Founder and ringleader of NWP, John's passion for the outdoors has brought him to exotic locales around the globe. His educational career entailed lives in two classically different American cities, Washington DC and Las Vegas, which gave him essential skills for navigating the always exciting world of public lands advocacy.  He is often seen accompanying Isabelle, the greatest desert dog known to all humankind. John and his old Nissan pickup have covered more miles together in Nevada than any other truck-man duo we can think of.

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A small town upbringing has not stopped Kristie from living in several states on both coasts and walking across the Bosporus in Turkey. Her academic background is in geography/geology, which explains her wanderlust, and her passion for maps and collecting rocks for landscaping projects at home. She is fond of refrigerator magnets and presumably the forces of magnetism, and dreams of sailing throughout the Caribbean. When not working you'll find her with her daughter Ginnie on the trail or in the garden.

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Having lived in Reno since 1997, John earned a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology from the University of Nevada. Prior to that, he lived in Tucson, AZ while getting an M.A. in Wildlife Ecology. John has a deep fondness for desert environments and loves calling the exquisite landscapes of the basin and range his home. He brings a wide variety of skills to the Conservation Director position, but we love him most for his exceptional home brewing talents.

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Mackenzie was born and raised in Yerington, Nevada and has lived around the globe, with time abroad in Europe and Asia. Her formal education was at the University of Oregon where she focused her energy on art and management. Her resume includes work with the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Mackenzie has walked the Thames in England and knows a lot about Lincoln Towncars. She loves travel, yoga, art and honky-tonk (which is not a town in Malaysia or Nevada).

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Nancy moved to the small town of Mesquite over 13 years ago and has watched this sleepy town with views of the Virgin River and the Virgin Mountains turn into a bustling, small city on the edge of some great unprotected wilderness. Nancy and her dog Stormy love to explore the nooks and crannies of places like Gold Butte, the Mormon Mountains Wilderness and the unprotected Mud Hills (part of our Billy Goat Peak proposed wilderness). Nancy is always smiling and can be found in the garden or with her grandkids, and she has been bold enough to join us on two of our Washington DC lobby tours.

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Denise comes to the NWP family from the yoga mat. She has been teaching yoga students for 10 years to stretch their bodies and minds. She also brings more than 23 years of bookkeeping experience to NWP. She has been a Nevadan since 1988, and along with her husband and kids, enjoys the camping and hiking opportunities that Nevada wilderness offers. She rounds out the holistic side of our staff with her fun sense of adventure, gardening and cooking skills--as well as urdvadanurasana (upward facing bow pose).

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Charlotte hails from Columbia, Missouri, where she grew up riding bikes, scratching chigger bites and hiking in Missouri River mud. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in S. Hadley, MA and the University of Missouri-Columbia. She most recently comes to us from Patagonia’s marketing department in Ventura, CA. Before that, she worked as a freelance writer, editor and project manager for various publications and non-profits. She was co-founder of Missouri River Relief, an organization dedicated to picking up garbage from the lower Missouri. She loves music and is the double bass player for Strange on the Range, a four-piece bluegrass band based in Reno.

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Gregg is a native Nevadan, originally from Yerington. He graduated from the University of Nevada-Reno in 1974 with a degree in wildlife management and had a 32-year career with the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), working as a biologist on terrestrial game and nongame wildlife, public land issues and agency administration. During his tenure with NDOW, he was assigned duty stations in Las Vegas, Yerington, Fallon and Reno. He retired in 2004 after a nine-year stint as Game Bureau Chief and, since then, has been a professional hunting dog trainer. Married to Joanne for 34 years, the Tanners have two grown children, Erin and Nathan. They have a lived in Fallon since 1981. Gregg enjoys training his own dogs and hiking Nevada's outback following one of his three German shorthair pointers in pursuit of Nevada's array of upland game birds. Gregg joined NWP in May, 2009.

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