About Listening

Bill is employed with a small federal agency; the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service.  The NRCS works with private landowners, primarily farmers and ranchers to help them conserve and improve natural resources on their lands.  He graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelors Degree in Wildlife Management in 1983.  He has worked with the US Forest Service in Colorado and Washington State, The Colorado Division of Wildlife, the National Marine Fisheries Service in Alaska, worked as a habitat biologist with the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington, the Nature Conservancy in California, and has spent the last four years working for the NRCS in California and now in Salida.  Bill is a native of Pueblo Colorado and is focused on helping local farmers and ranchers sustain their agricultural livelihoods that protect the productive working lands in Chaffee County.

Bill is working closely with others on the Chaffee County Ranchlands Project and the Central Colorado Foodshed Alliance.  The Foodshed Alliance, a newly formed agricultural cooperative is promoting the Community Supported Agriculture model to reestablish and promote a vibrant local food economy.  Bill is also on the Board of Directors for the newly formed Guidestone Nonprofit that is dedicated to maintaining agriculture in the headwaters of the Upper Arkansas River Valley.