Laurie Wayburn is co-founder and President of the Pacific Forest Trust. Wayburn has over 20 years experience in conservation-based sustainable development both nationally and internationally. She serves on several boards to further conservation and stewardship including the Land Trust Alliance and the Sustainable Forestry Board. A frequent speaker and writer on the values of sustaining our nation's forests, she is co-author of America's Private Forests.

Wayburn has also sought to further private forests through involvement with the Seventh American Forest Congress, University of California Center for Forestry, Oregon Board of Forestry Incentives Group and Society of American Forests Certification Task Force.