In this life history interview, Travis discusses his work both the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission and the California Coastal Commission, focusing on accounts of particular preservation and development projects including the restoration of marshland areas around the San Francisco Bay. The interview also covers in detail Travis’s work documenting the threat of sea level rise as a result of climate change and how the Bay Area might plan for such a transformation.
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Will "Trav" Travis, leading environmental regulator for the public interest ; interviews conducted by Martin Meeker in 2015.
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Will Travis was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1943. He attended Penn State University as both an undergraduate and graduate student, studying architecture and regional planning. From 1970 to 1972 he worked as a planner for the then nascent San Francisco Bay Conversation and Development Commission (BCDC). In 1972 he moved to the newly established California Coastal Commission, where he worked in various capacities until 1985. In 1985 Travis returned to BCDC first as deputy director then as the agency’s director beginning in 1995. He retired from BCDC in 2011 and continues to work as a consultant.
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