Bill Templin – President
Following a career in hydrology with the U.S. Geological Survey, Bill accepted a 3 year, grant-funded position as the Watershed Coordinator for the North Fork American River Watershed. As the Watershed Coordinator, and an avid fisherman, Bill monitored the watersheds populations of “aquatic vertebrate assemblages” using wild trout as “indicators of the watershed health”. Bill was instrumental in forming the Upper American River Foundation (UARF). Bill is now working full time with the State of California as an Environmental Scientist, and he is actively involved as a Board Member on several non-profit watershed and sportsman’s organizations in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada.
Matt Setty – Vice President Matt is our newest board member. He is a hydrologist and land owner in the watershed up near Iowa Hill with special interests in sediment, erosion reduction, and minimizing mining impacts on the watershed (a photo and more bio information on Matt will be available soon).
John Gaffney – Treasurer
Conflence of the North and Middle Forks of the American River
John is a retired state government attorney who has seen much of this watershed from horseback. He has been with UARF from it’s beginning in 2006 and was the key person who helped us get our 501c3 nonprofit status. John tracks our finances and is our councilor on all issues related to activities that we can and can’t do within our 501c3 limitations. John lives in the Cool area near the confluence of the North Fork and Middle Forks of the American River (shown in the photo to the left).
Dan Bacher – Media Director
Dan was one of the first set of UARF Board Members and is very interested in the health of the watershed and it’s fisheries. Dan is the Editor of the Fish Sniffer Magazine and is very active in Northern California environmental issues.
Drea Traeumer – Secretary
Drea is a consulting hydrologist with expertise in WEPP runoff and erosion predictive modeling, TMDL development, and surface water quality technical investigations.. Her interest in an obviously sediment laden tributary to the North Fork American River near Colfax brought Drea to the UARF, and she has since been writing proposals to help develop funding to get on the ground sediment source control projects implemented in our watershed and funding to refill the Watershed Coordinator position.