Jay Taber Community Service 1971-1998

• Helped found the Fairhaven Cooperative Flour Mill in Bellingham WA.
• Conducted research on medical statistics to prevent siting of a nuclear power plant in Skagit County WA.
• Managed the campaign office of Whatcom County Commissioner candidate Mary Kay Becker.
• Helped Citizens for Sensible Industry prevent dredging of the Cherry Point WA herring spawning grounds.
• Served as President of the Whatcom Falls Neighborhood Association.
• Served as funding advisor on the Bellingham Greenways citizen’s oversight committee.
• Assisted Whatcom County Council of Governments with funding bicycle and pedestrian facilities in Blaine, Birch Bay, Bellingham, Everson and Glacier.
• Served as advisor to Whatcom County in designing and funding the Natural Heritage Program used to purchase old growth forests, wetlands and shorelines.
• Oversaw planning and funding of the cross-county “Bay to Baker” trail project for

Whatcom Parks and Recreation Foundation.

• Led the Watershed Defense Fund in halting contamination of the Bellingham municipal reservoir.
• Served as political advisor to Sherilyn Wells for County Council campaign.
• Led Whatcom Environmental Council in fighting Wise Use Movement, anti-Indian, property-rights groups throughout Washington state.
• Worked as Public Good Project field agent in gathering information that led to the conviction of militia members planning to bomb human rights activists.
• Represented the Nooksack Basin Alliance in a federal watershed initiative to protect public resources and recover endangered salmon in northwest Washington state.
• Assisted with startup of The Every Other Weekly, an alternative newspaper, by providing 25 years of political archives.
• Served on the Whatcom Human Rights Task Force speaker’s bureau.