Who We Are:

Officers:

President/Treasurer: Clint Nagel - graduated from Southern Oregon College in Ashland, Oregon in 1974 with B.S. Degree in Biology. He began his federal service with the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division in Buffalo, Wyoming in 1978. Early on, his service consisted of work overseeing a variety of surface-water monitoring programs. But as opportunities changed, a majority of that time also included water quality and sediment programs associated with the National Stream Quality Accounting Network as well with several statewide Ambient water-quality monitoring networks. Several years were also spent in the ground water discipline. The last several years of his career included more management aspects as he became supervisor over the Hydrologic Surveillance section in the Kansas City, Missouri Subdistrict Office and the Sacramento, California Field Office.

He officially retired in 2009 while in Sacramento, CA. He volunteered part of his time back to the agency for a 3-month period before he once again worked on a part-time basis for an additional year and a half. After that he drew his career to a close and his wife and he relocated to Bozeman, MT. Now they spend their time volunteering and being on boards for various groups and organizations within the Bozeman community. Currently he sits on the board of the Gallatin Wildlife Association, Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance, plus past President of the local chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. He is active within many environmental groups in the Bozeman area and writes letters on behalf of many causes.

Vice President: Vacant - 

Secretary: Nancy Shultz - Nancy lives in Bozeman, and enjoys many outdoor activities including hiking, cycling, cross country skiing and watching wildlife.

Other Board Members:

Nancy Ostlie. 

Glenn Monahan.

Science Advisory Board:

Bob Crabtree: Bob is an animal ecologist who has dedicated the last 32 years to understanding the living systems of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. He is currently the Chief Scientist and Cofounder of the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC). A field ecologist at heart, he was fascinated with bird communities and the process of predation since a teenager. He first worked on a great-horned owl study as a high school student and published his first paper as an undergraduate at the University of Idaho on competition between two species of flycatchers. After two positions working for state and game agencies, he studied skunk, weasel, and fox preadation on waterfowl nests at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Utah for his MS degree. He then worked for Battelle PNL and lead the first study of an unexploited coyote population at the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve in Washington for his PhD. 

After a post-doc at UC-Berkeley on animal movement modeling, he was awarded two grants (1) building a structured population model for Yellowstone wolves as part of the EIS process, and (2)initiated the 20-year Canid Ecology Project (CEP). In 1993, he founded the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC) based on: (1) long-term research and monitoring, (2) large-scale landscape ecology, and (3) collaborative partnerships. Learning from large-scale natural and policy experiments, he is developing an adaptive Ecological Forecasting program to drive adaptive decision-making to sustain healthy systems and viable fish and wildlife populations. He also started a career track as landscape ecologist to use remote sensing fusion and data assimilation modeling to understand the cause and consequence of populations responding to habitat and climate change over large landscapes. He continues to strive to translate the results of ecological research into informed decision-making and on-the-ground conservation action. Bob continues to mentor field interns, employees, graduate students and posts-docs at YERC's geospatial dynamics lab in Bozeman, Montana.

Lance Craighead:

George Wuerthner: George Wuerthner is an ecologist and writer who has published 38 books on various topics related to environmental and natural history. Among his titles are Welfare Ranching-The Subsidized Destruction of the American West, Wildfire-A Century of Failed Forest Policy, Energy—Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, Keeping the Wild-Against the Domestication of the Earth, and many others.

He has visited over 400 designated wilderness areas and over 200 national park units.  In the past, he has worked as a cadastral surveyor in Alaska, a river ranger on several wild and scenic rivers in Alaska, a backcountry ranger in the Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, a wilderness guide in Alaska, a natural history guide in Yellowstone National Park, a freelance writer and photographer, a high school science teacher, and more recently ecological projects director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He currently is the ED of Public Lands Media.

He has been on the board or science advisor of numerous environmental organizations, including RESTORE the North Woods, Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Association, Park Country Environmental Coalition, Wildlife Conservation Predator Defense, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Western Watersheds Project, Project Coyote, Rewilding Institute, The Wildlands Project, Patagonia Land Trust, The Ecological Citizen, Montana Wilderness Association, New National Parks Campaign, Montana Wild Bison Restoration Council, Friends of Douglas Fir National Monument, Sage Steppe Wild,  and others. 

Rick Wallen:

Visit Gallatin Wildlife Association's first ever YouTube Channel -

https://www.youtube.com/@GallatinWildlifeAssociation

While there visit Mike Phillips December 19th, 2023 Lecture at the Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman Montana.

You can also see that here. This is a 42 minute video, but well worth it - Enjoy!