Western Watersheds Project heartily welcomes Jerome Rovnak as the new caretaker at WWP's Greenfire Preserve on the East Fork of the Salmon River in central Idaho. Jerome moved into the apartment at the Preserve in October when  Stew Churchwell moved to Boise. Jerome is a long time resident of Blaine and Custer Counties in central Idaho. He was the first administrator of the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley.

He moved to the Greenfire Preserve from 12 miles upstream near Big Lake Creek in the East Fork watershed. Jerome is an artist in wood carving, a Vietnam Marine Corps veteran, and a lover of wildlife. Recently he has reported the second sighting of two wolves at the Greenfire Preserve along with 65 elk, over 250 mule deer, and 8 wild horses. Welcome Jerome!

WWP also welcomes Utah native Julian Hatch of Boulder, Utah as WWP's new southern Utah contract monitor and public lands coordinator.

Julian has joined with WWP thanks to a very generous grant from the Escalante Wilderness Project. Julian will be monitoring the Dixie National Forest, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and the Kanab Field Office of the BLM for compliance with federal law and regulations.

As a long-time resident of Garfield County, Utah with an encyclopedic knowledge of the public lands from the San Rafael Swell to the Kaibab Plateau, Julian will provide a strong local presence for the public interest in a critical part of Utah. Thanks and welcome Julian!