David D. Schmidt

Is a lifelong San Francisco Bay Area resident, naturalist, and environmental historian. He worked as a writer in the public affairs office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco from 1991 to 2021. An avid hiker and backpacker, he has led dozens of hikes for the Greenbelt Alliance, the Bay Area's leading land conservation organization (www.greenbelt.org), in the region's extensive public parklands.
David has volunteered on habitat restoration projects for the Golden Gate National Parks and the California Native Plant Society in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties from 1991 to the present. He is also the author of Citizen Lawmakers: The Ballot Initiative Revolution (Temple University Press, 1989). He has a bachelor's degree in history from Santa Clara University. Born in Mountain View, he lived in San Francisco for more than 50 years, and now lives in Santa Rosa.