Linda Lamb Linda is a retired science teacher and who now lives in McIntosh County. She has a BS and MS degree in Biology and Science Education respectively from Georgia State University. She taught in the DeKalb County schools for 30 years. Almost all of the time was spent teaching at Fernbank Science Center and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta where she developed and taught courses in anatomy and physiology for high school students and ecology and natural sciences for middle and elementary students. While at Fernbank she also co-authored and taught elementary school classes in Vermicomposting, Venomous Snakes of Georgia and Marvelous Monarch Migration. She served as the Chairperson of the Wild Garden Project for four years and is a member of the Monarchs Across Georgia Steering Committee. She is one of the founding members of a new non-profit, Coastal WildScapes, which is exclusively dedicated to preservation and restoration of native coastal habitats. Linda is passionate about native plants and the concepts of sustainability, stewardship of the land, ecosystem services and coastal habitats.
David Moulder David is a retired vocational teacher with 29 years in the Rankin County School System. He has a MS from Mississippi State. David is currently the Bryan County Extension Agent and has been in this position for 9 years. He has designed and taught the Master Naturalist class for the Georgia coast as well as facilitated the Master Gardener course. He is a Certified Turf Professional and a Certified ISA Arborist. David is one of the founding members and serves as a board member for the non-profit, Coastal WildScapes, which is dedicated to preservation and restoration of native coastal habitats. He is passionate about native plants and recognized as a leader in field recognition of native trees and shrubs. David has also developed an extensive and on-going list of coastal native plants.
Gregg Bayard Gregg has an extensive profession background in the technical development and management of food commodities and environmentally responsible residential, commercial and mixed-use development. He is the president of the Athens Land Trust – FSV Subsidiary, Inc. which is a development partnership between The Athens Land Trust, Inc and Ambling Development, Inc for the development of The Fourth Street Village, an affordable housing project in Athens, GA. He is also the principle for Salt Creek, LLC a sustainable & conservation developer of residential, commercial & mixed use properties, with operations focused in Coastal Georgia. He is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of Parallel Housing, Inc. a 501(c)(3) for the development of Sustainable Fellwood, the redevelopment of the 27 acre Housing Authority of Savannah former Fellwood Homes.
In addition:
- First pilot project for SouthFace’s EarthCraft Coastal Communities™ program.
- First participant in Georgia Green Coastal Subdivision program.
- Certified Wildlife Sanctuary by The Wild Garden Project.
- Registered for Silver Certification in Audubon International Signature Program.
- Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership (IGEL) – Class of 2009
- Mayor’s Committee For Affordable Housing (Athens).
- City of Savannah Affordable Housing & Regulatory Reform Finance/Funding Focus Group
- Cooperative Institute for Coastal & Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET) – Advisory Board
- The Jekyll Island Company – Advisory Council for the sustainable re-development of Jekyll Island.
- Coastal WildScapes – CEO and Board Chair.
- Sanctuary on the Sapelo – Board of Directors
- Athens Land Trust – Treasurer & Secretary.
- Athens-Clarke County Board of Tax Equalization – Board Member.
- Historic Boulevard Neighborhood Association – CFO & Membership Chair.
- Athens Area Residential Rental Property Association (ARRPA) – founding member, interim President & Treasurer.
- American Peanut Council – Board of Directors.
- The Peanut Foundation – Board of Directors; Selection Committee for research project funding.
- National Peanut Council – Board of Directors; Vice-Chairman of Research Committee.
- Coastal WildScapes –Board Chair, Life Time member.
- Georgia Native Plant Society – Life Time member.
- Wild Garden Project – Life Time member.
- Mushroom Club of Georgia – Life Time member.
- Friends of the Georgia Museum of Natural History – Charter member.
- Friends of the UGA Marine Institute – member.
- Georgia Conservancy – member.
- Friends of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia – member.
- American Peanut Research and Education Society (APRES) – member.
Gregg has BSA Horticulture from the University of Georgia and a Masters of Plant Protection and Pest Management, also from the University of Georgia
Christa Frangimore Hayes Christa obtained a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Georgia State University in 1976 followed by an Assistantship in Traditional Art Glass Techniques at Atelier Fanjat, Lyon, France from 1977-79. In 2002, Christa completed her formal studies by obtaining a Master of Science Degree in Conservation and Sustainable Development from the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. From 2003-2005 Christa was the science and non-fiction acquisitions editor for the University of Georgia Press. She then broadened her scope of knowledge as an Assistant Faculty at the Fanning Institute at the University of Georgia Where she developed programming for the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership.
Christa has spent three years photographing coastal butterflies and native plants. She also served as Conservation Manager for Jekyll Island from March 2007 until October 2009. In 2008, Christa formed a consulting company, Southeast Crescent Group, which specializes in nature based program/project development and graphic design.
Christa is a founding member and board member of Coastal WildScapes.
Mike Browning Mike has practiced landscape architecture for over 25 years. A graduate of the University of Georgia’s School of Environmental Design in 1978, his early career influences included a stint as a grounds superintendent at a small Georgia college, graduate studies in regional planning at Georgia Tech, and work as a landscape architect with two of the top landscape architecture firms in Atlanta on projects up and down the eastern seaboard. His professional experience has involved a range of design work diverse in scale and type. Adept at land planning and site design, his early work focused on high-end corporate facility and regional retail facility site design, then evolved to include more planning work, management of design teams producing resort landscapes, environmental assessments, special garden design, large scale interior landscape design, urban planning and redevelopment, and real estate entitlement with a diversity of private and public sector clients. His work has garnered awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Landscape Contractors Association, the National Fund for the National Garden, the state of Georgia Dept of Community Affairs, and others.
Mike is a past board member of the Georgia Urban Forest Council, board member of Griffin Technical College, and has served in various capacities on city and county planning commissions. He currently directs the Savannah Branch office of jB+a, inc., a planning and landscape architecture firm headquartered in Atlanta. He is active in Rotary, serving as the grants committee chair for Savannah Rotary East, and is an active volunteer with Savannah CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) . He also serves on the board of directors for the Savannah Tree Foundation.
Paul Griffin: Paul is a retired naval officer and retired engineer for a large aerospace company. He has extensive leadership experience in positions of significant responsibility involving large budgetary authority, extensive subordinate activity and technical research and development. Primary assignments required detailed planning, decision making and personal accountability in dynamic, unstructured situations. As a senior naval officer he was responsible for diverse operational activities and staff functions; commanded operational aviation squadrons responsible for independent, world-wide operations; commanded naval shore facility, including all aspects of facilities, roads and infrastructure, utilities, residential housing and operational capabilities; and directed personnel planning and fleet-wide manning activities for the United States Navy. As an engineer and program manager he was responsible for providing the technical performance data of Lockheed Martin aircraft to domestic and foreign customers. He led the multi-company cockpit design team for the electronic displays and data management systems for the F-22 Raptor aircraft, the world’s most advanced tactical aircraft.
Paul is a graduate of Centre College of Kentucky (BA Physics), The Naval Postgraduate School (MS Underwater Physics), Naval War College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
In addition:
- Lifetime Member of the Navy League
- Lifetime Member of the Wild Garden Project
- Member of the Board of Advisors for the Georgia Conservancy
- Board Member Coastal WildScapes
- Member Friends of Sapelo
- Chairman Board of Tax Assessors, McIntosh County, Georgia
- Member Historical Preservation Advisory Council for the Coastal Regional Commission of Georgia
- Member Altamaha Riverkeeper