose of these policies.
Rich Breuner
Tahoe City
Breuner has spent one-third of his life on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe. As a visitor and a local on and off, he has conducted every aspect of his life here. His escapades, mostly off the beaten path in a wilderness, he considered private but now finds it more fun to share. He’s interested to hear what others enjoy about Lake Tahoe.
Breuner is in a reale state business.
He wants to join this conversation because he cares about the lake and wants to participate in a community conversation.
Read more about Breuner’s ideas on his Tahoe blog, WestShore Story.com
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