Valerie Gordon
Secretary/Treasurer

Valerie’s conservation work spans over two decades of projects focused on endangered species, water, rangeland, and wildlife habitat in the U.S. and Mexico. Most notably, Valerie spearheaded the transition of the Cuenca Los Ojos Foundation, a family foundation started by her mother, Valer Clark, to a public nonprofit that promotes land restoration both in the U.S. and Mexico. The Cuenca Los Ojos Mexico project is responsible for the management of a 121,000-acre protected preserve dedicated to restoring the historic wetlands, grasslands, and wildlife habitat of northern Mexico along the U.S./Mexico border. Valerie also served as the director of The Nature Conservancy’s Merced County Grassland’s Program where she worked to preserve a vast vernal pool grassland in California’s Central Valley in support of endangered species conservation. She also owns and operates a grass-fed, regenerative beef ranch in the eastern Sierra Nevada. Valerie’s leadership roles include chairwoman of the California Rangeland Trust, board member of both Cuenca Los Ojos in the U.S. and Mexico, technical committee member for Cuenca Los Ojos (Mexico), and board member for the Partnership of Rangeland Trusts. She is a dog lover and an avid outdoors woman who loves to trail run, backpack and ski with her husband and daughter.