The BEF WRC Team

Water restoration is a team effort. And we've assembled a group with a real passion for all things H20. This collection of diverse talent is constantly evolving BEF as a leader in the development and implementation of water stewardship solutions. Let's just say if Mother Nature had a sports team, these people would be drafted first.

Pam Davee, Business Development Representative, Climate Business Group

Pam joined BEF in July 2010 as a specialist in watershed protection, focused on BEF Water Restoration Certificates™. Before BEF, she worked as the Development Director for the Harpeth River Watershed Association in Tennessee and for the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in Georgia. Watershed protection is her second career after years in sales and marketing for Abbott Laboratories. She earned her Masters in Public Policy specializing in the environment at Georgia Tech. Outside of BEF, Pam enjoys cycling, hiking, rafting, birding, diving and exploring the Northwest.

Todd Reeve, Vice President, Watershed Programs

Todd earned his masters in physical geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his BA from the University of Oregon. Since 1992, Todd has worked in various capacities for the Forest Service, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the E.P.A., and of course, since 2000 with BEF. Among other projects, Todd has supervised research on salmonid migration studies and habitat use, monitored biological and hydrological results of stream restoration projects and coordinated with many organizations to design and fund watershed research and monitoring programs in the Pacific Northwest. In the process, he has presented at numerous conferences throughout the Pacific Northwest and has published articles in several scholarly journals and magazines.

Kendra Smith, the Willamette Model Watershed Program Director

A certified floodplain manager, Kendra has created many watershed plans, resource assessments, restoration projects, and public policy plans over the last 15 years. She prepared and implemented the Healthy Streams Plan for the Tualatin River Basin while working at Clean Water Services. In 2000, Kendra earned awards from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board and Tualatin Riverkeepers. She currently serves on the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board's Willamette Region Grant Review Team and Metro's Greenspaces Capital Grants Selection Committee. Her B.A. in Biology and Economics is from Colby College and her Master of Science in Ecosystems Management is from the Oregon Graduate Institute.

Andrew Purkey, Program Director, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Columbia Basin Water Transactions Program

For 15 years, Andrew has been a leader in the emerging effort to restore instream flow to western rivers by acquiring and converting water rights. For the past six years he has led the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's groundbreaking Columbia Basin Water Transactions Program. Prior to that, Andrew served as the first executive director of the Oregon Water Trust, the nation's first nonprofit created to acquire water rights for environmental purposes. He has worked with both the Oregon State Legislature and the U.S. Congress and attended Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government where he earned a master's degree in public policy, with a concentration in natural resources policy. Prior to returning to Oregon in 1994, Andrew worked for a Washington, D.C.-based environmental consulting firm for three years, the Nature Conservancy for a year, and as the coordinator of the Great Outdoors Colorado initiative campaign in 1992. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon.

Bruce Aylward, Ph.D., Director, Ecosystem Economics

Bruce, an expert in water rights economics, has 18 years of experience in the U.S. and overseas in work that includes development of water rights acquisition programs for ecosystem purposes. At the Deschutes River Conservancy in Bend, Oregon he led the establishment of a successful water acquisitions program, as well as water banking facilities. Recently he organized a forum on environmental water transactions with U.S. and Australian practitioners in Brisbane, Australia. Currently he is working with Oregon State University on ecosystem markets and with the World Business Council on corporate valuation of ecosystem services.

The author of dozens of papers, Bruce served as lead author on Freshwater Services for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and penned the economics chapter for FLOWS, a World Conservation Union guide. The firm he created, Ecosystem Economics, specializes in the economics of ecosystem management and restoration. Bruce has advised organizations in South Africa, Guyana, London, Tanzania and Costa Rica. On the faculty at Oregon State University, Bruce has degrees from Stanford (BA) and Tufts (MA, Ph.D).