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Proactive Conservation for Working Lands

Michael Mantell founded Resources Law Group to help design and administer initiatives that enable philanthropic foundations, individuals, landowners, and government agencies to achieve significant, lasting conservation results. He also helped create the strategically aligned but independent Resources Legacy Fund.

Since the late 1990s, Michael has designed and participated in programs that broadened the leadership and constituency for natural resources protection and achieved extensive conservation outcomes for land, water, ocean resources, and renewable energy. Michael helped lead the 2010 campaign that prevented a rollback of

California’s landmark climate change legislation. In the past decade, he has chaired two statewide campaigns that resulted in $7 billion of voter-approved conservation investments.

Michael previously served as undersecretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, overseeing its $2.8 billion budget; general counsel for the World Wildlife Fund; and a deputy city attorney in Los Angeles. Michael is a published author and recipient of several national conservation awards. He is a director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and serves on the Governing Council of The Wilderness Society.

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