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WCC Board of Directors
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Gretchen Nicholoff and her husband Robin have been active in public lands issues in WCC and WSERC forever, it seems. Gretchen worked at High Country News in Paonia and is active in the Democratic Party in Delta County. |
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Randy Parker and his wife lived in New York's Adirondack Mountains for 30 years, where he operated a private law practice and served as Vice President of a non-profit which served special needs clients. Since retiring to Ridgway, he has been involved with Ridgway-Ouray Community Council's land use campaigns. | |
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Louise Boehme, moved to Montrose from the Northeast in 2004 to be closer to her son and the mountains. She is a landscape designer and facilitated the design process for an inner city garden/ outdoor classroom in Boston. While living in Florida, Louise was co-owner and operator of one of the larger farm and garden supply stores in the southeast |  |
Noalani Terry is a freelance indexer and holistic health practioner. Prior to moving to western Colorado in 1997, she spent 9 years as Library Manager for World Resources Institute in Washington, DC. She has also served on the boards of the Whole Life Network, UVA and the Environment & Resource Management Division of the Special Libraries Association. | ||
| Jack White (Community Alliance of the Yampa Valley) | |||||
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Rein Van West has been guilty of cultural and scholarly neglect in favor of more time outdoors. However, he did manage to find great rewards in 25 years as an educator and spent time as an administrator with the Colorado Outdoor Education Center, finding that connecting children with nature might be one of the more important nurturing and long-term benefits for our planet. |  |
Marv Ballantyne is recently retired from his career as owner of Black Canyon Appraisal in Montrose, and now can be found playing banjo with any number of bands in the area. Marv served as WCC President from 1986 to 1988 and was a spokesperson for WCC's Toxics Committee in the 1990s when it fought against a proposed low-level radioactive waste dump in the West End of Montrose County. | ||
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Mara Ferris captured video footage of our spectacular Citizens Wilderness Proposal while in graduate school, and instantly fell in love with the Grand Valley. She has done extensive work on public lands, energy and social issues as a professional videographer in Colorado, and is underwriting director for KAFM Community Radio in Grand Junction. |  |
Monica Wiitanen is a member of the North Fork Coal Working Group, Delta County's Upper North Fork Area Planning Committee, the Valley Organic Growers' Association, and is a vendor at the North Fork Farmers' Market. Monica also enjoys the fiber arts--spinning, weaving, knitting, tatting and sewing. | ||
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Curtis Imrie leads a corral-centered life at the base of Mt. Columbia in Buena Vista where he raises and races world-champion pack burros. He campaigns for economic populist causes, is an independent film-maker and has twice been the Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative (3rd and 5th districts). |  |
Peggy Rawlins moved to Battlement Mesa in Garfield County nine years ago and almost immediately became a spokesperson on issues surrounding gas drilling. The issues of gas drilling seem to have followed Peggy in her recent move to Grand Junction, where she helped pass a watershed protection ordinance in 2006. | ||
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