{"id":251724,"date":"2026-04-04T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251724\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:53:14","slug":"nature-conservancy-exec-named-to-state-park-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251724\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Conservancy Exec Named To State Park Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California executive director of the Nature Conservancy has been named to the State Park and Recreation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Charlton &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Bonham, of Berkeley, by Gov. Gavin Newsom was announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bonham was the director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife from 2011 to 2025, according to the Governor&#8217;s Office. He held multiple positions at Trout Unlimited from 2000 to 2011, including California director and senior attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Bonham was a member of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Board from 2010 to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The position requires Senate confirmation. Compensation is $100 per diem.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24\/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California executive director of the Nature Conservancy has been named to the State Park and Recreation Commission.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-251724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}