The people who do the work.

Marisol came to Canopy from BLM where she'd watched too many parcels be sold off, leased out, or compromised. She founded the organization with $128k in pledged donations and a thirty-acre option on a Tillamook clearcut. Twenty-three years later she's still running it.

Before Canopy, Jamal was at the Western Rivers Conservancy and before that a commercial broker. He knows how a timber REIT prices a parcel and how to beat them on terms when we can't beat them on price. Lives in Eugene, drives the I-5 corridor more than he should.

Tillamook & Lincoln Counties

Maren has personally planted over 80,000 trees. She runs the spring and fall planting crews on the Oregon coast — the slow rotation that puts seedlings in the ground at the right week, not the fastest week. The 87% survival rate at year five is, in large part, her work.

Lila came to Canopy from a postdoc at the University of Idaho's College of Natural Resources. Her work on tribal fire knowledge and adaptive forest management shapes our entire stewardship playbook. She is also the only person on staff who can identify a Western larch from 200 yards.

Theo trained at Lewis & Clark Law and spent six years at Stoel Rives before going in-house with us. The conservation easement template he wrote in 2019 is now the regional default. He's the reason our parcels are quiet on the title abstract for a hundred years.

Lupe took a 40% pay cut to come build the education program in 2017. The two-week residential field school and the eighteen-month paid fellowship are both her design. Forty-three of our alums now work in conservation across the Pacific Northwest.