Glenn Jones co-founded Shelterbelt Builders in 1978 and completed over 600 commercial and residential building and landscaping projects during the subsequent 15 years. Following the re-building efforts of the Oakland Fire of 1994, he led the redirection of Shelterbelt to become the first Bay Area construction company focusing entirely on implementing habitat restoration and wildland vegetation management projects. With over 30 years of construction business experience, Glenn now acts as Shelterbelt’s chief business advisor. Glenn still pursues his interest in construction management and building with his company, On Time On Budget Inc, based in La Honda and Berkeley California.

Mark Heath joined Shelterbelt in 1998 to support the biological science component of the newly oriented company. Mark has a degree in biology from UC Santa Cruz and has worked over 7 years as a biologist and environmental educator for State and Federal resource management agencies and private biological consulting firms. Mark was frustrated with working as biologist for these groups where plans for restoration were never implemented and degraded natural lands were only monitored.

“Joining Shelterbelt gave me the opportunity for the first time in my career to pick up a Pulaski and start implementing restoration projects with my own two hands instead of just sitting back and monitoring their demise.” - Mark Heath

Currently, Mark heads Shelterbelt as president, prepares restoration plans, designs and manages projects, prepares GIS—mapping products and still swings the Pulaski.

Noah D. Booker—Principal and Washington State Projects Manager

Noah Booker joined Shelterbelt in 1997 to help refocus Shelterbelt on native plant restoration and open land management. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Honors in History from UC Santa Cruz, a Certificate in Landscape Horticulture from Merritt College, and has been an ISA Certified Arborist since 1998. From 1997 to 2002, Noah managed all East Bay habitat restoration projects and supervised all landscape horticulture projects Company-wide. He is obsessed with native plants and noxious weeds…do not approach him when he starts to babble about plants. In 2002 he fulfilled a lifelong dream by moving to his ancestral homeland of Bellingham, WA, where he now lives with his wife, Anna, son Julian, and daughter Flora Joyce. Currently Noah plans and implements all revegetation/restoration, invasive plant and natural landscape projects in Shelterbelt’s Western Washington satellite office. Please contact him at   .

Bill McClung joined Shelterbelt in 1997 to help refocus Shelterbelt on native plant restoration and open land management/fire safety. After his house burnt down in the 1991 Oakland Fire, this former book publisher became interested in how wildland and fire are managed in the East Bay Hills. He became a member of the Berkeley Fire Commission in 1994 and developed a strong interest in the vegetation prescriptions of the FIRE HAZARD PROGRAM & FUEL MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE EAST BAY HILLS issued in 1995 by the East Bay Hills Vegetation Management Consortium. He has managed many properties in the East Bay where wildfire safety and ecological restoration are twin goals, and continues to work on interesting and biologically rich lands in the Oakland Hills.

A New York State native, Rolland earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from State University New York at Brockport in 2000. After graduation he was off to California to work with the National Park Service in the GGNRA as a volunteer in the native plant nursery and Site Stewardship programs, where he dedicated 14 months to learning about practical habitat restoration. Rolland Mathers joined Shelterbelt in 2001, taking a crew level position on Cape Ivy removal work within the GGNRA. First assignment, hike into Milagra Ridge Canyon and cut massive amounts of poison oak tangled Cape Ivy infested coastal scrub, tarp it, and pile it. There began Rolland’s assault on weeds plaguing our landscapes and wildlands. Currently Rolland designs and manages restoration and vegetation management projects in the East Bay Area and supervises and coordinates all field operations Company-wide.