Green River Valley

Advisory Council

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  Mike Fenn

  Second Vice Chair

  Mike Fenn

  Mike was born and raised in Big Piney. He attended college at the University of Wyoming. He owns two ranches outside of Pinedale; one of which was recently conserved through The Nature Conservancy with help from the Green River Valley Land Trust. Mike previously served on the GRVLT board and was the Lands Committee Chair. Mike has over 30 years of experience in construction management in the energy industry.

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  Deborah Dawson

  Deborah Dawson

  Deborah has been retired since 1997 after a successful career in the money management business. She has served on the boards of the Montana Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the American Museum of Fly Fishing. She attended Vassar College and received an MBA from Boston University.

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  Jon Dawson

  Jon Dawson

  Jon Dawson is the Managing Member of Southport Management LLC, located in Wilson, Wyoming. In 1981, He founded a registered investment advisory in Southport, CT and was its CEO until December of 2011. Jon serves on the executive investment and nominating committees of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. He also currently serves on the board of the Special Operations Fund which provides educational scholarships to widows and children of special operations soldiers killed in action. Jon is a co-founder of New Beginnings Family Academy, a K-8 charter school in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is an honorary trustee of Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Connecticut and the Quebec Labrador Foundation. He has also served on the boards of the New Hampshire Audubon, The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and The Montana Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Mr. Dawson holds a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Fordham University. He was a member of the Connecticut Bar Association from 1975-2011.

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  Kerry Gold

  Green River Valley Program Director

  Kerry Gold

  Kerry was born and raised in Upstate New York and obtained a B.S. in wildlife biology from Colorado State University. Her expertise is in wildlife habitat management and conservation in the Rocky Mountain region. She spent several years in Pinedale, Wyoming with Wyoming Game and Fish as a habitat biologist focusing on protecting and enhancing natural landscapes for people and wildlife alike. Outside of her conservation work, Kerry spends her time enjoying the public lands in her backyard while sport climbing, backpacking, skiing, snowboarding, and bird hunting with her German wirehaired pointer.

  Email: kerry [at] jhlandtrust.org

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  Brian Gray

  Brian Gray

  Brian is a Pinedale resident. He is the Pinedale operation manager and senior project manager for Jorgensen Engineering.

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  Faith Hamlin

  Faith Hamlin

  Since moving to Wyoming at the age of 10, Faith Hamlin has always known this is where her heart lives. She graduated from Colgate University in 2018 with a degree in political science and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. At Colgate, she participated in and led programming for the Outdoor Education program. After university, she moved home to Bondurant, WY to help on her family’s cattle ranch, the Little Jennie. Helping out at the ranch eventually grew into running the operation. More recently, she has started running Bondurant Basin Outfitters alongside the Little Jennie Ranch. Faith has previously served on the Jackson Hole Community Foundation’s Health and Human Service board and currently sits on the Sublette County Fair Sale board and the board of the Wyldlife Fund.

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  Hadley Manning

  Hadley Manning

  Bio coming soon!

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  Sonja Rife

  Sonja Rife

  Sonja Rife and her husband, Jason, own and operate Killpecker Creek Cattle Company in the foothills of the Wyoming Range, where the sagebrush plains meet the soaring mountains and pine trees reach toward the open skies. Lush grasses blanket the meadows while Cottonwood Creek and Killpecker Creek provide ample feed and water for a growing herd of Galloway cattle. Sonja grew up in the D.C. area and earned her Bachelor of Science in biology. She and her husband’s decision to leave the east coast and raise their family in the fresh air and wide-open spaces, combined with a passion for interesting, scientific-based work led to purchasing 1,100 acres in Daniel, Wyoming in 2013 and ranching from a scientific background. With their love of good food and home cooking, Sonja and Jason raise grass-finished, no-antibiotic, no-hormone beef that they are proud to serve at their table and offer to their community.

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  Jim Roscoe

  Jim Roscoe

  Jim is now retired after running Roscoe Co. construction company for 35 years. He also served eight years in the Wyoming Legislature and served on Wyoming’s Select Natural Resource Funding Committee helping to direct funding for large conservation projects in Wyoming. He is the owner of the Muddy Creek Ranch in the Big Sandy area and also owns property in Wilson.

  He is now looking forward to spending more time at the ranch in Sublette Co. Hope to work with Wildlife Trust on easements in the mule deer migration corridor and Red Desert areas, along with working with the JHLT.