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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.
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. Now works at RCEDA.
	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 off the grid in a very beautiful and artistic earthship home, with an earthship greenhouse.

	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 an appropriate technology off the grid farmstead in the Darby area, *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.
Janis Cooper - grew up in Maine, and consider myself at the core, a 'maniac'. However, I fell in love with the mountains of Montana in 1968 and moved here lock, stock (specifically horses), and barrel in 1978. During those earlier years I worked, among many things, as a seasonal employee for the Forest Service. Starting w/bare land on the west side of the Bitterroots, my then partner and I built a shed, garage, barn and house (in that order). I kept horses, sheep (for handspinning wool), and chickens. In 1993, after graduating from the University of Montana with an MA in Sociology, I worked in various MT State human service positions for the next 15 years. I accepted a Grant Coordinator position in an Alaskan school system for the 2007-8 school season. Currently back in the Bitterroot Valley, I live and am employed in Hamilton. To mention a few of the activities that feed my soul, I enjoy gardening, cross-country skiing, kayaking, and hiking.
	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 is building an Earthship home there. She is a practicing massage therapist (Tipi Rock Therapy) and is also very busy being a mother to a rambunctious little girl named Lilly.
	Jill Davies - (STAFF) - 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.