Environmental Leadership Program

Martina C. Barnes is the Utah State Liaison for the US Forest Service's Intermountain Region, and in this role she works with the state's environmental agencies and the 5 national forests in Utah.  She is also working on developing a strategic framework for a public-private partnership along the Wasatch Front in Salt Lake City.  Formerly, Martina was a regional planner with the USDA Forest Service - Northeastern Area in Newtown Square, PA. Her work focused on two main areas: coordinating completion of a regional environmental assessment of the Connecticut-Pennsylvania Highlands and co-directing the WET "Watershed Exchange Technology" Partnership, which focuses on delivery of information tools developed specifically for source water watershed forest managers. Martina's interest is in making technical information about natural resource management available to local decision makers and environmental interest groups. Prior to that, she managed urban conservation projects for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's New Jersey office and wrote environmental impact statements for Buckhurst, Fish and Jacquemart, Inc., a planning consulting firm based in New York City. She is a licensed professional planner in New Jersey and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Martina has a Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Studies and a Master's in Regional Planning from Cornell University. She and her husband and their 2 young children live in Park City. She enjoys hiking and long distance running, and is fluent in German.