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 San Francisco, California. Glenn is a California licensed general building and landscaping contractor.

Mark has a degree in biology from UC Santa Cruz and has worked over 17 years as a biologist and environmental educator for State and Federal resource management agencies and private biological consulting firms. His past work has focused on wildlife and fisheries science until he discovered invasive weeds at Shelterbelt several years ago. He is now considered an expert in invasive plant control and works collaboratively with wide variety of organizations such as Weed Management Areas, CA Native Plant Society and the California Invasive Plant Council to develop new and better methods to identify, respond to and manage invasive plants. Currently, Mark heads Shelterbelt as president. Mark is licensed Agricultural Pest Control Advisor, prepares restoration plans, designs and manages projects and still finds time to work in the field from time to time.

Mark can be contacted by email at: mark at shelterbeltbuilders.com

Noah D. Booker—Principal and Washington State Projects Manager

Noah D. Booker joined Shelterbelt in 1997 to help refocus Shelterbelt on native plant restoration and open land management.  He holds a B.A., Honors, in History from UC Santa Cruz, a certificate in Landscape Horticulture (AA equivalent) from Merritt College, has been an ISA Certified Arborist since 1998, and is a Certified Erosion and Sediment Control Lead (WA Dept. of Ecology). 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 family’s ancestral home 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, erosion control, invasive plant management and natural landscape projects in Shelterbelt’s Western Washington field office.  

Noah can be contacted by email at: noah at shelterbeltinc.com

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 has 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 and the East Bay Regional Park District WILDFIRE HAZARD REDUCTION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT in 2009/10. He has managed many properties in the East Bay where wildfire safety and native habitat preservation 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.

Ryan Gerlach—Crew Supervisor
 
Ryan Gerlach has been working in the restoration of California's ecosystems for the past four and a half years. Through this work he has become familiar with the many diverse plant communities native to the Bay Area.

After graduating with a degree in Environmental Studies major from Knox College he spent a season on a National Parks Service fire crew in Washington State. Ryan got his start in restoration working for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy shortly thereafter and then in the fall of 2005 arrived at Shelterbelt, where he has been ever since.

Ryan can be contacted by email at: ryan at shelterbeltbuilders.com

Jonathan Greenberg—Crew Supervisor/Landscape Designer
 
Jonathan (Yoni) Greenberg is a Landscape Designer and Field Supervisor and has over four years of professional experience in habitat restoration and landscape management. He holds a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from the University of Maryland and specializes in designing and installing residential native plant landscapes.  In his free time Yoni enjoys cooking, brewing beer, painting California landscapes, playing music, and snowboarding.

Jonathan can be contacted by email at: jonathan at shelterbeltbuilders.com