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BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
MarieAnne Hasenkrug -
President - has a B.A. degree from the U. of Mt. and an M.A. degree in
English Lierature. from Columbia U. She is treasurer for Saphire
Education Corp., which is the sponsor of a local alternative school that her
children attended. She has operated a small business making and
selling hemp and organic cotton home goods. She is currently learning to
play the baroque flute.
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Alica
Mariana-Sec/Treas. - has been
involved in various aspects of business and office management for many
years. After selling a wood working business, Alice became mail
order manager for a local seed company, then store manager for the organic
garden store and nursery.
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David Bassler
– has a B.A. in philosophy, B.S. in geology, and M.S. in environmental
studies. He is an organic orchardist. He has built and lives in a very
beautiful and artistic earthship home, with an earthship greenhouse.
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Larry Campbell -
Vice-President -
*BS in geology, Princeton University, 1970
*Outward Bound Instructor '67 to '78
*travel to pre-industrial cultures, Mexico (Tarahumara), Baffin
(Innuit), Afghanistan (Nooristan), India, Nepal
*Building appropriate technology farmstead,
*Conservation activist, 1970 - 2004 founded Princeton Ecology Action
1970; Montana Wilderness Association Council, 1986-1988; founded Montana Waterwatch,'86 Exe. Director Voice of the Environment
'96-'98;
ED - Friends of the Bitterroot '98 - '02;
Big Wild board member, '96 - present;
Natural Trails and Waters Coalition
Regional Leader.
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| Carolyn Hester (alias Mast) received her
B.S. in Environmental Toxicology from UC Davis. She worked in
California in the environmental consulting field for 4 years and then moved
to Montana where she got a secondary teaching certificate for all sciences.
For the last 6 years she has been teaching either at Victor or Hamilton
Schools. She is now involved in assisting the schools in our valley to
form their wellness policy committees and to develop good wellness policies.
Currently she is apprenticing at Lifeline Produce Farm and, with her
husband, Kirk, plans to develop their own self-sufficient farm and
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Gretchen Langton - born and bred in the Victor
area, graduated from Stevensville H.S. in 1987, obtained a B.A. in Political
Science (pre-law) from Mt. State Univ., with a minor in English; obtained a
M.A. in English from Univ. of Oregon. Now living off the grid in
a yurt on her property in the Victor area and intends to build an Earthship
home there. She is writing for the Bitterroot Star, and is a
practicing massage therapist (Tipi Rock Therapy) and is also very busy being
a mother to a rambunctious 4 year old girl named Lilly. |
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Staff:
Jill Davies -
Director - got her bachelors degree in
mathematics, but after a taste of graduate school changed course and went into
more holistic studies. She studied Biodynamics in England in the
early '70's; worked in the gardens on a commune in the French Alps and on a
Biodynamic truck farm in Switzerland before returning to the US.
She went back to England in 1999 to attend a course at Schumacher College on
biotechnology in agriculture and has been active in that issue ever since.
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