Board of Directors
Ted Lennon, President - LDD Desert Development, Inc.
President of LDD Desert Development, Inc., CEO of Reserve Realty, President and CEO of Stone Eagle LLC, and President and CEO of SilverRock LLC.
Buford Crites, Vice President/Secretary – City of Palm Desert
Former Mayor and council member of the City of Palm Desert and Emeriti Professor of Communication at College of the Desert
Fred Bell, Treasurer – Building Industry Association
Executive Director, Building Industry Association Desert Chapter
Joan Taylor, Director at Large
Conservation Activist
Sue Adams – The Living Desert, retired
Scientific illustrator and naturalist, former Curator of Education at The Living Desert for twenty years
Bill Havert – Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy
Executive Director of Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy
Kay Hazen – Kay Hazen & Company
Coachella Valley based Public/Government Affairs consultant
Lin Juniper – Southern California Edison
Public Affairs Manager
Tom Kirk – City of La Quinta
Councilmember & Chairman of Redevelopment Agency, Vice President of Development/CA, Drummond Real Estate and former Executive Director, Salton Sea Authority
M. Connor Limont – Limont Financial Services
Investment Advisor for Limont Financial Services and Commissioner of Palm Desert Planning Commission
Paul Selzer, Esq., Attorney at Law
Attorney-at-law specializing in endangered species and habitat matters, former president of the Desert Bar Association, current member of the California State Bar Court monitoring and counseling attorneys who have been disciplined by the State Bar
Ruth Watling - Watling Company, partner
Partner in Watling Company, desert horticulturist-landscape designer, member of Pinyon Community Council, County Service Area 30 and National Monument Advisory Board and
former Garden Curator at The Living Desert
Katie Barrows, Liaison – Coachella Valley Association of Governments
Director of Environmental Resources
Jim Foote, Liaison - Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
Monument Manager
Advisory Council
