The CSPA Board of Directors are:
Bill Jennings, Chairman/Executive Director
Fighting to protect fisheries and water quality for over 25 years, Bill has Chaired CSPA since 1988 and served as Deltakeeper between 1995 and 2005. He was a founder and Chairman of the Committee to Save the Mokelumne. Bill has received numerous acknowledgments including the International Conservation Award from the Federation of Fly Fishers, the Director’s Achievement Award from the Department of Fish and Game, the Conservation Achievement Award from the California-Nevada Chapter of the American Fisheries Society and the Quality of Life Award from the Land Utilization Alliance. The Outdoor Writers Association of California recognized him as Outdoor Californian of the Year and the Delta Fly Fishers selected him as Fly Fisherman of the Year. His efforts in obtaining an historic cleanup of Penn Mine on the Banks of the Mokelumne River led to awards to both the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and Committee to Save the Mokelumne by the California Water Policy IX Conference.
Jim Crenshaw, President/Treasurer
Jim was taught how to fly fish by his father starting at the age of 8. He took over as President of the CSPA from founder and President Roy Haile in 1981. Jim was awarded the Larry Green Memorial Conservation Award by United Anglers in 1996. He is the chair of the Striped Bass Stamp and Bay Delta Stamp advisory committees to the California Department of Fish and Game and is a member of the San Joaquin Drainage Advisory committee.
Corey is a fly fisherman and past president of Tracy Fly Fishers. He is retired from a two track career in materials science and wildlife biology with the University of California, Lawrence Livermore Lab. A passionate advocate for water in rivers for the fish of California, he has been part of the directorship of CSPA since 1998.
John Beuttler, CSPA’s Conservation Director for the past decade, helped propose and draft the federal Klamath River Basin Fishery Resources Restoration Act and the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. He played a pivotal role in the passage of Proposition 132 that banned gill nets in California’s waters and stopped their destruction of marine life. He has worked to conserve the state’s fisheries for a quarter century and was recently appointed by the Governor to the Delta Vision Process to recommend solutions to the crisis in the Delta. The Western Assoc. of Fish and Wildlife Agencies has acknowledged John’s conservation work for his outstanding contribution to wildlife.
Richard Izmirian, Director
Richard Izmirian has held executive and policy making positions in fishing organizations at the local, state, and federal level, most notably with the Northern California Council/Federation of Fly Fishers (past President and Conservation Chair), and the national Federation of Fly Fishers (past Conservation Policy Chair and VP Communications). Richard is also a member of CDF&G’s Striped Bass Advisory Committee, and served on CALFED’s Bay Delta Advisory Committee. He was an original member of the Environmental Water Caucus. Richard is a long time director of CSPA. A contractor by profession, an economist by training, and an angler by preference, he sees hope for our fisheries with CSPA’s pro-active and aggressive advocacy.
Mike Jackson, Director
Michael B. Jackson grew up in Redding, California and has been a resident of the Sacramento Valley Watershed for more than 50 years. In the few years he lived outside the watershed he graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Hastings College of the Law. He has lived and practiced law for the last 30 years in Quincy, California, a community of 5000 people located in the upper reaches of the Feather River, the source of the water for the California State Water Project.
Mr. Jackson has represented various parties in numerous water battles in California, including environmental groups, farmers, and local governments. He presently represents Abatti farms in the Imperial Valley regarding the validity of the Colorado River Quantification Settlement Agreement between the Imperial Irrigation District and adjacent states, the State of California, and urban Southern California water districts. He also represents the Plumas County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance in various water matters. He is a member of the Sacramento Valley Watershed Environmental Water Caucus and a member of the California Environmental Water Caucus.
Nothing he says should be held against any of his clients because what he says here is his own opinion, not necessarily theirs.
