Robin Bullock holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology. She began her career in 1985 as a Process/Environmental Engineer with Stone Container Corporation where she designed, constructed and operated a tertiary water treatment facility in addition to coordinating the daily environmental operations at a pulp and paper plant. In 1988 she went to work for Willamette Industries as a Tour Foreman/Process Engineer at their pulp and paper facility in Oregon. Ms. Bullock returned to Montana in 1990 where she worked for MSE, Inc. until being hired by ARCO in 1991. As a Superfund Coordinator for ARCO, Ms. Bullock served as a project manager for the Anaconda Smelter Superfund Site. She was responsible for characterizing the site and developing a cost-effective, innovative remedy (a Jack Nicklaus golf course) that was ultimately selected by the EPA. Ms. Bullock was promoted to Senior Environmental Manager with responsibility for overall coordination of environmental negotiations, site characterizations, treatability test evaluations, and remedy selection for twelve operable sites comprising three NPL sites in Montana. In addition, she was responsible for managing potential liability of ARCO historic mining sites in Washington, Idaho, portions of Canada and nuclear sites in Pennsylvania. Most recently Ms. Bullock was named Northwest Regional Manager with overall environmental remediation and decommissioning responsibility for historic mining sites, exploration and production sites, refineries, retail stations, gas and power and pipelines in the Rocky Mountains, Canada and Alaska within the BP, Amoco, Castrol, and ARCO heritage company portfolios.
John Carlucci joined the Solicitor’s Office at the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1995. After completing a year in the Solicitor’s Honors Program, Mr. Carlucci was assigned to the Division of Parks and Wildlife in Washington, D.C. Mr. Carlucci received his law degree from the University of Virginia, where he received the law school’s Public Service Award. Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Carlucci was a gardener for the New York City Department of Parks for more than ten years. At the Solicitor’s Office, he represents the Department in CERCLA, OPA, and CWA natural resource damage assessment and restoration claims throughout the United States – including the Grand Calumet River, Fox River and Green Bay, Clark Fork, and the St. Louis River Estuary. Mr. Carlucci was assigned as Solicitor’s Office lead on natural resource damage legislative affairs, and also represented the Solicitor’s Office on a task force to review and revise the CERCLA Natural Resource Damage Assessment Regulation. He currently serves on DOI’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Advisory Committee. In addition to natural resource damage issues, Mr. Carlucci also does legal work relating to the Department’s responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, NEPA, the Parks Resource Protection Act, and Pesticide laws.
Phillip Cernera was educated at the University of Idaho. In 1982, Mr. Cernera started his formal career as a Fisheries Scientist working on Russian and Japanese Fishing boats in the Bering Sea. After 2 years of this work he became a Fisheries Scientist for the ShoBan Tribe of Idaho. After 7 years with the ShoBans he became an Environmental Scientist for a private consultant for a Seattle Based firm. After 3 years as a consultant he took a job as NRDA Program Manager for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. Now after over 14 years with the Tribe Mr. Cernera acts as Director of the Tribe’s Lake Management Department.
Brian J. Cleary has focused on Indian law litigation since joining Funke & Work in 1997. Before that, he was employed by the United States Department of Justice for seven
years in complex environmental litigation management. He has significant litigation, trial and appellate experience in environmental, bankruptcy, gaming submerged lands, hydropower, and tax law issues arising under federal and state statutes. Mr. Cleary was co-counsel in the successful trial and appellate cases upholding the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s ownership of submerged lands in Coeur d’Alene Lake. United States v. Idaho, 121 S.Ct. 2135 (2001). As lead trial attorney in Coeur d’Alene Tribe v. Asarco, et al., 96-122 (D. Idaho), he prevailed on liability claims against upstream mining companies under CERCLA’s natural resource damages provisions. 280 F.Supp.2d 1094 (2003). He has also succeeded in litigation to enjoin the state of Idaho’s motor fuel tax on Indian reservations in the state, Coeur d’Alene Tribe v. Hammond, 224 F.Supp.2d 1264 (D. Idaho 2002); aff’d 384 F.3d 674 (9th Cir. 2004); cert. denied, sub nom. 122 S.Ct. 1397 (2005), and has successfully defended challenges to Indian gaming in Idaho. He is a graduate of Villanova University School of Law, a member of the Pennsylvania and Idaho bars, and is admitted to the U.S. District Court of Idaho, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Matt Clifford is the conservation director and staff attorney for the Clark Fork Coalition, a Missoula-based conservation group that was instrumental in getting the upper Clark Fork River basin Superfund sites placed on the NPL list in the mid-1980s, and has been advocating the cleanup and restoration of those sites ever since. Matt has a B.A. from Northern Arizona University in Spanish and Journalism, and earned a J.D. from the University of Montana in 1995. Following law school, he clerked for a federal district court and practiced law in Missoula for several years. Matt has been with the Coalition since 2000. He served for five years on the advisory council that advises the governor of Montana on the expenditure of NRD dollars in the upper Clark Fork.
