Board

Paul Kundtz has lived in Kitsap County since 1984 with his wife Anne, and raised two children here. He worked as an attorney in Seattle for 28 years, serving clients throughout the region, including Kitsap County Superior Court. More recently, he worked as the Northwest Director for The Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation organization. He obtained his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan, and recently completed a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Leadership from Seattle University.

Paul has served on many nonprofit boards, including the Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition, Mountains to Sound Greenway, Washington Association of Land Trusts, Bloedel Reserve, Seattle Aquarium, and the Bainbridge Island Land Trust. He was an elected commissioner of the Bainbridge Island Park District. He has held leadership positions in these organizations, including president/chair, treasurer, and committee chair.

Paul enjoys hiking, camping, biking, skiing, sailing, and kayaking throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has visited 47 national parks, and expects to see all 59.

Keith Baldwin grew up in Everett, Washington, and since 2009 he and his wife Margie have had a home in Kitsap County overlooking Sinclair Inlet and the Waterman Wetlands. He earned bachelor’s degrees in Oceanography and Geology from the University of Washington.  He served as an officer in the NOAA Commissioned Corps for three years and then earned a law degree from Stanford Law School. He has practiced law in Seattle and Bellevue since 1976, and is currently Of Counsel to Davis Wright Tremaine, where he was a partner from 2000 to 2020. His practice emphasizes business transactions and securities law, and he has represented a variety of clients, including family-owned businesses, timber companies, and individuals and foundations supporting environmental causes. Keith served on the board and as board president of the Bellevue Arts Museum and is now on its Advisory Council. He also served as a member and president of the HOA board at his home in Woodinville. Keith and his family have found the Great Peninsula to be an inspiring natural environment and he looks forward to working with the board to continue the effective work of GPC. His favorite activities include exploring the peninsula with Margie, hanging out with grandchildren, boating on Puget Sound, learning guitar, and playing golf badly.

Mark Greenfield lived in Seattle from 1968 until he and his wife, Jennifer, moved to Silverdale in 2019. Mark is a recently retired CPA who graduated from St. Martin’s University. Over the past 45 years, he served in financial management roles in several industries. The most recent role was 7 years as CFO of a national wild bird food producer. Mark and Jennifer have a grown son and daughter and one granddaughter. Mark enjoys running, especially when travelling in Hawaii, France and Italy. Mark has served on several nonprofit boards over the years. The most recent were as board Treasurer of Conservation Northwest, and board President of Seattle Audubon Society.

Patricia Weagant grew up in Port Orchard, and attended junior college and worked in Seattle while her husband attended the University of Washington. They moved to Poulsbo in 1979 where she began volunteering at her children’s elementary school. Patricia worked as a para-educator with small groups of students, was active in the PTSA at the elementary and high school level, and was vice president and president of her local public school employees union. She also was an officer and coach in the North Kitsap Soccer Club. Over the years she has enjoyed hiking and biking in the North Cascades and Olympics, fly fishing and spending time at their cabin in Stehekin.

David Morris is a graduate of Peninsula High School and University of Washington in business administration. After serving in the Army as an officer, he entered the real estate business in Gig Harbor. Dave has been a real estate broker for over 40 years, and has vast experience in land sales, land development, and associated permitting processes. He currently manages 80 acres of forestland in northern Pierce County, and manages a variety of raw land and income producing properties. Dave is excited to put his real estate experience to work helping Great Peninsula Conservancy.

Dave’s community involvement includes service on the Gig Harbor School Board, Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce, Harbor History Museum, and Gig Harbor Rotary. An active real estate investor and counselor, Dave is a former manager and current stockholder of Keller Williams Realty in Gig Harbor and Silverdale. One of Dave’s activities involves his role as manager of The Morris Foundation, which makes real estate loans and investments, and uses the proceeds to make charitable contributions to many local non-profit organizations. Dave and his wife Mame have a son, daughter, and young granddaughter. He enjoys tennis, golf, boating, snow skiing, and travel.

Laurie Usher’s love of nature began while exploring crawfish “cricks” in her native Chester County, PA. After graduating from Penn State in Outdoor Education & Marine Science, she completed her M.S. at Ohio State in Extension Education. She enjoyed working as an Interpretive Ranger at both Mt. Rainier and Olympic National Parks.

As an environmental educator, she operated Enviro-Ed Consulting for twenty years. Laurie created community-based watershed education and involvement programs throughout Washington along with conducting teacher workshops. She worked as WSU/Thurston County’s Water Quality Field Agent. In addition, she was the Education Lead for the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team.

As a photojournalist, she has actively worked towards equity for women in sports and has numerous published works of sports and of environmental issues. Now retired, she serves as Professor Emeritus at Olympic College, after teaching Digital Media Arts for 18 years.

