OFFICERS:
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SARAH BATES—President. Sarah is a senior fellow with the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Montana, with expertise in western water, public resource management, and collaborative governance. She has devoted the past 25 years of her professional life to community-based conservation that is oriented toward inclusive and practical solutions. Sarah has written and spoken extensively on western resource law and policy through university appointments, conservation advocacy positions, and consulting work. When she is not writing, teaching, or spending time with her two children, Sarah is likely climbing a mountain, exploring a river, or enjoying time with friends in the outdoors. |
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CINDY POETT—Vice President. Cindy lives on the North Fork of the Blackfoot River, where she participates in all aspects of the protection of the Blackfoot River Valley. She is active in the Blackfoot Legacy, the Blackfoot Challenge, the Ovando Historical Society, and the Ovando School Cultural Enrichment Committee. Cindy is also involved with the Montana Forest Stewardship Committee, the National Development Council of the McLaughlin Research Institute, and the Garden Club of America. She is an avid fly fisher, hiker, and horse-packer. |
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CAMERON LAWRENCE - Secretary. Cameron is an Associate Professor and the Poe Family Faculty Fellow in the School of Business Administration at the Univ. of MT. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and has completed a program at the Harvard Business School on improving corporate governance. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate levels and has won numerous teaching awards. In addition to his academic career, he sits on the Board of Directors for a national consumer electronics retailer. Cameron’s outdoor interests include skiing, fly-fishing, biking, and sporting clays. Prior to entering the business world and academia, he spent six years as a Smokejumper. |
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TIM POLICH—Treasurer. Tim is in his 22nd year of banking and manages a commercial loan portfolio as a Vice President at First Security Bank in Missoula. Serving on the Montana Water Trust board the past 5 years, Tim helped transition the Trust toward a successful consolidation with the Coalition. He has a history of active involvement in community-based nonprofit organizations, including the Grizzly Scholarship Assoc., and Griz Kidz, using connections made as a football player at the Univ. of Montana to create opportunities for area youth to achieve their academic and athletic goals. Tim is an avid whitewater rafter and enjoys exploring western rivers. |
MEMBERS:
| NICK BABSON serves as President of NCB Ventures, LLC, a private investment management company. Previously, he served as Chairman & CEO of Babson Bros. Co., a global manufacturer and distributor of dairy equipment and consumable supplies. Nick has held a variety of leadership positions in the agricultural and manufacturing industries, as well as with private equity funds. Nick’s civic commitments include service on several boards, including the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the Farm Foundation/Bennett Roundtable, and the Babson Center for Global Commerce. He and his wife are active on non-profit boards in Missoula, and fish as much as time allows. |
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| TRENT BAKER is an attorney with the Missoula law firm of Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind. He worked as a guide on western Montana’s rivers, while obtaining his graduate degrees in Environmental Studies and Law at the Univ. of MT. A passionate river advocate, Trent has served on the Milltown Redevelopment Group and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ River Recreation Advisory for Tomorrow Committee. He is active in Brennan’s Wave, a non-profit focused on rehabilitating dangerous irrigation diversions into multiple-use structures that are better for fish, boaters, and the community. Trent enjoys our mountains and rivers while skiing, hiking, biking and boating with his wife and daughters. |
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| BETH BRENNAN is a lawyer, a mother, a writer, and a teacher. She has advocated on behalf of the environment throughout her 18-year career as an attorney, including cases as varied as the KMTP "big rig" litigation, the Mitchell Slough stream access case, the coalbed methane litigation that held that the discharge water was a "pollutant," the Golden Sunlight mine reclamation case, and the defense of Initiative 137, which prohibited cyanide heap leach gold mining in Montana. After teaching at the UM Law School for five years, Beth is in private practice in Missoula, where she lives with her children and her four dogs, playing tennis and hiking the hills as often as she can. |
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| ALI DUVALL has lived and worked in western Montana for the past 18 years. Her passion and professional pursuits lie in the arena of community-based and landscape-scale conservation. She has worked for Five Valleys Land Trust and the Blackfoot Challenge, and now serves as Assistant Coordinator for the Intermountain West Joint Venture, a coalition of public and private partners seeking to conserve bird habitat through science and partnerships across 11 states in the West. When not working on conservation issues, Ali spends time with her daughter, family, and friends, and enjoys meeting people, experiencing new landscapes and communities, walking outdoors, and gardening. |
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CHRIS EYER owns Eyer Electrical Construction Inc. and is a third-generation electrician in Montana. His great-grandfather homesteaded on the banks of the Blackfoor River in 1898 near Helmville. Chris lives in Stevensville with his wife and two of his three children. He holds an Associate of Arts degree from Marymount College Palos Verdes, a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the Univ. of Montana, and a Master's degree in Buddhist Studies from the Univ. of Sunderland U.K. When he's not working, Chris is pulling his string of mules through the Bob or the Bitterroots or laying a fly on a riffle while floating down the Bitterroot or the Blackfoot River.