Robert Collins received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and remains licensed as a professional engineer. Subsequently, he graduated from the University of Southern California School of Law. From 1976 through 1991, Mr. Collins worked as a Deputy Attorney General for the California Department of Justice. There he specialized in public trust, natural resource, environmental and real property law, and litigation in those areas. During that period, Mr. Collins successfully tried a number of environmental and public access cases, involving coastal and riverfront property, in California state courts and defended the state in the subsequent appeals. Since November 1991, Mr. Collins has worked as the lead attorney and chief counsel for the State of Montana’s Natural Resource Damage (NRD) Program, which is part of the Montana Department of Justice. In 1993, Mr. Collins took on the additional role of supervisor of the Program and has remained in his dual role since then. The NRD Program is in charge of pursuing the State’s natural resource damage lawsuit against the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), which is now part of British Petroleum Company. Trial of that lawsuit was conducted in 1997-1998 and, before the court ruled, a major part of the case was settled, bringing in about $140 million in natural resource damages. The NRD claims in that lawsuit that were not settled remain pending, although another settlement remains a real possibility, which Mr. Collins is currently working on. In 1999, under Mr. Collins’ leadership, the NRD Program developed a process for expending the damages received on restoration projects in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin. In 2000, Carol Fox became the Program’s Restoration Chief and, since then, the State has approved the expenditure of about $50 million from the settlement on various restoration projects and land acquisitions in the basin.
Jock Conyngham is a Research Ecologist in the Environmental Laboratory of the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as well as principal of River Research and Restoration, LLC. His specialties include multi-scaled assessment and restoration of watersheds, streams and rivers, riparian zones, and aquatic populations. He is Principal Investigator on a program to build dam removal, retrofitting, and re-operations expertise in the Corps and its partners through the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Research Program. He is providing long term technical support to the restoration component of the Milltown dam removal, and an agreement to formalize his involvement in restoration of the Warm Springs to Milltown reach of the Clark Fork is currently in process. Jock received a Master of Forest Science and a Master of Philosophy from Yale University. Prior to joining ERDC in 2002, Jock was Director of Watershed Assessment and Geomorphic Restoration for the national office of Trout Unlimited, where he worked for nine years. He lives in Evaro, Montana.
