Chad Phillips A.I.C.P., has 35 years of experience in various fields of land use, including US Army cartographer/terrain analyst, mining reclamation specialist, and, most recently, public sector planner. In 1998, he was hired as a senior planner for Routt County, Colorado and, since 2007, proudly serves as the director of planning. Chad considers the Routt County Planning [...]
Skye Schell is a Jackson resident with a decade of experience in conservation. Before serving as Executive Director, Skye led the Alliance’s Civic Engagement program and Conservation Leadership Institute for three years, building a powerful base of community and political support for conservation. Skye’s love for wildlife and wild places began as a child learning [...]
Steven W. Running received his Ph.D. in Forest Ecology from Colorado State University, and has been with the University of Montana, Missoula since 1979, where he is a University Regents Professor of Global Ecology. His primary research interest is the development of global and regional ecosystem biogeochemical models integrating remote sensing with bioclimatology and terrestrial [...]
Dr. Sarah Reed is the Director of Applied Conservation Science for the Americas Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. In this role, she supports WCS field staff to connect science to conservation action, ensuring that our conservation strategies have a robust scientific foundation and that our research is translated effectively to measurable conservation outcomes. Sarah [...]
Laura Ziemer has worked on collaborative, water-saving projects with agricultural producers, watershed groups, and federal and state agencies for almost two decades. Laura started Trout Unlimited’s (TU’s) water program by establishing TU’s Montana Water Project office in 1998. She has helped grow TU’s water work to nine western states to restore and maintain streamflows for [...]
With a background in environmental science, management, and law, Renee lends her legal expertise in administrative processes, legislative language and judicial rulings to CLLC’s policy work, with the goal of promoting public policies that facilitate ecological connectivity and large landscape conservation. While at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa [...]
Andrew Hansen is Professor in the Ecology Department and Director of the Landscape Biodiversity Lab at Montana State University. He teaches macroecology to undergraduates and landscape ecology to graduate students. His research focuses on interactions among biodiversity, climate change, and land use, with an emphasis on landscape management and protected areas. He received a Ph.D. [...]
Kathy is the Idaho Conservation Coordinator for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition where she directs the Idaho campaigns and is the program lead for GYC’s recreation project. Prior to her work at GYC, Kathy was a two-term Teton County, Idaho Commissioner where she helped lead an effort to create a new (post boom) comprehensive plan focused [...]
Brooke Regan is organizing a project for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition to examine outdoor recreational use and conservation goals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Whether studying pine beetle outbreaks in Colorado, grizzly bear food habits in Montana, or the values of modern recreation and conservation in the Greater Yellowstone, Brooke loves finding answers relevant to [...]
Randy Carpenter Randy Carpenter has spent many years working with community leaders in the Northern Rockies, helping them understand the challenges that come with growth and change, and tailor locally-based solutions to those challenges. Before joining Future West in 2014, Randy was a community planner in Iowa, followed by 13 years with the Sonoran Institute’s [...]