Laurie has lived in Kitsap County since 1986. She and her partner live on Chico Bay in Dyes Inlet and love watching the otters, eagles, osprey, heron and migrating salmon from their deck.

John Barrett grew up in Houston, Texas before attending Amherst College and Harvard Law School.  After graduation, he practiced law, primarily in the international business area, with firms in Houston and Denver, Colorado before leaving practice to become a law professor at the University of Toledo, where he has been since 1994.  In addition to numerous business and international law courses, he has taught U.S. Environmental Law and International Environmental Law.  Since 2017, he has lived out in the woods on the Olympic Peninsula, and he continues to teach online.  John has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the Toledo Area International Trade Assoc., the North American Dispute Resolution Center, the ACLU of Denver, and Colorado Lawyers for the Arts.  John is an avid wildlife photographer who has had several exhibitions of his work and used to write a wine column for a local paper.  His interest in photography and wine combines well with his love of travel, which has led him to adventures on all seven continents.  Day to day, he enjoys golfing, skiing and hiking.

Mike has lived and raised two children in Gig Harbor since 2004. He is a Professor of Marine Ecology and the Director of the Environmental Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA.  His teaching focuses on Ecology and Conservation Biology, in both the PNW and the Caribbean and his current research focuses on the larval ecology and restoration of bivalves, and community-based rocky beach monitoring.  He received his BS in Biology from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to this, Mike has worked with environmental education and stewardship programs in California and Washington, most recently serving various roles with Harbor WildWatch and founding board member of the Gig Harbor Land Conservation Fund. Mike loves to be active in the outdoors and can be found cycling, trail running, kayaking and fly fishing. The activities bring him closer to nature and strengthen his commitment to the work of GPC to preserve and restore our local landscapes.

David De Bruyn has been in the Puget Sound area since 1974. He is a very active kayaker having done trips, many multiple, in over 50 parts of Puget Sound as well as many international locations. He serves or has served on a number of boards including the Rainier Valley Community Development Fund, Ventures, the Kitsap Community Foundation, the Kitsap County Historical Society, and the Keta Legacy Foundation (formerly Mountaineers Foundation). He has had extensive involvement with Great Peninsula Conservancy over many years. David worked for the Environmental Protection Agency first in Washington, DC. and then for most of his career in Seattle. He also served in the Fiji Islands with the Peace Corps. He has a BA from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Mike Hall grew up in Seattle and has been a resident of Kitsap County with his wife Becky since 1994. Recently retired, Mike’s career was as the owner and President of Hall & Company, a management consulting and insurance brokerage firm located in Poulsbo. Mike’s company provided professional liability insurance and ownership transfer planning services to architects and engineers. Mike has a Civil Engineering degree and an MBA.

Mike and Becky have two adult children, a daughter and son. They enjoy sailing, boating, fishing, hiking, biking, snow skiing, and travel.  Mike’s commitment to helping GPC is based on many hours of trail bike riding in Port Gamble and walking his dog in Heritage Park.

Mike and Becky are long-time supporters of Fishline and GPC. Becky serves on the Board and is the Treasurer of Fishline Food Bank and now Mike needs to work hard to catch up with her long record of community service.

Russ Hartman was born and raised in Renton, Washington. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1973 and a juris doctor from the University of Oregon in 1976. Russ started his legal career in Bremerton after law school graduation. Russ was in private practice for twenty-three years. He finished his legal career serving ten years as a Kitsap County Superior Court Judge, the last three as presiding judge.

Over the decades Russ has been involved in many kinds of community service. These include five years on the Bremerton School Board, founding board member and chair of Kitsap Volunteer Attorney Legal Services, and founding board member and chair of the Leadership Kitsap Foundation.

This is Russ’ second time on the GPC Board. He first served from 2017 to 2023, including two years as board president. He is delighted to be back on the board.

Kelly Michaels has lived in Kitsap County since 2004.  She was president of a commercial real estate firm in Seattle for 16 years, then was recruited to join Kitsap Humane Society’s executive team as director of marketing. She worked with staff and community volunteers to heighten awareness of adoptable pets, fundraising needs and the inspiring efforts of the staff to care for and rehome all kinds of animals, including dogs and cats.  She later served on Kitsap Humane Society’s board of directors. She has also served on the board of trustees of Sunrise Haven, a nonprofit nursing facility, and as a mentor for Foster Care for Success.

She is currently on the Poulsbo Parks and Recreation Commission and an active member of the Christian Science church on Bainbridge Island. Living in Kitsap County has brought her so much closer to nature, and she enjoys hiking, biking, beachcombing, dog-walking and tennis.

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