Raymond Cross, Professor of Law at the University of Montana School of Law, teaches introductory and advanced courses in Federal Indian Law, as well as Public Land and Natural Resources Law. He also advises the Public Land & Resources Law Review, and he coaches the National Native American Law Students’ Moot Court team that placed second nationally in 2004. He works extensively with Indian tribes, Indian organizations, and federal agencies on issues of Indian education, tribal self-determination, and cultural and natural resources preservation. Professor Raymond Cross’ legal career in Indian Country is chronicled in a new book entitled Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes and the Trial That Forged A Nation (Little, Brown Publishing Co. 2004). Professor Cross is a 1973 graduate of Yale Law School. He began his legal career as a staff attorney with California Indian Legal Services (C.I.L.S.) in its Mendocino County office located in Ukiah, California. He later served from 1975-80 as the Indian Law Support Center Director for Native American Rights Fund (NARF), a public interest law firm located in Boulder, Colorado. During his tenure at NARF he represented the Klamath Indian Tribe in its successful litigation effort to establish its time immemorial reserved water right for the preservation of the tribe’s aboriginal hunting, fishing, gathering, and trapping rights within the environmentally significant Klamath Marsh region of south central Oregon. He also represented the Pasqua Yaqui Tribe, which resides in the Sonora Desert of southern Arizona, in its successful effort to secure Congressional recognition of its aboriginal status as an American Indian tribe entitled to federal protection and federal services. Professor Cross returned in 1981 to serve as tribal attorney for his tribal people, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. During his tenure as tribal attorney he presented two oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his tribal people, resulting in two Indian law opinions that opened state courts to tribal damage actions against non-Indian defendants and that re-affirmed fundamental principles of tribal sovereign immunity to suit. He also represented his tribal people in their long standing just compensation claim against the United States for its 1949 taking of over 156,000 acres of reservation land as the site for the Garrison Dam, the world’s fourth largest rolled earth dam. In 1992, Congress awarded the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation over $149.2 million in just compensation for wrongs imposed on the tribal people by the Garrison Dam.
Russ Forba has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 30 years. He currently serves as Senior Remedial Project Manager and as the project manager for the Berkeley Pit Superfund project in Butte. Mr. Forba is a graduate of Penn State University.
Carolyn Fox is the Restoration Program Chief with the Natural Resource Damage Program at the Montana Department of Justice. She joined the Program in 2000 when it started its restoration efforts in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin. She manages a restoration grants process aimed at improving the natural resources of the Basin and the public’s use and enjoyment of those resources. Previously, Carol managed TMDL projects for the State of Idaho for two years and managed the Montana State Superfund Program for 12 years. She received her M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana and her B.S. in biology from the College of William and Mary.
Lisa Gover is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, School of Law, admitted to the New Mexico Bar in 1993. Though now an inactive member of the N.M. Bar, Ms. Gover is a consultant with 25 years of tribal government and policy advocacy experience. From environmental and international issues to water rights and welfare reform, Ms. Gover has a wide breadth of tribal governance and policy development experience. Her work experience includes five years as Program Director for the National Tribal Environmental Council’s Superfund Program, during which time she coordinated the Superfund Working Group and directed tribal Superfund research. Ms. Gover is currently a member of two federal advisory committees – the Department of Interior’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment Committee and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) (as nominee of 2 Tribes) to the United States Representative to the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. The GAC is authorized pursuant to the NAFTA Environmental Accords. The committee is one of three that advises the EPA Administrator on tri-lateral environmental issues of Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Kathy Hadley lives on a ranch along the Clark Fork River near Galen, in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin. She and her husband raised two boys in the community of Deer Lodge and have been citizen activists on Superfund clean-up issues in the basin for the last 20 years. Ms. Hadley is a board member of the citizen-group the Clark Fork River Technical Advisory Committee and was appointed by the Governor to the Upper Clark Fork River Basin Remediation and Restoration Education Advisory Council. Since 1997, she has served as Executive Director of the National Center for Appropriate Technology, located in Butte. She has a BS in Biology and MS in Biology from State University College at Buffalo. Her sister, Lois Gibbs, is the renowned community activist whose work in the 1970s on Love Canal led to the creation of the Superfund law.
Joe Hovenkotter is a Staff Attorney for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. He has worked for the Tribes since 1994. Joe received a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences from Central Washington University in 1980 and a J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law in 1994. He represents the CS&K Tribes in their natural resource damages issues, including Clark Fork River Superfund issues.
