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Year<\/strong><\/td>\nPresident<\/strong><\/td>\nEmployer at Time of Appointment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1967<\/td>\nGeorge Holton<\/td>\nMontana Fish and Game Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968<\/td>\nRichard Graham<\/td>\nMontana State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969<\/td>\nC.J.D Brown<\/td>\nMontana State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970<\/td>\nBob Piper<\/td>\nU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1971<\/td>\nNorm Schoenthal<\/td>\nEastern Montana College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\nRalph Boland<\/td>\nMontana Fish and Game Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1973<\/td>\nHenry McKirdy<\/td>\nU.S. Forest Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1974<\/td>\nDon Tennant<\/td>\nU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1975<\/td>\nRon Marcoux<\/td>\nMontana Fish and Game Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>\nGordon Haugen<\/td>\nU.S. Forest Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\nDennis Workman<\/td>\nMontana Fish and Game Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1978<\/td>\nNorm Peterson<\/td>\nMontana Fish and Game Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979<\/td>\nGary Gebhart<\/td>\nU.S. Bureau of Land Management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/td>\nPat Marcuson<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nAl Elser<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/td>\nGreg Munther<\/td>\nU.S. Forest Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/td>\nPat Graham<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\nJanet Decker-Hess2<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\nPat Dwyer<\/td>\nU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/td>\nJerry Wells<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/td>\nBob Gresswell<\/td>\nU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>\nGlenn Phillips<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nJohn Fraley<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\nChris Hunter<\/td>\nOEA Consulting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nJim Peterson<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nGinger Thomas3<\/td>\nGinger Thomas Consulting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nChris Clancy<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nJim Darling<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nBrad Shepard<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nDan Carty<\/td>\nU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nMark Lere<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nTom McMahon<\/td>\nMontana State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nBuddy Drake<\/td>\nDrake & Associates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nMike Enk<\/td>\nU.S. Forest Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nPat Clancey<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nPat Byorth<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nSteve Leathe<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nClint Muhlfeld<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nKate Walker<\/td>\nU.S. Forest Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nLeanne Roulson<\/td>\nGarcia and Associates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nDavid Schmetterling<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nCarter Kruse<\/td>\nTurner Enterprises Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nScott Barndt<\/td>\nU.S. Forest Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nTodd Koel<\/td>\nNational Park Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nCraig Barfoot<\/td>\nConfederated Salish Kootenai Tribes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nTravis Horton<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nRobert Al-Chokhachy<\/td>\nU.S. Geological Survey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nPat Saffel<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nDavid Moser<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nLeslie Nyce<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nAmber Steed<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nBrian Ertel<\/td>\nNational Park Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nSteve Dalby<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nJim Dunnigan<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nLisa Eby<\/td>\nUniversity of Montana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\nDavid Stagliano<\/td>\nMontana Biological Survey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>\nLeo Rosenthal<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>\nPeter Brown<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks \/ Clearwater Restoration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>\nMichelle McGree<\/td>\nMontana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year President Employer at Time of Appointment 1967 George Holton Montana Fish and Game Department 1968 Richard Graham Montana State University 1969 C.J.D Brown Montana State University 1970 Bob Piper U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1971 Norm Schoenthal Eastern Montana College 1972 Ralph Boland Montana Fish and Game Department 1973 Henry McKirdy U.S. Forest Service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-800","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd","first-child","last-child"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28367,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800\/revisions\/28367"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/montana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}