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Lisa Gerloff, Chair – Missoula, MT
Lisa received a BA in geology from the University of Minnesota, Morris and a MS in geology from the University of Calgary. Lisa has worked trail crew and forest inventory for the Forest Service and has been a teacher and mentor in the outdoor therapeutic education field. She now works at The University of Montana, where she coordinates the Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, a multi agency/university partnership which provides research, technical assistance and education to federal resource managers, and the Wilderness Management Distance Education Program.
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Tom Kovalicky, Vice Chair – Grangeville, ID
Tom retired from his 30 year US Forest Service career in 1991. After working in various forests in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, he now resides in Grangeville, Idaho. Tom is or has been a member of the Society of American Foresters, Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Idaho Outfitters and Guides Licensing Board, Idaho Rivers Unlimited, National Smoke Jumpers Association, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Foundation, Boy Scouts of America, local Chamber of Commerce, as well as others.
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Dale Williams, Treasurer – Florence, MT
Dale is a CPA accredited in business valuation and a certified valuation analyst. He received his undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and Chemical Sciences from California State University, Chico and a Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Washington. His professional practice is solely in the areas of business valuation, litigation support, and expert witness testimony. Dale grew up camping and hiking across the country with his family for months at a time in a nine passenger Chrysler station wagon with the pop-up camper towed behind. In 1994 he moved his family to the Bitterroot Valley from Seattle primarily to be closer to the camping, hiking, canoeing, kayaking and skiing that he loves. In his spare time you will usually find him hiking, fly fishing, and cross country skiing, in Western Montana or hanging out with his Golden Retriever cross Mollie, the best, smartest, most beautiful dog in the world.
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Jane Holman, Secretary – Moscow, ID
Jane was raised in the backwoods of Idaho, and is a University of Montana graduate. She spent 1968-72 at the Moose Creek Ranger Station within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness before making the leap to Washington, DC, where she spent 29 years working for the U.S. Department of Education. Within a month of retirement in 2004, she bought a house in Moscow, Idaho, and returned to her roots, and the far less humid climate of the Northwest. The Selway country captured her heart from the beginning, and she is delighted to be participating in the stewardship of this wonderful area.
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Bob Schumaker, Board Member – Hamilton, MT
Bob grew up in the Bitterroot Valley, and spent the summers of his youth on the Selway River at the Magruder Ranger Station where his father was a district ranger. He worked his way through the University of Idaho as a smokejumper. After retiring as a nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy, Bob moved back to the Bitterroot and now lives in Hamilton, Montana. Bob volunteers every year as a fire lookout on the Salmon Mountain Lookout in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.
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John McBoyle, Board Member – Grangeville, ID
John retired in 2000 from farming/ranching after 37 years. He is an avid backcountry skier, fly fisherman, and hiker. John thoroughly enjoys road and mountain biking, and mushroom hunting. He has been involved with National Ski Patrol, hospital, highway, and agricultural boards, Land Use Planning Commission, and is currently working with a small group to redesign and enlarge our local ski area. John joined the SBF in the fall of 2008. He believes that foundation-led stewardship is the best method to allow access to our wilderness and adjacent wildlands in an environmentally sensitive way so that others may enjoy what he enjoys.
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Ed Krumpe, Board Member – Moscow, ID
Dr. Ed Krumpe is a Professor of Resource, Recreation & Tourism in the University of Idaho’s College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dr. Krumpe is the Principal Scientist of Wilderness Management of the University of Idaho Wilderness Research Center, for which he served as director for six years. He has over 17 years’ experience in conducting research and teaching about recreation and tourism management, wilderness and wild and scenic river planning, natural resource communication, and public involvement and conflict resolution. He has conducted workshops and training in wilderness management, limits of acceptable change (LAC) planning, and public involvement for federal, state and international agencies.
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Diane Pettit, Board Member – Cherrylane, ID
Diane retired from a 30-year career in journalism, as a reporter and editor. Her introduction to the Selway-Bitterroot came during a wild, early spring ride on the raging Selway River in the early 1970s, and her love of the wilderness has continued with summer backpacks and a memorable ski trip through the area. She lives along the Clearwater River east of Lewiston.
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Chuck Miller, Board Member – Hamilton, MT
As a native of Montana and Bobcat graduate, Chuck and his family have been associated with the Forest Service, Glacier National Park and Wilderness for three generations. He has been an active user of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, and the Great Burn, almost always astride his long-eared and trusty mules. He has been riding and packing mules for 20+ years, all in Montana and Idaho. Chuck has been a member of the Back Country Horsemen since 1983, first in Idaho then Montana, and has held Local, State and National offices. He currently is on the State Board of Montana Back Country Horsemen for the Bitter Root Chapter, and after a 7-year term on the National Board of the Back Country Horsemen he is an alternate director for Montana. Chuck is also a retired hand surgeon and currently serves on the Forage Council in Helena for the Department of Agriculture.
