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	<em style="font-size: 12px;">Today, there are over 4,000 Au Sable alumni around the world doing great things to serve and protect our precious natural world. Profiles in Stewardship shares the significant accomplishments, enduring effort, and lasting effectiveness of Au Sable alumni as they seek to do God&#39;s work in the world. We hope these stories create a space for mutual admiration, common purpose, and collective achievement among all those doing creation care. &nbsp;In two words, true community. To learn more, read Executive Director Fred Van Dyke&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://ausable.org/news_and_resources/blog/introducing_profiles_in_stewardship_by_fred_van_dyke_executive_director#.UX6fYrU3uSo">introduction to this blog series</a>.</em></p>
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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Dave-Timmer-250pxl.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; width: 200px; height: 150px; float: right;" />Dave Timmer (Au Sable Alum &#39;98; Grad Fellow &#39;04-&#39;05) serves as Stewardship Director for A Rocha USA in Northwest Washington. Timmer&#39;s talents and demands are many, as evidenced by his&nbsp;<a href="/news_and_resources/blog/conversations_local_agriculture_and_the_church#.UZvOT7U3uSo">three-part exchange</a> with Brook Wilke on the role of farmers markets in sustainability agriculture. His skills and ethic were honed through studies at Calvin College (B.S., Biology) and the University of Michigan (M.S., Restoration Ecology) and work as a Biologist with the National Park Service in Olympic Natural Park and as a Restoration Biologist with the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians in Washington State. We spoke with Timmer about his current work at A Rocha USA:</p>
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	<strong style="font-size: 12px;">What do you do in your current position?</strong></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 12px;">We&rsquo;ve recently unrolled a new slogan for A Rocha USA &ndash; Restoring People and Place&hellip;Together. That really captures what I do for A Rocha. I work on habitat conservation and watershed restoration projects and building our local food system in the place where I live &ndash; Lynden, WA. Truthfully, this gives me a bunch of hats &ndash; farmer, community developer, city planner, tree planter, teacher, and ecologist. My day can consist of grant writing, brainstorming land management ideas with a local landowner, planting onions, organizing the Lynden Farmers Market, meeting with a local pastor, or helping an intern measure trees in a nearby old-growth forest. The key component, though, is we are working on these things in our place with the people who live here with us. &nbsp;</span></p>
