MEGAN PONDER - Vice Chair
NEHALEM, OR

​Megan Ponder is an accomplished public policy professional, researcher, and a producer of the award-winning documentary The Story of Plastic. Megan’s work is focused on plastic pollution including regulatory policy, plastics production, and global recycling systems. She has consulted for global and national plastic pollution campaigns and initiatives and has worked with stakeholders representing government, industry, and community perspectives on plastic pollution and waste management. Megan is Cofounder of Peak Plastic Foundation and lives in the small town of Nehalem on the Oregon Coast where she is involved in local issues including forest practices, clean water, and wild fish conservation. She enjoys trail running, fly fishing, crabbing, and clam digging.
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Today, throughout the Snake River Basin, imperiled populations of salmon continue to die at rates far below sustainable replacement levels. Scientists have told us for decades that breaching the four federal dams in the lower Snake River. Congressman Mike Simpson of Idaho has an ambitious proposal to remove the dams and invest billions in energy, irrigation and transportation infrastructure.  But elected leaders in Washington and Oregon must step up too before we lose the fish that define the region’s ecology and cultural heritage. Good work is happening in places like the Lostine, but ultimately, the success of those collaborations depend on restoring a free-flowing Snake River. 

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