Bamboo of the Americas Project Staff:

Gib Cooper, Executive Director
Gilberto Cortés, Regional Director (Mexico)
Sue Turtle, ABS-BOTA Treasurer
Dr. Margaret J Stern, Consulting Ecologist
Dr. Lynn Clark, Consulting Taxonomist (Chairwoman, BOTA-SAP Review Board
Dr. Teresa Mejia Saúles, BOTA-SAP Review Board (Mexico)
Ag. Eng. Ximena Londoño, BOTA-SAP Review Board (Colombia)
Dr. Tarciso Filgueiras, BOTA-SAP Review Board (Brazil)
Dr. Emmet Judziewicz, Consulting Taxonomist
Dr. Stinger Guala, Consulting Taxonomist
Dr. Jimmy Triplett, Consulting Taxonomist

Julian Duval, Quail Botanical Gardens
Mark Hoefs, Wrigley Botanical Garden
Derick Calderon, Coordinator for Guatemala
Luc Boerauve, Coordinator for Europe
Darrel DeBoer - Architect
Michael James Long - BOTA Patron (Secretary of the Oregon Bamboo Association-OB)
Sue Turtle - Advisor (Treasurer of the American Bamboo Society -ABS)
Ralph Evans - (a.k.a. “Rafa”) BOTA Patron, Bamboo Grower-Consultant
Rich Knitter - BOTA Webmaster
Robin McBride Scott - Honoring the Ancestors

Board of Directors, The American Bamboo Society:

Bill King, President and Southeast Chapter
Ned Jaquith - Vice-president
David King - Secretary
Sue Turtle - Treasurer
Bill Hollenback - Pacific NW Chapter
Gerald Morris - LGCC Chapter
Lennart Lundstrom - Hawaii Chapter
Dr. Lynn Clark - At-Large
Michael Bartholomew - Northeast Chapter
Jinhe Fu - International
Ian Connor - Oregon Chapter
Steve Muzos - Texas Chapter
Steve Stamper - Florida Caribbean Chapter