PAR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES - Key Persons
James Gary Maniery is the original founder of PAR and serves as the corporation chief financial officer and Director of Environmental Planning. He began his career in archaeology in 1975 working as a volunteer for the Nevada State Museum. Shortly after this volunteer effort, he was hired by the Archaeological Study Center, California State University, Sacramento to work on an excavation project near Walnut Grove, California. Gary earned his undergraduate degree in environmental studies and a graduate degree in anthropology from Sacramento State University, and has an environmental management degree from the University of California, Davis. Mr. Maniery's area of expertise includes both archaeological and ethnohistorical investigations and research within California, as well as environmental planning (with emphasis on transportation projects in California and United States Forest Service, Land Exchange undertakings).
As an archaeologist, Mr. Maniery has worked in both the private sector and for government agencies throughout California and in five other states (including Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Georgia and Alaska). In Alaska, Gary worked for the USDI, Bureau of Land Management (through a grant issued by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education) on two village sites at Paxon Lake, located in south-central Alaska. He also spent two seasons working for the USDI, United States Fish & Wildlife Service on monitoring work located on the Kenai Peninsula and excavations in extreme northeastern Alaska in the William O Douglas Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Gary also served as Six Rivers National Forest, Orleans Ranger District, as District Archaeologist; and as an archaeological technician on the Chief Joseph Dam (University of Washington Archaeological Survey) and St. Catherine's Island Anthropological Research projects (American Museum of Natural History). In a contractor's role, Mr. Maniery has been a Principal Investigator on dozens of California Forest Service cultural resources evaluation and inventory projects totaling over 150,000 acres. Gary has written or co-authored more than 300 technical reports for agencies and private firms throughout California, southwestern Oregon and Alaska.
Mary Maniery is cofounder of PAR and currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mary began her career in California archaeology in 1975 working on an historical site in downtown Chico. Since that time she has gained extensive professional experience in the private sector working on and managing cultural resources projects throughout California, western Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Washington. She served as an Archaeologist on the Plumas National Forest in California in 1978 and on the Mendocino National Forest (MNF) in 1979-80. While at MNF, she developed an oral history program that is still in use today.