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Staff
Photo by Harold Shepherd Tansplanted to Southeast Utah from eastern Oregon in 2006, Terry has been active in environmental issues for over 20 years. She and her husband are avid hikers, backpackers and dog-lovers. Terry has been visiting southeastern Utah for recreation and spiritual rejuvenation since 1990. She holds two Master's Degrees, one in Political Science from Colorado State University and one in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana.
Terry's career includes a long history studying and implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), environmental compliance issues, water/instream flow issues and land use policy. She worked for several years with both the Umatilla and Siletz Tribes in Oregon on a variety of treaty/tribal environmental/resource issues; she was also involved in forest planning with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation in the mid-1990s.
Photo by Susie Grant For seven years, sixth-generation Utahn Amy Irvine McHarg worked for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance; five of which she served as director of development.
Since then she has worked as a development and organizational consultant for grassroots conservation organizations, and launched her writing career with the publication of her second book Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008).
The book will be released Feb. 26, 2008. Talk to your local independent bookseller to pre-order. She currently lives at the easternmost edge of the Colorado Plateau with her husband, daughter and a small herd of goats.
A native Utahn, Katrina has joined Red Rock Forests after spending the winter in a tiny cabin in Denali National Park in Alaska.
Coming to the desert in summer balances out here winter experience!
Katrina has worked in a variety of field positions, including stream and river assessments.
She spent the summer of 2007 becoming intimately familiar with the Abajos, as she is conducting our route and dispersed campsite inventory.
Look for her again this summer cruising through the Abajos!
Photo by Terry Shepherd Harold has been working in water law, environmental law, Indian law and as an activist for over 20 years. He received an undergraduate degree in Range Management from Colorado State University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Oregon Law School. Currently licensed in Oregon and Washington, he is applying to the Utah State Bar for admission. He has worked for a variety of entities, including the Umatilla and Siletz Tribes of Oregon, the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho and the Colville Tribes of Washington. In addition, he has been Executive Director/Staff Attorney for the Center for Water Advocacy since 2003.
Cathy Kay, Recreation Planning Specialist With an educational background in Wildlife Management, Cathy brings not only biological knowledge to work with Red Rock Forests, but also a passion for advocacy and long-term sustainable practices in our public lands policy. Most recently, Cathy was involved in the issue of oil shale in Colorado, developing environmental and economic/social stipulations at the local level, and bringing an understanding of the technology, social and environmental impacts to communities around the state. Prior to her work on Western U.S. issues, she worked as Campaign Director for Save the Wild Coast Association, an NGO in South Africa.
Board of Directors Kalen Jones - President Kalen has spent years working for the environment and better government in southeastern Utah. Among his accomplishments are numerous wilderness inventory trips for the Utah Wilderness Coalition; participation in the Grand County Access Committee; years of formal comments letters opposing the Moab Easter Jeep Safari and other damaging excesses of off-road vehicles in Grand County; and heavy involvement with community planning in Moab City. He helped conceive and propose a citizens’ travel system for Grand County and has worked to keep our air and water unpolluted and our land untrammeled. He and his partner, an architect, live in Moab and design earth-friendly homes.
Paul Frank - Vice President Paul grew up in the Front Range of Colorado. He embarked on an educational tour of Colorado's universities and colleges throughout the seventies. After stints as a factory worker and a BLM botanist in the Mojave Desert he moved to central Utah. There he worked at a USFS research lab. This inspired him to start a native seed business and he moved to Moab in the mid eighties where he proceeded on a slow march to bankruptcy. Giving up the seed business he embraced the life of an itinerant contract biologist specializing in desert tortoises and has walked many thousands of miles across the Mojave and Sonoran deserts conducting tortoise research and surveys. He and his wife live in Moab and like to take long treks into the mountains and deserts of the West whenever possible.
Suzanne Jones, Secretary Suzanne has worked on Forest Service issues for years. For five years she has served as the assistant regional director for The Wilderness Society's Four Corners office in Denver, and she is now the Director. As part of her duties with The Wilderness Society, she recently worked on the Forest Plan revisions for the Black Hills of South Dakota and the White River National Forest in Colorado. Prior to that, Suzanne worked in Washington D.C. on Endangered Species legislation for the National Wildlife Federation. She spent a year working on the hill as a Congressional staffer for the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Suzanne has an M.S. in Resource Policy and Management and a B.S. in Natural Resources.
Kevin Walker, Treasurer A founding board member of Red Rock Forests, Kevin worked for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance for 4 years. He directed the inventory process that resulted in the current 9.5 million acre citizens' BLM Utah wilderness proposal. He also developed SUWA's email alert list. Kevin has been active with the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club, serving as state conservation chair and representative to the Utah Wilderness Coalition. Kevin has lived in Moab since 1990. He has a B.A. in Mathematics (Princeton University, 1985), and a Ph.D. in Math (UC Berkeley, 1989). He backpacks extensively in southern Utah, including a 40-day, 450-mile solo trek across the state, from Boulder Mountain to Moab. When not working on environmental issues, Kevin does research in topological quantum field theories for Microsoft in Santa Barbara. His friends speak in reverent tones of his dried fruit and vegetable rind collection, accumulated over many years and residing on his Honda Civic dashboard. Though the collection has yet to go on tour, some feel it is the finest the genre has ever witnessed.
Will Petty, At-Large Board Member After earning a B.A. in Computer Science from Brown University, Will lived in New York and Tokyo, finally moving to Moab in 1988. His company, Technica Pacifica, produces English language educational materials for Japanese businessmen and scientists, and is one of Moab’s largest employers. He also owns a couple of Southeast Utah’s funkier businesses, including the Jailhouse Cafe in Moab and Fry Canyon Lodge near Natural Bridges National Monument and White Canyon. At one point he holed up at the Happy Jack Mine, thinking he might live out his days hiking and playing his violin to the soaring cliffs of that remote expanse of canyon country. Somehow he got snared by the idea of building friendlier, healthier communities in Southeastern Utah and moved to Moab. He has long been an enthusiastic supporter of SUWA and other local environmental groups. He is married with two children, and spends as much free time as possible in a shepherd’s trailer at the base of Mount Linneaus in the Abajos.
Liz Thomas, At-Large Board Member For a decade, Liz has worked for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance as an attorney and field office manager. She has been instrumental in developing and implementing a strategy to repel assaults on America's Red Rock Wilderness. As SUWA’s designated forest issues staff person, she has a long and broad history of involvement in the three Forests of southern Utah and has helped RRF since its inception with fundraising, networking, and advice.
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