Jeff has been blessed to call the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem home for over 40 years. Twenty-five of those years has been in Jackson Hole. Early on his respect and curiosity for the natural world was enhanced by summers in Maine, a trip to Alaska at age 10, and many family and Scout camping and hiking trips throughout the Northern Rockies. High school and university years were spent at Yellowstone National Park, where Jeff’s parents had settled. Here he witnessed and studied firsthand the seasonal and subtle relationships between the climate, geology, and native flora and fauna.
Several major events have occurred during Jeff’s time in the Yellowstone Ecosystem – the 1988 landscape wildfires, the reintroduction of the wolf, the struggles of the grizzly bear to thrive again following closure of the dumps in the Park and the arrival of several invasive species of plants, mammals, and fish and the resulting pressures on native species.
Following graduation from Montana State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing and emphasis in Economics, Jeff spent 3 years in Alaska—first guiding fly fishermen at a remote fly out lodge in Lake Clark National Park on the Alaska Peninsula, and later as tourism development manager for Anchorage, where he helped develop tour programs that enhanced the visitor experience through sustainable and meaningful natural and cultural interpretive tourism connections.
Returning to Wyoming, Jeff next spent 8 years working with the global tourism community to develop meaningful experiential tours of the region. He introduced hundreds of journalists, photographers, and international tourism industry professionals to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem through familiarization tours hosted by the State of Wyoming Tourism Division.
Following his last move to Jackson, Jeff spent 8 years employed by the Cultural Resources division of the National Park Service and based in Grand Teton National Park at the Western Center for Historic Preservation.
Jeff has studied and witnessed firsthand the dynamic interplay between the natural and human shaped components of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. He is in a unique position to interpret and loves to share his understanding of the forces that have historically shaped this region be they natural geologic, fire based, plant and species ecologic interplay or historic and modern human influences.
Jeff is a PSIA certified Cross Country Ski instructor and a certified Wilderness First Responder.
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