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Robyn King, Executive Director: Robyn is a twenty-year resident of the Yaak Valley and one of the founders of YVFC. As director, Robyn manages day-to-day operations and oversees all YVFC programs, including Forest Watch, and serves as lead coordinator for the Headwaters Restoration Partnership Project. Her background in business administration and her commitment to community development and dialogue have proven invaluable to YVFC. She assists her partner with an alternative energy business and offers consulting in business administration in the Yaak.

Randy Beacham, Community Forest Watch Coordinator: Randy has been a Yaak Valley landowner and YVFC supporter since 1998 and has lived in the valley full time since 2002. Workng closely with the YVFC board in 1999 he is responsible for creating the Yaak Forest Watch Program and served as its first project coordinator.  He left the position in 2003 to pursue his professional photography career, specializing in environmental issues covering wildlands of the Inland Northwest like the Yaak Valley. Randy recently returned to the Forest Watch Project in 2008.

Peter Leusch, Community Watershed Restoration Coordinator: Pete moved to the Stateline/Old Highway 2 area of Lincoln County from eastern Idaho in 2003 and has been working with the Headwaters Restoration field crew for the last four years. He has been working to protect USFS Roadless Areas since 1993.  Pete is an avid hunter, fisherman, skier and gardener who is a co-founder of two successful organic farms in Idaho.

Lisa Mountain, OfficeManager:  Lisa has been in the Yaak Valley since 1994 and was drawn here by her love of the wilderness.  She has raised her family with that same wilderness value.  As one of the original members of the YVFC, Lisa became involved in order to protect the unique bio-diversity of the valley.  Her expertise in office management and finance makes Lisa a wonderful addition to our staff.

Scott Daily, Program Development: Scott moved to Northwest Montana’s Yaak Valley in 1997 and was YVFC's first director and a board member, and the first project coordinator for the Yaak Headwaters Restoration Project. Currently Scott works on program development, fundraising and is the volunteer music coordinator for the annual Wilderness Festival. He and his family moved to Sandpoint, ID, where he is a permaculture design consultant and nursery owner. He is a founding member of Sandpoint Community Radio and volunteers his time when he can helping coordinate community sustainability projects and organizations in north Idaho.


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