Tim Vendlinski currently serves as EPA’s Bay Delta Program Manager; and from 1989-1995, worked under the auspices of the San Francisco Estuary Project to establish the scientific basis for the ‘X2’ salinity standards that underpinned the Bay Delta Accord. In 2007, EPA sent Tim on a unique four-year detail to the non-profit Sustainable Conservation where he directed their Restoration on Private Lands Program. Previously, he spent seven years supervising the Wetlands Regulatory Program for EPA’s Pacific Southwest Region; and before that, he collaborated with agencies, landowners, and NGOs under the Interagency Vernal Pool Stewardship Initiative to protect rangelands, untilled landscapes, and oak woodlands across California (1995-2000). Tim was raised in Sacramento, attended American River College, graduated from UC Davis, and resides with his wife and daughter in Oakland.