Jim lloyd

Jim is a retired Chassis Engineering Manager with 32 years of experience at General Motors followed by 8 more years of engineering at Sodecia N.A. and Comprehensive Logistics. He is a long time resident of Highland Township Oakland County and along with his entire family has restored two historic rural farm homes. His current residence is situated on a 30 acre conservation easement held by Six Rivers. In the 1980s and 1990s he served his community with positions on the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Planning Commission.

Following his retirement from General Motors in 2001, Jim became intensely interested in the Nature and natural values of the world immediately around him. From 2010 to 2017 Jim led the Six Rivers Adventure League which met weekly year round to enjoy kayaking, hiking, snowshoeing, bicycling and Nordic skiing in the public lands and trails of southeast Michigan. Jim was a member of the Oakland Land Conservancy prior to its reinvention into Six Rivers Land Conservancy where he has been continuously serving as a Board Member and occasionally an officer and currently serves on the Stewardship Committee. Jim also was the President and a founding member of the Highland Conservancy which merged with Six Rivers in 2015. In 2012 through 2014 he represented Six Rivers as a member of a task force studying Mitigating Risks of Climate Change led by the Huron River Watershed Council and culminated in his presenting at Land Trust Alliance Rally in 2014.

To further his understanding of nature, Jim enrolled in the inaugural Michigan State University Extension Conservation Stewards class in 2016 and he has served as a class assistant for every subsequent Conservation Stewards class in Oakland County including the recent 2021 class where Jim and his son Jake were Commencement keynote speakers. Jim also served the MSU Extension as Oakland County Leadership Council member for six years.  In 2011 he was sponsored by MSUE to participate in the Environment and Natural Resources Governance Fellowship Program held on the MSU Campus.

Jim spends extensive time stewarding his 30 acre homestead conservation easement including prescribed burning with his own volunteer crew.