Carl comes on board with more than 35 years of public land management experience in Bureau of Land Managements (BLM) Washington, DC office and several Western states. Before his retirement in 2014, he served as the Assistant Director of BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System. In this role, he led effort to better protect and raise awareness of BLM’s 32-million acres of wilderness and other nationally designated conservation areas, and to promote greater conservation in BLM’s public land management. Throughout his career, he has championed collaborative approaches to resolving natural resource issues. He led efforts to create then California Biodiversity Council as the California BLM Deputy Sate Director, he helped organize federal, state, and local agencies to deal more effectively to reduce migrant deaths and resource damage along the Arizona - Mexico border. Since his retirement, he has continued to advocate for the designation and protection of conservation areas and to build greater, more effective partnerships for managing public lands. How lucky are we to have Carl leading the way for us to make “Music in the Wild”