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Jim Bowne, Board Treasurer
Licensed Tax Consultant, Ashland, OR

Jim is a lifelong naturalist, longtime environmental and human right activist, designer of Zen gardens and a former Buddhist monastic monk. He currently works as a tax consultant and accountant in Ashland and helps KS Wild on financial matters. Jim has lived in southern Oregon for 15 years and brings a wealth of experience to KS Wild.

Shannon Clery
Botanist, Ashland, OR

Shannon is a botanist, naturalist and educator who has lived in the Klamath-Siskiyous for seven years and served on the KS Wild Board of Directors for four years. Her graduate work at Southern Oregon University involved a botanical inventory and conservation project in the threatened Condrey Mountain Roadless Area on the Siskiyou Crest, which contributed to advocacy work being done by KS Wild.

Liz Crosson
Law student, Portland, OR
Liz is the former Outreach Coordinator for KS Wild and an experienced wilderness educator.  Liz holds a graduate degree in Environmental Education from SOU and has been working with various organizations doing outreach and education.  Her undergraduate degree is in Environmental Studies from UC Berkeley. She is currently attending law school at the Lewis and Clark Northwestern School of Law.

Shelley Elkovich, Board President
Community organizer, homeschooling mom, Ashland, OR
Shelley, her partner Jeff Heglie, and their children Aubyn and Rowan, have made Ashland their home since 2000. The Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains are the family's unschooling "classroom" and they enjoy birding and backpacking in the bioregion. Shelley is an organic gardener, writer and avid crafter. Before moving to Ashland, they lived rurally and Shelley ran a home-based business. She is an active community member who enjoys including her kids in creative, grass-roots organizing that models justice, compassion, and a love of wild places. Locally, she has been instrumental in forest protection campaigns, in starting a new community garden, the effort to stop the Mt. Ashland Ski Expansion, and an ACLU legal case defending free speech.

Joseph Flaherty
Elementary school teacher, O'Brien, OR
An avid snowboarder, Joseph Flaherty got involved in the work of KS Wild in 2000 in support of the campaign to protect the Mount Ashland watershed.  He also spent part of a summer sitting in an old Douglas Fir hoping to stop the Peak Timber Sale in the upper Rogue basin. Joseph worked for KS Wild for a while as a door-to-door canvasser raising awareness of local forest issues.  While a college student at Southern Oregon University, he edited and published the campus paper the Soapbox.  Recently, he moved to the Illinois Valley where he works as a primary school teacher.  He continues to ride his snowboard, but now he has to hike for his turns in the wild western Siskiyou.

Scott Harding
Photographer, river guide, Somes Bar, CA
A 10 year resident of the Klamath-Siskiyou, Scott moved to the region as a geologist with the Siskiyou National Forest. He currently resides on the North Fork Salmon River, on the southern edge of California’s Marble Mountains. Scott works as a freelance photographer and as a whitewater kayaking instructor on the Salmon River. Scott has been involved in various environmental and community projects as a photographer, web developer, brush-cutter, writer and activist.

Tracy Harding
Small business owner, community activist, Ashland, OR
Tracy has lived in Ashland since 2001. She is a skilled community organizer and active civic participant. She currently serves on Ashland’s Conservation Commission. She is involved in numerous local campaigns, including a woman’s right to choose, opposing nuclear proliferation, and fighting the proposed Mt. Ashland ski expansion. Tracy is a thoughtful artisan and loving mother of two. As a successful small business owner, Tracy recently began Reclamation Goods to sell handmade natural fiber products that encourage responsible consumption and suggest that small changes in everyday behavior can have positive consequences for generations to come.

Stuart O’Neill, Board Secretary
Organic dairy farmer/cheese-maker, community organizer, Jacksonville, OR
Stuart has lived in the Klamath-Siskiyou for 13 years. His studies in geology at Southern Oregon University, along with a brief stint doing riparian surveys for the Medford BLM, introduced him to the wildlands of this region.  He has worked as a community organizer on numerous environmental and social justice campaigns in the KS region and beyond.  Stuart lives and works on a farmstead goat dairy and produces artisan cheeses in the foothills of the Siskiyou Crest.

Gene Rhough
Attorney, Brooklyn, NY
Gene is a corporate and intellectual property lawyer who has advised a range of well-known technology and media companies, such as Napster and Time Warner, as well as a number of non-profits, including the Rainforest Action Network, the San Francisco Design Museum and Precita Eyes Mural Arts Association. He has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from M.I.T. and a law degree from Harvard Law School.