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2026 WNPS Board of Directors Election

This Fall, we have three open at-large positions to fill on the WNPS Board of Directors. The following three nominees have volunteered to serve in these positions from 2026-2029. Their profiles follow.

Please take a moment to review these candidates and cast your vote!
1.Steven Clark is a professor emeritus of biology at Clark College and currently helps manage Clark’s Bee Campus. Throughout his career, he shared his passion for teaching to students from kindergarten through college. He has degrees in psychology, religion, Deaf education and environmental science.

Steven researched the endangered western pond turtle in the Columbia Gorge. Since 2010, he has participated in research led by preeminent pika scientist, Dr. Erik Beever, and helps lead Oregon Zoo’s Cascade Pika Watch.

Steven is Vice-President of the Washington Native Plant Society and he loves his volunteer work with University of Washington Rare Care. For Oregon Fish and Wildlife, he and his wife, Cherie Kearney, survey sage grouse leks each spring.

Left with free time he can be found running on a steep, wooded trail with his dog, Phoebe.

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2.Wendy Gibble joined the Central Puget Sound Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society over 20 years ago and has appreciated the opportunities to attend study weekends and field trips, both as a participant and later as a leader. In her professional capacity, she has given presentations on seed banking and rare plant conservation to WNPS chapters across the state. These opportunities allowed her to meet and botanize with fellow native plant enthusiasts and learn about the Society’s activities across the state. She is excited to help WNPS implement its 2026 Strategic Plan and expand its outreach, educational programs and advocacy efforts to promote native plants and their habitats.

Wendy is currently Associate Director at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens where she provides strategic leadership and management support for the gardens and oversees the Rare Care program. During her 20-year tenure as Rare Care’s program manager, she has expanded opportunities for the public and students to contribute to rare plant conservation through rare plant monitoring, seed banking and restoration projects. She also collaborates with land managers and scientists to prioritize and implement research and reintroductions for Washington’s rare and imperiled plant species. She holds a master’s degree in plant ecology at the University of Washington and worked for 13 years as a water resources engineer.

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3.Linda Storm is a retired wetland ecologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where she worked to protect wetlands and other aquatic resources by implementing the Clean Water Act for several decades. Linda's academic background includes undergraduate work in Botany and Anthropology, two master’s degrees from the University of Washington - one in Wetland Ecology and Coastal Zone Management, the other in Environmental Anthropology/Ethnoecology where she did doctoral research on the historical ecology of Coast Salish peoples’ long-term stewardship and ecosystem management of prairie and oak woodland ecosystems of the Upper Chehalis River Basin, Southwest Washington. Her research took an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct how Coast Salish peoples used fire and tended the land to produce wild plant foods, fibers and medicines for thousands of years.

In retirement, Linda enjoys traveling, basket weaving, snorkeling, and being a primary playmate for her 3½-year-old cousin. She also enjoys volunteering for organizations she cares about. She returned to the Board of the Washington Native Plant Society in 2023 and previously served on the WNPS Board from 2002 to 2009 and had actively volunteered as part of the Central Puget Sound Chapter Board starting in 1998 as Field Trips Coordinator, then Vice Chair, followed by the Chair. Linda assists different Pacific Northwest Tribes with monitoring wetlands and culturally important plants and also volunteers as a Habitat Interpreter at the Seattle Aquarium.

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