2008 Photo Contest Judges

Lowell Baier
Boone & Crockett Club, President
Lowell has served conservation for more than 40 years, and currently is the President of the Boone and Crockett Club. Read how he partnered with Sierra Club to save the Walden of the West, Teddy Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch in North Dakota.

Anthony Licata
Field & Stream, Editor
Originally from Pennsylvania, Anthony Licata is the Editor of Field & Stream, the world's leading outdoor magazine. Licata joined Field & Stream in 1998 as an Associate Editor and quickly moved through the ranks to Senior Editor in 2000, and was promoted to Deputy Editor in 2006. Licata, who is the fifteenth Editor in the history of the magazine, received recognition from the American Society of Magazine Editor's in 2007 when Sportsman's Notebook, which he edited, was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Magazine Section.

Ben Long
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Board
Montana outdoorsman and conservationist Ben Long serves on the national board of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. As an outdoor writer, he is a frequent contributor to Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's Bugle magazine, and is author of Great Montana Bear Stories. He grew up in northern Idaho and lives in northwestern Montana with his wife and son.

Samantha Mace
Save our Wild Salmon, Project Director
Sam Mace has worked on behalf of forests, fish and rivers for 15 years. Originally from Coos Bay, Oregon, she first moved to eastern Washington in 1994 and joined efforts to restore the Snake River in 1998 as the Salmon and Steelhead Project Coordinator for Washington and IdahoWildlife Federations, based in Spokane. In 2000 Sam moved back to Oregon where she worked for Trout Unlimited. Homesick for snow, desert, the Palouse and the Snake River, Sam returned to eastern Washington in 2004 as Save Our Wild Salmon's Inland Northwest Project Director.

Bob Poole
National Geographic Magazine, Writer
Bob Poole served as National Geographic Magazine Executive Editor for 21 years, and currently contributes as an author to both National Geographic and Smithsonian Magazines. He is also the author of Explorers' House, a book about the history of the family behind National Geographic. Read our interview with him.

Carl Pope
Sierra Club, Executive Director
Carl Pope was appointed Executive Director of the Sierra Club in 1992. A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Mr. Pope has been with the Sierra Club for nearly thirty years. In that time he has served as Associate Conservation Director, Political Director and Conservation Director. His grandfather is the late Ben East, longtime writer for Outdoor Life Magazine.

Jim Posewitz
Orion The Hunter's Institute, President
Jim spent 32 years with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, leading the agency's ecological program for 15 years. In 1993 Jim founded Orion The Hunter's Institute, a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to the preservation of ethical hunting and wild resources essential to that purpose. In association with that work Jim has published three books: Beyond Fair Chase; Inherit The Hunt; and his latest, Rifle in Hand.

Kent Salazar
New Mexico Wildlife Federation, President
Kent is a lifelong resident of New Mexico and an avid hunter and outdoors person. He currently lives in Albuquerque, but still has farms in Lucero and Peralta, New Mexico. Kent has a B.S. in Biology from the University of New Mexico, and is retired from the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department where he served as a division manager for twenty years. He also worked for Wilson Engineering as an environmental planner and served as coordinator for the Land of Enchantment Clean Cities program, a nonprofit alternative fuels coalition. He currently operates an environmental consulting business.

Pete Van Gytenbeek
Federation of Fly Fishers, President
He's the only person to have served both as Executive Director of Trout Unlimited and as President of the Federation of Fly Fishers.

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