Bernard Zaleha
Biography
Bernie Zaleha has been a Sierra Club member since 1977. He was fired from an environmental law firm in 1992 and subsequently founded the Wildlands Interstate Legal Defense Fun. In 1999, Zaleha was featured in the Club's magazine, The Planet, and the article bragged that "In an early case he defended Earth First! activists sued by a logging-road builder and learned about the movement to end commercial logging on federal lands." The same article notes that since founding the Wildlands Legal Defense Fund, Zaleha now "makes his living suing the Forest Service."
Background
Vice President of the Board, Sierra Club; Defense attorney for Earth First! activists; founder, Wildlands Interstate Legal Defense Fund; Chairman, Sierra Club's National End Commercial Logging committee; president, the Constitutional Law Foundation
Associated Organizations and Foundations
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Organization: Sierra Club
Position: Vice President of the Board
Founded in 1892 by John Muir to "make the mountains glad," the Sierra Club is the oldest and arguably the most powerful environmental group in the...
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Organization: Earth First!
Position: Defense attorney
"It could have killed someone," said San Diego fire captain Jeff Carle. Three workers sleeping at a construction site were able to escape after the...
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