Thomas C. Jensen is a nationally recognized expert in natural resources, energy and environmental law and policy. He represents business, government, and not-for-profit clients before federal and state regulatory agencies and Congress, and frequently serves as strategic counsel to clients facing complex challenges at the intersection of law, policy, and politics. He also represents clients in commercial disputes and regulatory enforcement actions. Mr. Jensen is a member of the federal government's Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Advisory Committee. A certified mediator, Mr. Jensen chaired the federal government's National Environmental Conflict Resolution Advisory Committee. He is a Trustee of the Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources of the University of Wyoming. Prior to joining Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Tom headed the environmental and natural resource practice in the Washington office of Troutman Sanders LLP. Before that, he served in the White House Council on Environmental Quality as Associate Director for Natural Resources from 1995-1997; Executive Director of the Grand Canyon Trust from 1992-1995; Majority Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water and Power, from 1989 -1992; and Deputy Executive Secretary of the U.S.-Canada Pacific Salmon Commission from 1987-1989. Mr. Jensen graduated from Lewis and Clark Law School in 1983, and from the University of Southern California in 1980. Lewis and Clark Law School presented its first Distinguished Environmental Law Graduate Award to Mr. Jensen in 1997.
Elizabeth Kronk, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Montana School of Law, teaches courses in environmental and Indian law. She has taught federal Indian policy and a seminar addressing contemporary issues in Indian Country. Before joining the UM law faculty, Professor Kronk practiced environmental, Indian, and energy law as an associate in the Washington, D.C., offices of Latham & Watkins LLP and Troutman Sanders LLP. While in Washington, D.C., she also served as President of the Native American Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Professor Kronk currently serves as chair of the Federal Bar Association (FBA) Mid-Year Indian Law Conference and is responsible for the FBA Indian Law Section's quarterly newsletter. Professor Kronk graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Communication. She received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she also served on the Michigan Law Review. Professor Kronk is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
Doug Martin is an Environmental Scientist with Montana Department of Justice Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP). Doug has focused on restoration actions at the Milltown Reservoir and Clark Fork River sites since joining the Montana Department of Justice NRDP in 2001. Along with Pat Saffel of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Doug continues as the State’s co-lead in the design and implementation of the Milltown restoration actions planned for the Clark Fork River and Blackfoot River. Doug is also the State’s lead for Clark Fork River site restoration planning. Doug received a B.S. from Montana State University in Fish and Wildlife Management (1986) and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Montana Tech (1992). Prior to joining NRDP, Doug worked for the Department of Environmental Quality and as a private consultant.
Mike McGrath was elected Montana's 19th attorney general in November 2000 and was unopposed for his second term in 2004. In his dual role as the state's chief law enforcement officer and legal official, McGrath oversees a staff of more than 700, including attorneys, forensic scientists, investigators, Montana Highway Patrol troopers, motor vehicle professionals, gambling control specialists, information technology professionals and support staff members. Prior to his election, McGrath served five terms as Lewis and Clark County Attorney. In his 18 years as a prosecutor, McGrath focused on family violence issues, including domestic abuse and sexual assault of children. A Butte native, McGrath earned a degree in business administration from the University of Montana in 1970 and graduated from Gonzaga University Law School in 1975. He was a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer fellow in Reno, Nevada, providing legal services to low-income clients. McGrath is a veteran of the United States Air Force. As a member of the Montana Land Board, McGrath has been an advocate for public access to state lands and continued responsible management of timber sales on state lands as a means to support Montana schools. Attorney General McGrath has been an outspoken advocate for the removal of the Milltown Dam on the Clark Fork River near Missoula. He also actively supported EPA Superfund designation for Libby, a northwestern Montana community facing asbestos contamination caused by years of vermiculite mining. He is a former chair of the Conference of Western Attorneys General and served as president of the Montana County Attorneys' Association.
Jon Mueller is the Director of Litigation for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) in Annapolis, MD. CBF is the largest organization solely dedicated to restoring and preserving the Chesapeake Bay. With over 170,000 members, the Foundation conducts education, restoration, and lobbying throughout the 64,000 square mile watershed. While CBF has been involved in litigation throughout its almost 40 year history, the Litigation Department was formed in 2004. Prior to coming to CBF, Mr. Mueller was a Senior Attorney with the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section. During his time at DOJ Mr. Mueller worked on several natural resource damage actions including the Sacramento River train derailment,
the Montrose DDT dumping litigation, and several Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary restoration actions including the trial against Mel Fisher and the trial and settlement of the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock action.
