WWP Affiliation:
President, Board of Directors

Residence:
Boise, Idaho

Family:
Husband, Dale Grooms; dog, Kaz; mom, dad and grandmother in Virginia; brother, sister-in-law, new niece in Portland; assorted aunts, uncles and cousins all over.

Occupation (day job):
Corporate Attorney specializing in employment law.

Occupation (real job):
Fun-hog (backpacking, mountain biking, backcountry skiing, windsurfing).

Other Conservation Affiliations:
Wilderness Volunteers, Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, Natural Resources Defense Council, Buffalo Field Campaign.

Memorable Conservation Experience:
Fence removal project in Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge in Oregon in 1998, cow-free since 1993. Lush bunchgrasses, colorful wildflowers and plentiful ground nesting birds showed the beauty of public lands without abusive livestock grazing.

Spectacular Wildlife Encounters:
Yearling elk 5 feet away at Bull Trout Hot Springs in Idaho; mountain goat 20 feet away in Seven Devils Mountains in Idaho; giant manta ray and dolphins close-up while diving on the Great Barrier Reef.

Other Interests:
See above under "Occupation, Real job." Also fitness, digital photography, gardening, reading nonfiction.

Favorite Place(s) in the West:
Seven Devils Mountains, Idaho; Pioneer Mountains, Idaho; Boulder-White Clouds Mountains, Idaho; Dirty Devil and Escalante regions of southern Utah.

Conservation Hero(es):
Classic: John Muir, Ed Abbey. Contemporary: Public land activists like WWP's Jon Marvel, Katie Fite and John Carter, all dedicated to saving wild places and wildlife.

Book Recently Read:
"A River Lost" by Blaine Harden.

Quotes to Live By:
"In wildness is the preservation of the world" - Thoreau. "In the mountains, there you feel free." -T S. Eliot

Three Wishes for the Planet:
That people would turn off their TVs and go for a walk; that humans would respect and treat animals as living beings with feelings; that humans would develop sustainable economic systems that don't involve destruction and exploitation of people, animals and the earth.