Officers and Committees
State Officers
President
Steven Yeager
Originally from Philadelphia, Steven moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1994 and has been rooted in Eugene ever since. He is Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs at Mountain Rose Herbs. Steven Yeager has been exploring Oregon’s wild places and studying the Pacific Northwest’s native flora since 1995, botanizing, wildcrafting, and preparing herbal preparations for himself and his family. Steven is also an herbal educator and former co-owner of the Columbines School of Botanical Studies. He believes cultivating a relationship with plants and the natural world is vital for a healthy existence on this planet. He also serves on the serves as a board member to the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) and is currently participating with many of AHPA’s committees. He also serves on the Board for the AHPA Foundation for Education and Research on Botanicals, United Plant Savers, as well the Native Plant Society of Oregon and NPSO Emerald Chapter. When not at work or volunteering with various non-profits Steven enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, hiking, camping, wildcrafting, and botanizing in the Cascade Mountains.
Immediate Past President
Dan Luoma
Dan has been a member of NPSO since the early 1980’s. He has previously served as State President, Vice-President, and Director-at-Large. His academic training is in ecological plant geography. Dan is a retired professor, having specialized in forest mycology with the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University. Dan has taught mycology at OSU and a course on forest mycology through the Siskiyou Field Institute and Southern Oregon University. He continues to pursue research on the diversity of truffles and mushrooms in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. He was a charter member and second president of the Corvallis Chapter and is currently chapter Treasurer.
Vice-President
Judi Sanders
Judi Sanders (Corvallis) grew up near Roseburg . Receiving her Bachelor’s degree from the UofO, she graduate work in California and spent much of her professional career there. After retiring from the Communication Department at Cal Poly Pomona, she returned to Oregon in 2005 and subsequently taught Communication at OSU for 10 years. Her lifelong love affair with wildflowers drew her to NPSO in 2006. Judi has previously served as NPSO State President, Vice-President, and as an at-large board member as well as Corvallis Chapter President. She has been the coordinator of Native Plant Appreciation Week/Month since about 2007 and has served on various other NPSO committees and on the Oregon Invasive Species Council.
Secretary
Kim Brown
Kim Brown (Portland) is originally from Colorado, but has lived in the PNW for the past decade. She has her Masters degree in Environmental Science (2021) from Portland State University where she studied the effects of the invasive green crab on Oregon’s coastal eelgrass. Currently, she is a Cartographer for the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Outside of work, Kim collects and studies Oregon’s native bees and their plant associates through OSU’s Master Melittologist program and has converted her yard from grass to a native oasis. Kim has previously served as NPSO Secretary and is Member at Large for the Portland Chapter.
Treasurer
Sean Cawley
(Siskiyou) Seán immigrated from California in 2019. He spent a year working in the Worldwide Organization of Organic Farms program in Ireland where he lived and worked on various organic farms including goat dairy farms. He has a master’s degree in business and a bachelor of science degree in environmental business. He is a certified master gardener. He recently completed the Land Steward Program. He is passionate about enhancing biodiversity in gardens, companion planting, and using native plants whenever possible. He prefers to grow plants for consumption, herbal health, and soil/planet health. If he can’t eat it or use it, he doesn’t want to waste water growing it.
He stepped down as treasurer of the Jackson County Master Gardener’s Association this past year. He had served on the board since 2020 and as treasurer for the past two years. As treasurer he moved the financial practices of the association to paperless operation. It now utilizes QuickBooks online (cash accounting), online banking and check writing including making all expense requests digital. The organization is still accepting checks, but their system also supports PayPal payments. While not a certified public accountant, he worked for twelve years as the assistant to the chief financial officer of a non-profit university in San Francisco. He has technical experience with Microsoft Office including Excel and most Adobe products. He prefers using the Apple computer platform but can “muddle” his way through a personal computer. He is a veteran having served sixteen years in the Navy, where he trained in electronics. He volunteers at the White City Veteran’s Administration Rehabilitation Center in Jackson County by teaching veterans how to grow food for sustainable living. The Center utilizes the Nutritionists at the Veteran’s Administration to devise recipes and diets to augment the various foods harvested.
Directors
TO 06/2025
TO 06/2026
Jason Clinch, Dave Garcia, Alexis Larsen
Dick O’Donnell, Marshall Doak, Megan Westby
Committees & Chairs
- Budgets and Grants
Dan Luoma - Conservation
Dick O’Donnell - Friends Of The Oregon Flora Project
Linda Hardison - Legislative
Dave Garcia - Membership
Willow Elliot - NPSO Fellows
Lisa Blackburn - Rare & Endangered Plants
Jason Clinch
Publications
- Bulletin Editor
Faye Streier - Webmaster
Tom Pratum
Chapter Presidents
- Cheahmill (McMinnville)
Jeanie Taylor - Corvallis (Corvallis)
Esther McEvoy - Emerald (Eugene)
Jenny Lippert - High Desert (Bend)
Tom Wainwright - Klamath Basin (Klamath Falls)
Erin Rentz - Portland (Portland)
Willow Elliott - Siskiyou (Ashland/Medford)
Rachel Werling - South Coast (Coos/Curry County)
Gail Grogan-Perrotti - Umpqua Valley (Roseburg)
Rod Trotter - Willamette Valley (Salem)
John Savage - William Cusick (La Grande)
Susan Geer
Fellows
Jason Clinch
Gail Baker
Tanya Harvey
David H. Wagner
Lisa Blackburn
Linda Ann Vorobik
Barbara Mumblo
Frances Stilwell
Esther McEvoy
Bruce Newhouse
Cindy Talbott Roche
Jim Duncan
Kareen Sturgeon
Paul Slichter
Dan Luoma
Jan and Dave Dobak
Stu Garrett
Frank Callahan
Joan Fosback, Mildred Theile, Lois Hopkins, Mary Carlson
Barbara Robinson
More stories about our NPSO Fellows here.