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| TIM FLYNN is President and Co-Owner of Anaconda Disposal, Inc. His family roots in the Upper Deer Lodge Valley go back to the 1890's. A career as a golf course superintendent taught Tim the importance of water quality and management of ecosystems. He and his wife and two daughteres spend many hours outdoors throughout the seasons and landscapes of the Clark Fork drainage. Tim has a special interest in hiking and fishing the mountain lakes of the Pintler and Flint Creek ranges. |
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| PAUL MOSELEY owns the Ruby Springs Lodge on the banks of the Ruby River near Twin Bridges, Montana, and has been a fly fishing guide for over 20 years. He holds a degree in business management from the University of La Verne in L.A. and is active in diverse organizations. Paul currently serves on the Stewardship Council of Montana Trout Unlimited; he is on the board of directors for Madison County Economic Development; he is board member for Kamilche Co. in Seattle; and he is a trustee for the University of La Verne. Paul lives in Missoula, and enjoys spending time with his wife, two children, and friends, particularly when it involves fly-fishing, travel, skiing, camping, tennis, mountain biking, and soccer. |
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| PAUL ROOS is a conservation land management rancher and consultant with a focus on Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). As an avid sportsman and businessman, Paul founded and managed a nationally respected outfitting business still operating after over 40 years. He was a founding director of Fishing Outfitters of Montana, the Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited, served on the Montana Board of Outfitters, and served two terms on the Governor’s Advisory Council for Private Lands and Public Wildlife. Paul dedicates significant energies to his twin passions: family and conservation. |
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| BETH SCHENK is a nurse, and holds the position of Sustainability Coordinator at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula. In that role, she is implementing its core value of stewardship to “people, resources, and earth” and is helping the hospital eliminate the use of toxins, decrease energy consumption, and shrink its carbon footprint. Beth is dedicated to community service, having served on the boards of the Montana Environmental Information Center and Glacier Ice Rink. A former fishing guide in Mongolia, Beth now prefers the waterways of the Clark Fork basin, and also enjoys playing hockey and gardening. |
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| TRACI SYLTE grew up playing in Pend Oreille Lake, the receiving waters of the Clark Fork. Always drawn to water, she earned a civil engineering degree specializing in open-channel hydraulics, and later a master’s degree in watershed science. Traci is the soil and water program manager for the Lolo National Forest, having worked for the agency for 22 years. She also operates a small consulting firm, providing services in environmental river engineering. Traci received one of the Forest Service’s highest physical science honors—the national “Hydrologist of the Year” award, and serves as a technical advisor on the State’s Future Fisheries Panel. She can also be found watching sunrises and sunsets with her daughter, playing a guitar by a camp fire, fly fishing, rafting, hiking, reading, skiing, playing hockey, and kurling. |
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| GERMAINE WHITE is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and represents the CSKT on the CFC board. She is Information and Education Specialist for the Natural Resources Department, Division of Fish, Wildlife, Recreation and Conservation, and is involved in the Tribes’ restoration work on the Jocko River and the Clark Fork-Blackfoot confluence. Germaine has a long history of board service at the local, state, and national levels, including the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission, the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group, the National Wildlife Fire Coordinating Group, and the Lower Flathead Valley Community Council. |
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Technical Advisors:
Vicki Watson, Ph.D., Missoula, MT
Jim Kuipers, P.E., Boulder, MT
Clark Fork Coalition Address:
140 4th St. W., Unit #1
Missoula, MT 59801
Mail:
PO Box 7593
Missoula, MT 59807
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T 406/542-0539
F 406/542-5632
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