Leadership

Respectful relationships around the table are the key to breakthroughs. Here are some of mine, mostly with those I have worked for and with, and a few against.
- Boone and Crockett Club
- Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
- Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Donner Foundation
- Ducks Unlimited
- Environmental Defense Fund
- National Conservation Leadership Institute
- National Wildlife Federation
- Natural Resource Results
- NatureServe
- Northwest Natural Resource Group
- OCEARCH
- Property and Environment Research Center
- Pope and Young Club
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- Safari Club International
- Sand County Foundation
- Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study
- Taking Care of Texas
- Texas A&M Research Foundation
- The Nature Conservancy
- Trout Unlimited
- Trust for Public Land
- U.S. Endowment for Forests and Communities
- Wild Sheep Foundation
Expertise

Intensive practice and advanced graduate degrees in subjects of:
- Water and Wetlands
- Land Management
- Public Lands and Property Rights
- Fish and Wildlife Management
- Forestry
- Sportsmen and Outdoor Recreation
Issues

Familiar with dozens of continuing issues and the conservationists involved in them, on topics including:
- Conservation funding
- Hunting access
- Farm Bill
- Energy development
- Clean Water Act guidance, regulations, and amendments
- Endangered Species (listing, consultation and permits, delisting, gray wolves, grizzly bears, Columbia River salmon, and steelhead)
- Wildlife disease
- Land use
- Private Land Incentives and Property Rights
- Community Collaboration
- Conservation Easements
Experience

A career built on field research, work with landowners, agency field offices, and non-profit groups, and service in state and federal government.
- White House policy advisor
- U.S. Senate Subcommittee Staff Director
- Idaho Governor's Office policy advisor
- Intermountain Forest Association program manager
- Property and Environment Research Center
- Ocelot Recovery Program
- Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study