Jim Haagen-Smit

The California Coastal National Monument

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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Wagon wheel in the Carrizo Plain National Monument

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Central California Advisory Council

Jim Haagen-Smit

Recreation

Term Expires 09/19/2008

Jim Haagen-Smit is an avid mountain bike enthusiast with a strong involvement in mountain bike recreation organizations and advocacy. He has served as president of the Sacramento Wheelmen, board of directors of the California Bicycle Coalition, and was the first president of the Folsom-Auburn Trail Riders Action Coalition. He helped form the first bicycle advocacy organization with the Placer County Transportation Planning Agency and has represented non-morotrized users on the California State Parks OHV Stakeholders Group. He has helped organize local volunteer efforts for trail maintenance and mountain bike trail patrols. He will represent recreation interests on the advisory council.

A software engineer at Hewlett-Packard in Roseville, he hold a bachelor of science degree in computer science from California State University, Chico.