Who We Are

HABITAT WORKS mission is to inspire passion and commitment in caring for the ecological health of Planet Earth by supporting volunteer stewardship projects in our local wildlands.

Kim Clark and Tom Persons are co-founders of Habitat Works, a 501c3 nonprofit fiscally sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (S.E.E.).  Since 2003, Kim and Tom have engaged over 3000 volunteers on Southern California’s national forests, wildlife refuges, state parks and private preserves, contributing over 32,000 boots-on-the-ground hours to vital habitat improvements.  Kim and Tom bring extensive field experience and accomplishment to the work of public lands stewardship and habitat restoration.
 

 

Kim Clark, the managing director of Habitat Works loves ecology and all the interdependent intricacies of nature's flora and fauna.  Kim is a plant enthusiast and has worked for California Native Plant Society coordinating rare plant surveys throughout California’s Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. She has over fifteen years of field project management experience, from agency collaboration, project development and logistics, promotion, volunteer preparation, field safety and hands-on project implementation.  Kim documents project progress and accomplishments, records field data, creates reports & maps, and handles safety and compliance issues for volunteers and interns. 

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Tom Persons, the director of field operations for Habitat Works has over 40 years experience in wildland stewardship work, participating with many environmental organizations since the mid-1970s.  He managed TreePeople’s Mountain Forestry Program for seven years, generating over 350 tree-planting projects in collaboration with USFS staff on three national forests. At Habitat Works, Tom manages project implementation in the field including volunteer training and management, work methods and flow, field identification of plants and wildlife, on-the-ground logistics, quality control, orchestration of work to meet objectives, and volunteer support in the field.
 

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Watering hole (wallowing hole) restoration, Hungry Valley State Park

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Mailing Address:
Habitat Works
3442 Foothill Blvd., #130
La Crescenta, CA  91214

E-mail:  wildlife@habitatwork.org
Phone:  818-353-4653