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Jason Kauffman, Board Member – Boise, ID
Jason is a freelance outdoor and environmental writer and photographer whose areas of coverage include western wildlands and wildlife topics. He grew up riding and packing horses and mules with his dad and brothers on long autumn trips into the backcountry. This love of wild places has also led to a love of extended backpack trips, mountain biking, whitewater rafting, fly-fishing and backcountry skiing. Most recently, Jason was the environmental and public lands reporter for the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper in Ketchum, Idaho. He is also the co-founder of Alpenglow Press.
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Debbie Lee, Board Member – Moscow, ID
Debbie Lee is a professor in the English Department at Washington State University. Currently, she is writing a book about the cultural history of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness on a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The goal of the project is to illuminate the ways different groups of people were affected by and recorded their encounters with this rugged piece of land and how it, in turn, was affected by them. Lee, who backpacks regularly in the Selway-Bitterroot and surrounding wildlands, has historic roots to the area: her grandfather homesteaded at Three Forks in the 1920s and then served as ranger at the Moose Creek Station where he built the short airfield in the 1930s. Meanwhile, her grandmother lived in the ranger’s dwelling, raised children, cleared trails, monitored wildfires, cooked for backcountry crews, spent long summer days with the Renshaws and exchanged vegetables with Phil Shearer.
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Connie Saylor-Johnson, Board Member – Nezperce, ID
Connie is a 35-year veteran of public and conservation education. After teaching in Iowa to begin her career, she headed west to the Selway-Bitterroot, where she spent ten years as a wilderness ranger on the Lochsa District of the Clearwater National Forest, and ten years as a wilderness ranger on the Moose Creek District of the Nez Perce National Forest. Connie loves connecting volunteers with projects in the woods, and is hoping to promote and deliver common sense conservation education.
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Mark Tabor, Board Member – Cambridge, ID
Mark grew up in South Carolina, moving west in the late 1970′s. He is an avid whitewater rafter, and worked as a commercial river guide for Hughes River Expeditions for ten years in Idaho and Oregon. His first trip on the Selway River was in 1996. He was a small business owner. He likes to fly fish and hike with his dogs, and is a hospice volunteer. He currently spends summers in the Selway-Bitterroot care-taking Selway Lodge with his wife Margery.
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Jerry Randolph, Board Member – McCall, ID
I suppose what cemented my love for wilderness and wild places took place in the summer of 1958. An uncle, then a Conservation Officer for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, took me (as a very young man) on a two-week horse packing trip to the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, including camping at Dagger Falls to watch salmon negotiate the falls. Summers spent as a college student and beyond on the Sawtooth and Okanogan National Forests in fire and timber/range management provided a strong foundation and balance for me. For many years I have been a member of Trout Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited, and the Idaho Conservation League, and I served as a member of the Valley County Roadless Review Team representing conservation interests. More recently I have served on the Southwest Idaho Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) representing conservation interests. Now, following a 37-year career in public education, I work part-time for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in the Landowner Relations and Wildlife Depredation programs. My wife and I have lived in McCall since 1977.
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Sarah Walker, Advisory Board Member – Moscow, ID
Sarah retired from the Clearwater National Forest in 2002 and now lives Moscow, Idaho. She has worked as a botanist, editor and natural history writer. She served as a wilderness ranger in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness for 15 years for the Lochsa District in Kooskia, Idaho.
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Jim Renshaw, Advisory Board Member – Kooskia, ID
Few people have ties to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness that run as deep as Jim’s. Jim grew up inside of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness are the present-day Selway Lodge, and has not stopped traveling and taking care of the Selway country since. Whether as a land-owner, outfitter or volunteer, Jim’s dedication to the protection of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness is second-to-none. Jim has been involved with packing stock in the Selway since he was a child, and is recognized as one of the most skilled wilderness packers in the country.
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Beth Bonham, Advisory Board Member – Washburn, ND
Beth has been involved in the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation since its inception in 2005. She has worked as a naturalist, backcountry ranger, soil conservationist, and operated her own outdoor education business. She lived on the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge in Stevensville , Montana, with her family before moving on to North Dakota in the fall of 2009. Beth loves to hike, camp, hunt, whitewater raft, and share the outdoors with her family. She also looks forward to providing continual assistance and advisement to the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation from her new home on the plains.
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Jane Spencer, Advisory Board Member – Grangeville, ID
Jane was introduced to the Selway-Bitterroot when she worked for the Nez Perce National Forest following college. Her various job assignments for the forest included safety specialist, human resources, Federal Woman’s Program manager, writer-editor for the first forest plan and part-time data entry for the engineers. Following a hiatus to raise her two sons, she went to law school and then practiced law in Grangeville for 7 years. She currently works part-time as a researcher/paralegal for a Grangeville firm that defends product liability suits for a midwestern company. She also helps her husband Craig manage their remote ranch. Although she doesn’t get to spend as much time in the Selway-Bitterroot as she would like, she fervently supports all efforts to take care of the wilderness resource.