Peter Nielsen is the Environmental Health Supervisor for the Missoula City-County Health Department. He received his M.S. degree in Environmental Science from the University of Montana in 1987. He has been with the City-County Health Department for 14 years, where he has leadership responsibilities for the Missoula Valley Water Quality District. Mr. Nielsen represents the Board of County Commissioners and City of Missoula on all matters related to the Milltown Reservoir and other Clark Fork River Basin Superfund sites. He has been involved professionally in the Clark Fork Superfund sites since 1983. Mr. Nielsen was the Director of the Clark Fork Coalition in the mid-1980s. He helped resist premature settlement of the State’s litigation against Arco, and supported Legislative funding for the creation of the Natural Resource Damage Program and litigation. He is a member of the design review teams for remediation and restoration, and oversees sampling of domestic wells as part of the remedial action monitoring plan. He is also the County staff representative to the Milltown Redevelopment Working Group, which has proposed development of publicly owned parks, trail, river access facilities and an interpretive center following site remediation and restoration.
Robert W. Ricker, Ph.D., began his career in natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) while working on biological assessments for the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He has assisted and directed damage assessments and restoration planning for numerous oil spill cases over the past fifteen years along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. He also has worked on various damage assessments for large complex waste site cases covering a broad range of organic and inorganic contaminants that affect diverse ecosystems and involve multiple potentially responsible parties. For many of these incidents, he served in lead roles during response to oil spills, design and organization of injury assessments, planning restoration projects, and negotiating case settlements. He also participated in and helped to establish joint working groups for state and federal agencies to meet with industry representatives and discuss ways to build or improve cooperation for conducting damage assessments. Dr. Ricker received his Ph.D. in marine botany from the University of Melbourne and has worked in the fields of marine botany, marine ecology, and biochemistry. He has extensive field experience studying marine communities from polar to tropical regions. He worked from 1991 – 2001 on NRDA cases for the Office of Spill Prevention and Response in the California Department of Fish and Game, where he was the Chief of the Resource Assessment Unit. He has been with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 2001, and he is currently the Acting Chief of the Damage Assessment Center in NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration.
William Rodgers began teaching at the University of Washington School of Law in 1967, spent seven years at Georgetown University Law School, and returned to the University of Washington in 1979. He has visited at the law schools at Hawai'i, Florida, Arizona State, Miami, and Maine. Professor Rodgers specializes in natural resource law and is recognized as one of the "founders" of environmental law. He now teaches environmental law, law and biology, and oceans and coastal law. He takes an active role in the course on Environmental Law and Litigation and in the Kathy and Steve Berman Environmental Law Clinic that commenced operation in Autumn 2003. Professor Rodgers was selected by the law faculty as the University’s recipient of the Bloedel Professorship of Law from 1987-1992. In 1999, through an endowed professorship gift to the School of Law by the Bullitt family, recognizing the merit and achievements of one of the University’s most distinguished scholars and teachers, Professor Rodgers was selected the first Stimson Bullitt Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Washington. He is now serving his second five-year appointment as the Stimson Bullitt Professor of Environmental Law. Professor Rodgers is admitted to the Bar in New York, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and has served as an attorney for various environmental and Indian Law cases. He has appeared in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Indian tribes. He published the Handbook of Environmental Law, in 1977, with a second edition in 1994; a case book, Energy and Natural Resources Law, in 1983; a four-volume treatise on environmental law in 1986, 1988 and 1992; and scores of essays on environmental law. Professor Rodgers just concluded serving on The National Academies' Defining Best Available Sciences for Fisheries Management committee. He completed a six-year term as a member of the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Academy of Sciences. He chaired an Academy Committee on Land Acquisition, whose report was published in 1993. His recent research interests include the subjects of law, biology, human behavior, and especially environmental law in Indian country.