The CSPA Advisory Board members are:
Chris is a lifelong California angler who has fished rivers and streams across the state. Inspired by a twenty year history with the Silver Fork American River and Caples Creek, he participated as a volunteer "unaffiliated stream fisheries advocate" in relicensing the El Dorado hydroelectric project, through which flows in those streams are managed. Next, he moved on to the SMUD project north of Highway 50. Chris joined forces with CSPA in 2006, and is now involved in ten hydro projects. Occasionally, he still gets to fish.
Richard McHenry, Director of Permit and Compliance
Recently retired from more than 23 years service at the State and Regional Water Boards, Richard McHenry is a licensed Civil Engineer. With an almost encyclopedic knowledge of state and federal water quality regulations and wastewater treatment processes, he was senior supervisor of the Regional Water Quality Board’s NPDES Permitting Unit for the Sacramento Valley for over a decade. Most recently, Richard served as senior engineer in the State Water Board’s Enforcement Unit. Upon retiring in September 08, Richard joined CSPA as Director of Permits and Compliance.
Mike McKenzie, Membership, Advisory Board
Mike has spent a lifetime fishing in California from the east side of the Sierra Nevada to the waters of the Pacific Ocean. He became an advocate for fisheries conservation in the mid-nineties. He helped form the NCCFFF Striped Bass Committee (now the Bay-Delta Committee) in 1997. As Vice Chair of the Bay-Delta Committee he worked closely with the Department of Fish and Game's Striped Bass Stamp Fund Advisory Committee and was appointed to that committee. in 2001. He still serves on the committee today.
Mike spent 5 years working as a captain and guide, plying the waters of the S.F. Bay and Delta. Doing so gave him additional insight into the Bay Delta fisheries and the issues surrounding their future viability. Mike serves on CSPA's Advisory Board, focusing on membership and outreach. He also serves on the Allied fishing Groups Steering Committee as well as the Water4Fish Steering Committee.
Kari Burr, Advisory Board
Kari has a B.S. and M.S. in biological sciences and more than a decade experience in fish sampling and water quality monitoring. As a biologist for the Fisheries Foundation, she has conducted field sampling in the Delta and numerous Central Valley rivers and is the project manager for the Salmon Acclimation Project in the Carquinez Strait. An accomplished skipper, Kari is proficient in sampling techniques, managing field data and preparing and presenting scientific reports. Previously, she was monitoring and field operations coordinator for Deltakeeper.
Dave Fries PhD., Advisory Board
David Fries is a research professor in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of the Pacific’s T.J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Stockton. Dr. Fries was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Zimbahwe and a visiting Research Professor at Scotland’s University of Dundee, the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and the State University at Groningen in the Netherlands. He has published widely and given numerous presentations at scientific meetings. An avid sailor and committed environmentalist, Dave was an early volunteer for the Committee to Save the Mokelumne and served on the Board of Baykeeper/Deltakeeper before joining CSPA’s Advisory Committee.
Steve Bond, Advisory Board
Steve Bond is a geologist, hydrogeologist and engineering geologist with more than 30 years experience in pollutant fate and transport in groundwater and surface water. He has worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board and, since 1999, has served as President and Principal Geologist of Steven Bond and Associates Inc. in Santa Cruz. Steve has written extensively and provided expert testimony in numerous lawsuits. Among his numerous accomplishments was the initial analytical work identifying the underlying geochemical causes of acid mine drainage at the notorious Penn Mine, on the banks of the Mokelumne River. He has received many awards acknowledging his commitment to environmental protection.
John Ryzanych, Advisory Board
John is an avid fisheries conservationist, municipal policy advisor and recreational angler. In addition he is a business owner within the specialty sport fishing products industry. John provides CSPA with valued service on policy, planning and outreach issues. He's been published in both regional and international sport fishing magazines.
Member, Advisory Board. - Bay Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp.
Member – Municipal Advisory Counsil, Castro Valley, Alameda County, CA.
Member, Board of Directors – Northern California Council Federation of Fly Fishers.
Member, Board of Directors -. Lake Merritt Institute.
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