Ambassador

Julia Blanco & Matt Sweitzer

Meet Matt Sweitzer and Julia Blanco, Jackson District, Shadow Mountain “We were Shadow Mountain Ambassadors in 2023, and then we took a year off to get married, and we’re excited…

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Tom Owens

Meet Tom Owens, Blackrock District, Toppings and Spread Creek Ambassador Since retiring 10 years ago, Tom has done significant amounts of volunteer work on public lands. The day after we…

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Ron Rappaport

Meet Ron Rappaport, Jackson District, Lower Gros Ventre Ron has been an Ambassador enough years that he has lost count. “Summer 2025 will be the fifth or sixth year,” he…

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Mike Johnson

Meet Mike Johnson, Greys River District, Moose Flat Campground Second-year Ambassador Mike Johnson started coming up to the Greys River in 1988. “I camped up here with a friend that…

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Jack Robertson

Greys River District, Cottonwood Campground Jack Robertson volunteered for FBT and the BTNF for the first time in summer 2025, says he tries to devote three months of every year…

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Gayle & Bob Caston

Jackson Ranger District, Visitor Information/Front Desk Gayle and Bob Caston did their first stint as volunteer Ambassadors on the Bridger-Teton National Forest the summer of 2025. “We’re eagerly returning to…

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Dave Weldon

Wildlife Ambassador, Blackrock District “I love wilderness and wildlife,” says Dave Weldon, who grew up backpacking, fishing, dirt biking, and skiing in Mammoth Lakes, California, in the Sierra Mountains, and…

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Gene Palos

“I just really love doing this job,” says Gene Palos, who has been the Blackrock District Volunteer Wildlife Ambassador since August, 2021. “I was in law enforcement for 30+ years…

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Jules Butler & Chris MacMillan

Jules Butler and her husband Chris MacMillan are Campground Ambassadors at Curtis Canyon. Jules, a native of Connecticut, moved to Jackson Hole in 2014 (after 20 years of being an…

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Randy Roberts

BTNF Trail Ambassador Randy Roberts moved to Jackson in 1977 and taught elementary school for 30 years. He was a founding board member of Friends of Pathways, a nonprofit that…

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