Shanna Atherton-Bauer

is the Director for the Division of Land Resource Protection at the California Department of Conservation. She oversees the state’s agricultural land conservation programs as well as programs that support regional efforts to meet the state’s natural and working lands goals. Shanna led the development of the state’s Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program, which is designed to support the strategic repurposing of agricultural lands likely to come out of production as a result of the state’s groundwater sustainability efforts. She also helped launch the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program and has over 10 years of professional experience in the environmental planning, sustainable agriculture, and land conservation fields.