Raymond Paddock is the Environmental Coordinator for the Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Native Lands and Resources Department, which is a federally recognized tribe. Raymond is responsible for writing, managing, and implementing program grants based off our tribes’ natural resource and environmental concerns that may have an effect on our people’s way of life in Southeast Alaska.
For several years Raymond has coordinated Tlingit & Haida’s environmental program to provide training activities, educational assistance and coordination statewide and regionally on environmental and natural resource concerns.
Raymond is also currently serving on the Region 10 Regional Tribal Operations Committee (RTOC) Chairman. The RTOC’s primary function is a partnership with the US EPA to further tribal environmental objectives and to serve a liaison between the tribes and EPA.