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John Davis works with the Adirondack
Council and is affiliated with the Eddy Foundation. He is a co-founder
of Wild Earth journal and of the Wildlands Project.
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Michael DiNunzio is an ecologist and educator with
35 years of experience in natural area conservation and private land
stewardship. He is passionate and articulate about the need to integrate
sustainable agriculture with wildland protection on a regional scale.
Mike is the author of Adirondack Wildguide, and serves as Director
of Special Projects with Protect the Adirondacks.
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Randall Gray is a wildlife biologist. He retired
from USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service as their National
Wildlife Biologist in Washington, DC. He now works part time as the
Farm Bill Coordinator for the Intermountain West Joint Venture and
serves on the board of the North American Grouse Partnership, co-chair
of the Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, and is
an advisor to the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. He brings an expertise
in the use of Farm Bill programs for the conservation of fish and
wildlife habitat.
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Dave Henson is co-founder and
director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC), which conducts
research, education, and community organizing around a host of ecologically
based issues.
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Dan Imhoff is director of Watershed
Media, a non-profit 501(c)(3) communications agency. He is the author
of Farming with the Wild, a book identifying models and resources
to help farmers incorporate conservation practices in their farms
and watersheds. He has also written a number of articles on the wild
farm concept.
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Dana Jackson is a Senior Program Associate at Land
Stewardship Project, a 28-year-old organization that fosters an ethic
of stewardship for America’s farmlands while promoting sustainable
agriculture and sustainable communities. She works in the Community
Based Food Systems and Economic Development Program as coordinator
of the St. Croix River
Valley Buy Fresh Buy Local Chapter. She is co-editor with Laura Jackson
of The Farm as Natural Habitat.
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Dan Kent directs Salmon-Safe,
an organization devoted to restoring water quality and salmon habitat
in agricultural and urban landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.
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Paula MacKay is a wildlife researcher and a writer,
with a passion for wild places and wide-ranging carnivores. She is
currently a research associate with the Road Ecology Program of the
Western Transportation Institute (Montana State University), and is
based in central Washington. Paula was managing editor for a book
entitled "Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores" (Island
Press, 2008).
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Jamie Phillips is director of
the Eddy Foundation, which focuses on wildlands preservation, organic
agriculture, and biodiversity issues, and works with Black Kettle
Farm, an evolving pilot wild farm.
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Vance Russell is California Director of the National
Forest Foundation which engages Americans in community-based and national
programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million-acre
National Forest System, and administers private gifts of funds and
land for the benefit of the National Forests. He has focused on the
nexus between agriculture and conservation in California and Latin
America for the past two decades.
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Becky Weed is co-owner of Thirteen Mile Farm in southwest
Montana. Thirteen Mile runs a small wool mill and is currently revising
its long-term sheep operation, collaborating with a young farmer to
add vegetables to its lamb and wool marketing. Weed has worked on
her own place and with others to raise livestock while coexisting
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