Board of Directors
About the Deschutes Land Trust Board of Directors.
The Land Trust's Board of Directors oversees the strategic direction of the organization. Through monthly meetings they assure that the Land Trust is able to conserve land in Central Oregon for today and tomorrow.
2010 Officers of the Board: Rod Bonacker, President; Robert Evans, Vice President; Mary Campbell, Secretary; Mike Emmons, Treasurer.
Tom Atkins is President and Founder of J.T. Atkins &
Company P.C., based in Bend, Oregon. Tom is an award-winning landscape
architect and planner whose work focuses on applying his understanding
of how natural and cultural features shape the site and region in
creating sustainable plans and designs. His firm’s projects include
greenway and trail system plans, park designs, urban spaces, and
conservation developments. Prior to moving to Bend from Seattle, Tom
was on the Board of the Cascade Land Conservancy. He enjoys the
special environments in and around Bend while skiing, biking, canoeing
and birding.
Geoff Barnard
served as Vice-President of The Nature Conservancy for Latin America,
President of the Grand Canyon Trust, and President of the Arboretum at
Flagstaff, a 33-year career in non-profit management. He recently
chaired the board of Minnesota Life College, a school for young adults
with learning disabilities and currently serves on the board of Central
Oregon Resources for Independent Living (CORIL) and the Cascade Chorale
Association. Geoff served in the Peace Corps in Peru and lived in Costa
Rica. He graduated from Stanford University with an MBA and a BS in
Electrical Engineering. When not consulting or volunteering, he can be
found fly fishing, bird watching, hiking, mountain biking, snowshoeing,
or enjoying the grand girls with his wife Diane.
Don Bauhofer is
active in real-estate development as the founder and president of The
Pennbrook Company, founder and CEO of Pennbrook Homes, Inc. and
co-owner of Arrowood Development LLC. Don is also the director and
co-owner of the Pacific Education Corporation, which owns and operates
Pioneer Pacific College; as well as a founder and former owner of
Praxis Medical Group. Don has served on the Board of Trustees for The
Nature Conservancy of Oregon and currently serves on the Board of
Directors for Crabtree & Rahmsdorf Defense Services and Klamath
First Bank. In his spare time he enjoys fishing, duck hunting and
spending time with his family.
Rod Bonacker is
the special projects coordinator for Deschutes and Ochoco National
Forest. He began his Forest Service career in 1974 as a firefighter,
and continues to work in fire suppression as Operations Section Chief
for the Central Oregon Incident Management Team. When he is not working
on Land trust business or fighting fire, Rod fishes, skis, rides his
bike, and manages his rare book business, Black Butte Books.
Mary Campbell has been active in commercial real estate
development and commercial property management for over 25 years in
Oregon. She works for River Bend Limited Partnership and General
Partner, Bill Smith, on the planning and design of the Old Mill
District. Mary is also the Property Manager for Mill District Managers,
managing and overseeing commercial and retail properties in and around
the Old Mill District. Previous board experience includes Arts Central
and Central Oregon Symphony Association. In her spare time, Mary enjoys
gardening, hiking and reading.
Michael Emmons holds a LLM in Taxation from NYU Law School.
Since both Mike and his wife, Gail, grew up in Oregon Mike started his
career in Oregon by joining the Tax Division of Arthur Andersen &
Co in their Portland office. Later, wanting to live overseas, Mike
worked for Arthur Anderson in Hong Kong and Tokyo. In 1995 Mike joined
Andersen Consulting (Accenture today) as head of its world wide tax
group and retired from Accenture in 2001. Mike is currently on the
board of Mentor Corporation, listed on NYSE, and recently retired (term
limits) from the board of Black Butte Ranch. He started flying after
retiring and has a plane hangared at Redmond Airport. Gail and he also
enjoy traveling, golfing, fly fishing and grandchildren, not
necessarily in that order.
Robert Evans is
owner of Robert Evans Company based in Hillsboro, Oregon, specializing
in the construction of commercial and industrial buildings. He is also
a Board Member of the Deschutes Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Prior to
his move to Redmond, Robert held Board positions with the Jackson
Bottom Wetlands Preserve, Portland Rose Festival Association, Hillsboro
Community Foundation, and Hillsboro Sunrise Rotary. Prior to moving to
Central Oregon, Bob and his wife Sharon commercially raised wine grapes
on their farm in Washington County, Oregon. His hobbies include fly
fishing, backcounty exploration, birding, travel, farming, cooking,
wine and photography.
Robert Groves DVM was raised in the Klamath Basin and
currently resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife Carolyn. They are
part of the Portland community and the community at Dant on the Lower
Deschutes River. Bob graduated from Lewis and Clark College in
Biology and attended Washington State University where he earned a
Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine. Bob practiced and lived in Lake
Oswego before retiring. He has served as a Director of
the Oregon Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and on the Board of Oregon Trout (now known as The Freshwater Trust), including several terms as
board president. His interests include the natural world,
conservation, fly-fishing, bird hunting, gardening, music, retriever
training, woodworking, travel and more.
Collins Hemingway is a former senior executive at the
Microsoft Corporation. Collins writes and lectures about business and
technology, has a consultancy on business and marketing, serves as an
executive coach, and enjoys the quality of life afforded by Central
Oregon.

Kim McCarrel retired
as a relationship manager for a large institutional investment manager
and promptly moved to Central Oregon, where she and her husband Steve
had been spending their weekends and vacations for over 15 years. Kim
is an avid horseback trail rider, and has authored two trail guidebooks
for equestrians. She is on the board of Oregon Equestrian Trails and
the Sisters Trails Alliance.
Lauri Powers is a regional autism consultant with the
High Desert Education Service District. A former educator for 18 years
with the Bend-La Pine School District, Lauri help start the Westside
Village Magnet School where she taught K-8 mixed-age students. Lauri
volunteers with Central Oregon Trail Alliance and the Tumalo Langlauff
Club and serves on the board of the Shelvin Commons Association. In her
spare time Lauri enjoys be out with her dog Taj skiing, biking, and
playing tennis.
Bill Rainey resides with his wife, Cindy, in Sisters. He
grew up in Washington and Oregon and earned a BA from Harvard
University and a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.
Bill practiced law for 37 years, most recently with Longs Drug and
including 23 years as general counsel for several publicly traded
companies located in Arizona, Massachusetts, Kansas and California. He
is lifelong physical fitness devotee and an avid hiker and bicyclist
having hiked portions of the Appalachian and Long trails in the East,
climbed several 14ers in the Rockies, and hiked many trails in the
Cascades in Washington and Central Oregon.
Laurence (Larry) Weinberg retired as an Associate Technical
Fellow from the Boeing Company in 2005 and moved to Bend in September
of that year. Prior to his almost 18 years with Boeing, Larry was an
attorney with state government in Montana; and before that he taught
mathematics at the University of Wyoming. In Bend he volunteers with
the Deschutes Land Trust, Central Oregon Humane Society, Tower Theatre,
and Osher Lifelong Leaning Institute (OLLI, formerly the Silver Sage
Society). Larry has eliminated a great many invasive plants from the
Land Trust Indian Ford Meadow and Camp Polk Meadow Preserves, and helps
to lead the Land Trust’s Weed Warrior team in its seemingly never-ending battle with invasive species.