Board of Directors
The Task Force Board of Directors provides guidance and direction to the Task Force staff.
The Board's roles include the following
- Develop policy with staff assistance.
- Bring resources to the organization - money, projects, land, volunteers, materials, etc.
- Ensure financial solvency.
- Ensure oversight of programs, policies, and lead staff.
Kip Killebrew, President
Kip Killebrew has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology with a minor in Marine Science from Penn State University. He has more than 20 years of experience in the fisheries field and has worked with the National Marine Fisheries Service, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the University of Washington School of Fisheries. For the last 14 years, Kip has been employed as a fisheries biologist for the Stillaguamish Tribe working on the Tribe's chinook natural stock restoration program. Recently, NMFS has acknowledged the Tribe's chinook hatchery restoration program as one of only 6 programs within Puget Sound that are essential to the recovery of endangered Puget Sound chinook. Kip has been involved with the Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force since its inception in 1990, and has filled a variety of board/officer positions during that time, except Treasurer because he's lousy at managing money.Thomas Murphy, Vice President
Thomas Murphy is Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Edmonds Community College. He has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Washington and has conducted ethnobiological and ethnomedical research in Guatemala, Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. The Associated Students of Edmonds CC selected Dr. Murphy as the Lifetime Honorary Triton Outstanding Faculty in 2005 and Outstanding Club Advisor in 2003 and 2001. He founded the Learn-and-serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School at the college in 2006. The LEAF School is an innovative service-learning program in which students earn an AmeriCorps education award while completing a series of courses in Human Ecology. The LEAF School's contributions to making fishing, farming and forestry more sustainable received national recognition when the Community College National Center for Community Engagement selected the program for a 2007 Service-Learning Collaboration Award.Andy Loch, Treasurer
Mr. Loch has acquired 20 years of experience in aquatic ecology in a variety of settings and disciplines. His skills, knowledge and abilities have been derived in part from extensive assessments utilizing bioassesments, wetland surveys, fisheries biology, landscape characterization profiles, and ambient monitoring. His area of expertise is evaluating our human footprint on the aquatic ecology of streams and wetlands. As an Aquatic Ecologist with BS in Environmental Biology he has worked on wide range of projects from glacier fed streams of Washington's Cascade Mountains to her windswept nearshore estuarine habitats. Andy has collaborated with public agencies, local governments, sovereign nations, non-profit organizations, and private landowners to foster watershed-based approaches to protect, preserve and restore our aquatic resources. Recipient of several awards, the most notable being the Pilchuck Audubon Society's Outstanding Community Achievement Award for his work to conserve and restore the natural ecosystems of Snohomish County.Chris Grieve, Secretary
James “Chris” Grieve has a mechanical engineering degree from Arizona State University and currently works in the commercial aircraft modification business. He is also a fly fisherman and a part time fly fishing guide. As a guide, he spends a lot of time on the Stillaguamish, Skykomish, Skagit and Sauk rivers. Chris is also a board member of the Wild Steelhead Coalition. “I am passionate about fly fishing for steelhead and salmon. I would like to see a reversal in the decline in our wild steelhead and salmon run. I am adamant about protecting and restoring the environment that they live in so that generations to come may enjoy them as I have.”Cindy Flint, Director
Cindy Flint has been a Watershed Steward with Snohomish County Surface Water Management for the past two years. As such, she provides technical assistance to residents living along waterways and facilitates the implementation of restoration projects. Cindy has a Masters of Science in Forest Ecology and Soils from the University of Washington (2007). Prior to returning to graduate school, she worked for three non-profit organizations successively in both Portland and Seattle including the Mid-Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group. She has also conducted research and written grants while working for non-profit organizations in Tanzania and Guatemala. She has gained 7 years of project and grant management experience and spent 4 ½ years working for non-profit organizations.
Phil Taylor, Director
Phil was borne and raised on a farm near Selah Wa. After completing high school, he moved to the coast to work for the Boeing Company. After 42 years, he retired from Boeing. To fill his time, Phil looked for something interesting to get involved with. He started volunteering on the week ends with the Task Force. He was delighted when the Task Force asked him to join the Board.Doug Hennick, Department of Fish and Wildlife Steward
Doug is presently well into his second career of fish and wildlife biology, serving in the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife first as Area Habitat Biologist, then as Forest and Fish Biologist, and presently as Watershed Steward for the Stillaguamish and Snohomish Rivers and Island County. His first career was as a commissioned officer in the NOAA Corps where he was an oceanographer, ships officer, and fisheries biologist, but he retired from that long ago. He got started in all this with a masters degree from Cornell in Aquatic Science and Fisheries Science, plus a stint as a Coast Guard officer. Along the way he also served for a few years as a senior ecologist in King County government, where he comfortably transitioned from oceanographer to stream ecologist, similar to the way salmon make a transition on their way home.