The CLF Team

Jeff Barnum is CLF’s Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper, working to address water quality issues throughout the Great Bay estuary.  Jeff comes to the position with great knowledge of the estuary, having served as president of the Coastal Conservation Association of NH (CCA), where he focused on the health of New Hampshire’s estuarine ecosystems.  As a recreational fisherman who has fished Great Bay and the Piscataqua River, Jeff has witnessed, first-hand, negative changes in the estuary caused by water pollution, such as the loss of eelgrass habitat.

Jeff has an extensive history of civic engagement.  With CCA, he played a leading role in establishing an oyster shell recycling program – collecting oyster shells from area restaurants and the public to establish new oyster beds in Great Bay for their water quality and habitat benefits.  While living in New Vineyard, Maine, Jeff was an accomplished woodsman and chaired the town’s board of selectman.  He also has engaged in legislative advocacy on forestry practices and transportation issues – advocacy work that was recognized by the Natural Resources Council of Maine – and was an appointee of Governor Angus King to Maine’s Advisory Committee on Radioactive Waste.  He continues to serve on the boards of CCA NH and Great Bay Trout Unlimited.