Lynn Scarlett was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior on November 2005, a post she took on after 4 years as the Department's Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget. She served as Acting Secretary of the Department upon the resignation of former Secretary Gale Norton effective April 1, until the confirmation of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on May 26, 2006. She serves on the Executive Committee of the President's Management Council. Ms. Scarlett coordinates Interior's environmental policy initiatives to implement the President's executive order on cooperative conservation, serving on the White House Cooperative Conservation Task Force. From June 2003-2004, she chaired the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council, an interagency and intergovernmental forum for implementing the National Fire Plan and 10-Year Implementation Plan. She co-chairs the President and First Lady's Preserve America initiative on historic preservation and heritage tourism. She also co-chairs the Recreation Fee Leadership Council, a federal interagency group to coordinate recreation fee policy and practices on federal lands. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Udall Foundation as the Department of the Interior representative. Prior to joining the Bush Administration in July 2001, she was President of the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, a nonprofit current affairs research and communications organization.
Ms. Scarlett is author of numerous publications on incentive-based environmental policies. Ms. Scarlett received her B.A. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also completed her Ph.D. coursework and exams in political science and political economy.
Jon Sesso, since 1991, has been the Director of the Planning Department in Butte-Silver Bow, a consolidated city-county government in Southwestern Montana. He also coordinates environmental cleanup (Superfund) activities in Butte, as part of the Upper Clark Fork Mega Superfund Site. Previously, Mr. Sesso served as the Director of the Montana Natural Resource Information System at the Montana State Library in Helena, Montana, and as VP-Operations for the National Center for Appropriate Technology in Butte, working on a variety of conservation and renewable energy projects. Mr. Sesso received a B.A. in Communications and a Master’s Degree in Communications and Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, Mr. Sesso serves on the Montana Land Information Advisory Council, the Upper Clark Fork River Basin Steering Committee, and the ARCO Litigation Legislative Oversight Committee. He is a member of the Montana Association of Planners; past appointments include the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (Superfund reauthorization issues – 1993-94) and the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (facility siting issues – 1995-96). Mr. Sesso was also elected in 2004 as Butte’s Representative for House District 76 in the Montana Legislature.
Brian Spears is a Resource Contaminants Specialist at the USFWS Upper Columbia Fish and Wildlife Office in Spokane, Washington. Among other things, he conducts ecological toxicology related biomonitoring field work and provides technical assistance to USEPA regarding Superfund cleanup and restoration in the Coeur d'Alene Basin. Brian is the USFWS field station representative on the Coeur d'Alene Basin Natural Resource Trustee Council and serves as the field lead on Coeur d'Alene Basin NRDAR restoration. Brian also serves as the Chair of the Technical Leadership Group advising the Coeur d'Alene Basin Environmental Improvement Project Commission on Coeur d'Alene Basin Superfund related issues. Brian previously spent time working on ecological toxicology issues, risk assessments and Superfund cleanup at Crab Orchard and Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuges. Brian earned his Masters degree in Wildlife Science at Texas Tech University and Bachelors degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Brian currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Sarah Bates Van de Wetering is a Senior Fellow with the Public Policy Research Institute at the University of Montana. She holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law (1988) and a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and Political Science from Colorado State University (1984). Ms. Van de Wetering has written extensively on natural resources policy and law, beginning with a book about western water policy co-authored with Marc Reisner in 1990. While serving as the Associate Director at the University of Colorado's Natural Resources Law Center, she published three books, several law review articles, and numerous research reports and papers. Ms. Van de Wetering helped establish and was the managing editor of the Chronicle of Community, a publication of the Northern Lights Research & Education Institute in Missoula, Montana. The journal culminated in a book published by Island Press, Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West, of which Ms. Van de Wetering is a contributing editor. She serves on the advisory board of the William Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, the board of directors of the Clark Fork Coalition, and is a fellow in the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership Program.
John Wardell has served as the Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 8 Montana Office since 1983. Previously he served as the Program Manager for the EPA Region 8 Superfund Program from 1981-1983. Mr. Wardell received a B.S. in Forestry, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Forest Pathology from Michigan State University, as well as an M.B.A. from Colorado State University. He is Retired Military, U.S. Army.
