Jenner Highlands

Brook is manager of the newly opened Jenner Headlands Preserve and will explain how this valuable property,  overlooking the Russian River and the Pacific Ocean, came to be a part of the “Wildlands Conservancy” and what it offers to those who enjoy the outdoors.  He will show what visitors can expect from a visit to this property and explain what the “Wildlands Conservancy” is providing to residents of Sonoma County and California. Brook was born and raised in Santa Rosa.  His love of the outdoors was instilled in him at an early age by his father who would take him and his family out camping in the High Sierras every summer. Brook received his Bachelor’s Degree in environmental Studies from San Jose State University and afterwards worked as a field botanist in both the private and public sector, working in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Great Basin, Upper Sacramento River watershed, Point Reyes National Seashore, and the Sichuan Province of China. After receiving his Master’s Degree from Humboldt State University in Natural Resources Planning, he worked as a GIS Specialist for the International Institute of Tropical forestry located in Puerto Rico. In 2008, Brook came home to Sonoma County to work for the Sonoma Land Trust as the Jenner Headlands Project Manager. He now works for The Wildlands Conservancy and manages both the Jenner Headlands and Estero Americano Coast Preserves.