Board of Directors

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.  

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.

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.

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.

Dougal Williams