President

Andrea spent her career working in local municipal government, recently retiring after 35 years of public service.  Most recently, she oversaw Port San Luis Harbor District as Harbor Manager, spending 7 years at that agency.  She also taught Grant Writing and Finance at California Polytechnic State University as an adjunct professor. Prior to that she spent 2 years as the Executive Director of a newly formed, non-profit organization instrumental in securing historic fishing privileges to the Central Coast - the Morro Bay Community Quota Fund. Andrea began her career with the City of Morro Bay, spending 27 years with that city, including 7 years as City Manager. 

Andrea is involved with a number of local nonprofits/organizations including Board Member of the Los Osos Community Advisory Council, Committee Member for the Land Committee/Land Conservancy of SLO County, member of the Los Osos Community Services District Parks and Recreation Committee, Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Morro Bay Community Quota Fund, Past President of the California Association of Harbormasters and Port Captains and Board Member of REACT Alliance. 

Married to Richard Hubbard since 1990.  They have one married daughter who lives with her husband and their son in Los Osos.  Andrea divides her time between California, Colorado and her grandson with other travel interspersed along the way.

Jim has been a trial attorney for 40 years, 36 of them in San Luis Obispo. He is a former board member of Morro Coast  Audubon Society and has performed pro bono representation for that group. He has been a field trip leader for Western Field Ornithologists, Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club and many Audubon Society chapters, and has compiled several Christmas bird counts.

He was a founding board member of the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival. He continues to lead trips for that festival. He was a board member for the  Kern River Research Center near Lake Isabella, which studied birds and other wildlife in that area, plus preserved and restored habitat in that area. He is married to Celeste Royer, who was the Director of Rancho El Chorro Environmental School for many years. They have lived two blocks from Cuesta since 1990 and they continue to enjoy daily walks there with their dogs. Jim has compiled a list of birds and plants recorded at Cuesta Inlet.

 Linda served as a Ventura County Supervisor, Councilmember and Mayor of Thousand Oaks, and was a board member of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. She helped stop development of the 3,000-acre Ahmanson Ranch which was made into a park, enacted a first-of-its-kind zone that protects wildlife corridors, and championed a wildlife bridge over the 101 freeway. She established Growing Works, a nonprofit nursery that provides horticultural therapy and job training for people with mental illness. She’s the Executive Director of SOAR (Save Open-space and Agricultural Resources) and sits on the Board of the Environmental Defense Center. Linda met her husband at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and enjoyed many years of camping with her family in Morro Bay and paddling in the estuary, and now is thrilled every day to be living here.

Secretary

Margarete and her husband, Mike Lozito, have had a home in Los Osos since 2014 and moved here permanently in 2020.  Margarete is the controller for Sequoia Transportation Services.  She enjoys kayaking, walking, quilting, and spending time outdoors. Margarete was motivated to become involved with securing public access to Cuesta Inlet because of her belief that everyone should have access to the open spaces and the natural world, especially to a place as unique as Cuesta Inlet.

Tracy is an attorney and the founder and President of Egoscue Law Group, Inc. Tracy has previously served as the Executive Officer of the State of California Regional Water Quality Control Board - Los Angeles Region and as the Executive Director of the Santa Monica Baykeeper (now known as LA Waterkeeper). Tracy has also practiced environmental litigation as a Deputy Attorney General for the California Department of Justice. Tracy has been appointed to serve on numerous agencies and Boards including the California Climate Action Registry by Governor Davis, the Technical Advisory Committee for the California Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response by the Speaker of the Assembly, and the Harbor Safety Committee for the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Complex. Tracy has served as a distinguished visiting scholar at California State University at Long Beach, teaching environmental policy and law, and in 2014, was appointed to serve on the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners for the Port of Long Beach, the 2nd largest port in the U.S., responsible for 50,000 jobs in the region and $200 billion in national and international trade. Tracy also serves on the Board of Directors for Mujeres de la Tierra, and the Bay Foundation.  Tracy and her husband have owned a home in Los Osos since 2020 and currently split their time between their homes here and in Long Beach.

Sandra Chandler is an Emmy-nominated documentary cinematographer now enjoying her retirement in the Central Coast community of Los Osos. 

Her academic background includes studying at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) followed by earning an MFA from the prestigious USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Her global non-fiction filmmaking earned her two Primetime Emmy nominations for her cinematography on prominent HBO documentaries.
Sandra is an energetic outdoor adventurer who enjoys cycling, hiking  and skiing, and can be found most days paddling the estuary and enjoying the splendid Cuesta Inlet with her artist wife, Liz Hale.