Brian retired in 2025 after 21 years leading the California Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) program with the Water Education Foundation and 32 years as an Education Specialist at the Forestry Institute for Teachers, a program of the California Society of American Foresters. His entire career post Humboldt has been dedicated to educating K-12 students, teachers, and the general public about science and management of natural resources using much of what he learned in the HSU Forestry and Social Sciences teaching program - and plenty more learned from all the amazing teachers and partners he worked with since 1990. 

Brian retired, moved to Missouri, and was married in September of 2025, and now he finds himself standing at the same crossroads he stood on upon graduation from Humboldt. He's spent all these years on the path of teaching and education, and he is now enjoying the start of his journey into forest and land management, as he learns about the forests and other habitats of the Missouri Ozarks right in his own backyard. Life has been and continues to be quite an adventure!