Max Bliss | Engineer-in-Training

Contact Max at mbliss@snohomishcd.org or 425-512-1482.

Max grew up in coastal New England, earning degrees in Spanish and Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, before relocating to Washington after a brief hiatus hiking the high deserts of the Colorado Plateau. He previously worked at a renewable energy firm designing large scale solar and wind projects, while also serving as president of his local land trust, where he took part in marshland restoration and public access initiatives. You can most often find him on a trail, wandering from one place to another.

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What do you like about living in the Pacific Northwest?

The Pacific Northwest’s diversity of plants and animals (especially birds), access to remote and beautiful wilderness areas, and sheer size of its trees – I’d never seen any living thing so tall nor so wide before I arrived – make every day feel like a new adventure.

Why do you work here (at the District)?

I believe that the conservation of our collective natural resources and the preservation of wild spaces and wildlife are causes worth fighting for. The benefits of a healthy ecosystem are impossible to quantify, impacting positively not only the world at large, but the core aspects of the human experience itself.

Bonus fact(s)!

• I don’t recall spending much time camping as a kid, but in recent years I have fallen in love with sleeping outside in the mountains, the sound of chirping cicadas or scuffling deer hooves close at hand, with nothing to wake up to but a distant hazy sunrise.