Tricia O’Connor
Tricia O’Connor
“I don’t give up,” says FBT Advisory Board member Tricia O’Connor. “If there is something that is possible and I know it is possible, we’re going to get it done.”…
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Carlie Ideker
Program Manager Carlie Ideker grew up on public lands in and around Dubois. “My family spent our weekends outside, usually in the Shoshone or Bridger-Teton National Forests, whether we were…
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Karla Bird
Karla Bird first moved to Wyoming in 1984, when she spent three years in Rock Springs working for the Bureau of Land Management. Then her job took her to California….
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Shane O’Brien
Shane O’Brien began his journey with Friends of the Bridger-Teton as a contract employee and quickly jumped at the opportunity to join the team full-time. “I was excited by the…
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Lisa Franzen, Co-Secretary
About 20 years ago, Lisa Franzen visited Jackson Hole for the first time; she was on a ski trip to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. “I had no idea back then…
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Kathy Gross
Kathy Gross was nine-years-old the first time she backpacked in the Wind River Mountains. She was with her parents, three siblings, and the family dog. She doesn’t remember the details…
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Marshall Durston
“The Bridger-Teton National Forest staff are so passionate about their jobs and the public land that they are charged with stewarding for a diversity of uses. They have so many…
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Elly McFarland
From Anacortes, Washington, Elly McFarland first came to trail work in 2020. That summer, following her freshman year of college, she did AmeriCorps. “I’ve been doing trail work every summer…
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Monica Elliott
“The outdoors have given me so much,” says Monica Elliott, the team leader of FBT’s 2025 Forest Corps. “It’s great to be able to give back to it as part…
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Chuck Butterfield
Board member Chuck Butterfield grew up hunting, fishing, and camping on the west side of the Bighorn National Forest, in north central Wyoming. After graduating from the University of Wyoming…
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