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Laura Kamala - Southern Utah Program Director

Background Information:
30 years experience in grassroots community organizing
Member - Southeast regional advisory council to the Utah Wildlife Board
Member - Utah Partners for Conservation and Development
Founding Board Chair of Castle Rock Collaboration
Former Director of southeast branch of Utah Open Lands
Founding principal of a health supplement business, The Synergy Company in Moab
Works with Earth Mandala Foundation for Global Peace through the Arts
Documentary filmmaker

Education:
Studied Wildlife Biology at Rutgers University

Selected Career Highlights:
Managed a 3-year, 4500 acre watershed and wildlife habitat planning project with Utah State Trust
Lands (SITLA) and the Castle Valley community
Helped design 88,000 acre SITLA/BLM land exchange protecting sensitive habitat in eastern Utah
A leader in Castleton Tower Preservation Initiative
Helped create conservation market for SITLA lands in Utah
Helped secure funding for a 530 acre wildlife habitat conservation easement

Current job description:
Laura is currently Utah Programs Director where she manages the Trust’s work on Utah conservation
issues

Responsibilities:
Advocates for open space preservation on Utah state lands
Travel planning for off-road-vehicles
Mitigation of impacts from oil and gas development on public lands
Work to create voluntary 1% for Open Space Program for Southeast Utah

Contact Information:
Laura Kamala
Grand Canyon Trust
435-259-8702
kamala2@earthlink.net

 

 

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