Tuleyome has hired Angel Martinez to coordinate the campaign to protect the public lands of the Berryessa Snow Mountain region as a National Conservation Area. He will work to mobilize grassroots public support for the proposed designation.

“Angel is passionate about environmental policy and preservation, especially issues regarding California’s public lands and watersheds,” said Sara Husby-Good, Tuleyome’s executive director and campaign director. “He has campaign experience and will be a great asset to Tuleyome.”

Martinez has a bachelor’s degree from UC Davis in community and regional development, with an emphasis in public policy. Previously, he worked as a community outreach director for the Public Interest Research Group in Sacramento.

He is bilingual in English and Spanish. As former co-regional director of the California Young Democrats Latino Caucus, he empowered other members of the Hispanic community to step up, and take action to protect public lands.

The proposed Berryessa Snow Mountain National Conservation Area is 500,000 acres of public lands in the Northern Inner Coast Range. It is less than 100 miles from the Sacramento and San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan regions.

The region is biologically diverse, with blue oak woodlands, special plants on serpentine soils, subalpine habitats and migratory corridors. It is home to bald and golden eagles, mountain lions, bears, tule elk, pacific fishers and California newts.

There are many opportunities to boat, hike, ride horses, fish, mountain bike, hunt, camp and reconnect with the outdoors, Husby-Good said.

For more information, visit http://www.tuleyome.org.

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