Marty Griffin

Griffin has been widely honored for his decades of environmental work in helping to preserve numerous sensitive wildlife habitats in Sonoma and Marin County. He lives in Belvedere, California.\n', '

Griffin was born in Ogden, Utah, and his family moved to California in his youth. Exposure to nature as a Boy Scout gave him a love of wild places and fly fishing. He studied medicine and graduated from Stanford University, subsequently setting up medical practice as an internist in Marin County.\n', '

Griffin has stated his environmental heroes include John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt and Congressman William Kent, the latter of whom helped establish Marin’s Muir Woods National Monument, the Marin Municipal Water District watershed, and started the movement to preserve Mt. Tamalpais and West Marin. Griffin has also noted the influence of Caroline S. Livermore, a founder of the Marin Conservation…