Board nominates new members and approves effort to seek increased Land & Water
Conservation Funds
The WLT Board of Directors held its June 2004
meeting in Choteau, Montana, at the Seven Lazy P Guest Ranch.
The
ranch, which is nestled at the edge of the Bob Marshall Wilderness—designated
as part of the 1994 Wilderness Act—was a perfect setting
for the meeting.
Our Board was honored to have Eleanor Towns
return as an active member at the meeting. They also elected
Jim Blomquist as a new Board member. Eleanor is a retired
Forest Service executive and actively consults nationwide
on thorny public management issues from Denver. Jim consults
with nonprofits from his base in southern California, after
a distinguished career with the Sierra Club. We are humbled
by their voluntary contribution and dedication to our efforts.
As a new Board member, Jim joins Bill Pope
and Doug Scott, both formally elected at the June 2003 meeting.
Bill Pope comes to WLT from Microsoft where he was a general
counsel. He has been a long time wilderness advocate and
user, and he is a member of the Earthjustice board of directors.
He currently runs our Washington state office as a volunteer
on a part-time basis. Doug Scott is the Policy Director for
the Campaign for America’s Wilderness and a respected
wilderness advocate.
One important policy decision at the June
meeting, was the Board’s approval of an effort to actively
work with decision makers in Washington to increase Land & Water
Conservation Funds available for wilderness inholdings. These
funds have been steadily decreasing over recent years and
are critical for the work done by WLT.
