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Shaun Sims
President
122 Brook Hollow Drive
Evanston, WY 82930
307-789-4859
simsshaun@yahoo.com

Sims has been a supervisor on the Uinta County Conservation District board of supervisors since being elected in 2001 and is currently the Chairman. He represents the District on the Coalition of Local Governments which is involved in federal land planning processes including the Kemmerer RMP revisions and the Moxa Arch Infill Area Gas Development project. He is also heavily involved in many district activities and supports public education through participation in outdoor workshops and guided tours of his ranching and wind turbine facility. He is a native of Uinta County and is the fifth generation to operate the family sheep and cattle operation. He and his wife, Lacee, live in Evanston.
 

Jack Berger
Vice President

PO Box 245
Saratoga, WY 82331
307-326-5492
bergerdiana@yahoo.com

Jack is a District supervisor for the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District. He was appointed in 2004. He is active in the Carbon County Stock Growers and the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and is a member of the South Central Sage Grouse working group. Berger and his family reside in the Saratoga area and run a cow/calf operation.
 
Photo Coming Soon Cindy Gruwell
Area I Director

163 Morrissey Road
Newcastle, WY 82701
307-216-0313
cgruwell@rtconnect.net

Cindy is currently the Chairman of the Weston County Natural Resource District.  She was elected in 2009.  Cindy also served on the Niobrara Conservation District board from 2002--2007. 
 
Wayne Garman
Area I Director

396 A Garman Road
Sundance, WY 82729
307-283-2076
wgarman@rangeweb.net

Wayne is currently the Chairman of the Crook County Natural Resource District.  He was elected to the District in 2000 and has served as an Area I Director since April 2008.  Wayne, and brother Ross, are partners in a commercial cow/calf operation near Sundance.  In addition to the family ranching operations, Wayne manages a neighboring ranch for an absentee landowner.  Wayne likes to hunt and fish, has announced for local rodeos, is a 4-H leader and on the county 4-H horse advisory committee.  He has also been a licensed hunting guide and works as a ringman for a local auction company.  He and wife, Dixie, have an 11 year old daughter, Peggy Sue.
 
Curtis Grandstaff
Area II Director

PO Box 155
LaGrange, WY 82221
(307) 834-2459
granny@prairieweb.net

Curtis is the Chairman of the South Goshen Conservation District.  He was elected in December, 2003, to the WACD Board of Directors and serves on the Education Committee.  Curtis and his wife Cheryl own Grandstaff Angus and Trailer Sales in Lagrange, raising registered Black Angus on scenic Bear Creek.  Curtis is a member of the Wyoming Angus Association.  Along with his mother and brother, Curtis owns and manages LaGrange Grain Company.  He served for 25 years as Mayor of LaGrange and 31 years in the Army National Guard, retiring at the rank of Colonel.   Over the years, he was a high school teacher and coach, piloted his own single-engine plane, retired from the local fire department, and is a member of his church and the American Legion.  Curtis especially enjoys tending his cattle, socializing with friends, and being outdoors in the unspoiled beauty of Wyoming.   He and his wife have two married daughters and two grandchildren.

 
Hardy von Forell
Area II Director

326 E. Fairview
Wheatland, WY 82201
322-2676


Hardy is a fourth generation rancher and native of Platte County. He has three children, Kristine, Ben and Amanda. They live and ranch east of Wheatland.

Hardy currently serves on the Platte County Resource District board, is an active member of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, R-Calf USA and the Chug Creek Chapter of Pheasants Forever. He has also been active in assisting the District with the water quality monitoring program.
 
Mack Frost
Area III Director

PO Box 1657
Cody, WY 82414
307-578-5000
mfrost2@bresnan.net

            Mack was born and raised in Cody, a fourth generation native of Northwest Wyoming.  Mack’s professional career has been mostly in radio broadcasting, and mostly at the Cody station KODI.  Beginning in 1990, he owned and operated a 1-hour photo processing lab and portrait studio in downtown Cody.  He also had several stints in movie exhibition, starting in college, and later including the Cody Theatre, located north of the Irma Hotel in downtown Cody.  He currently works for the McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, digitizing the many photographic collections and the materials of the William Frederick Cody collection, preparing them for presentation on-line.
            In the mid ‘80s Mack was asked to accept appointment to the Board of Supervisors of the Cody Conservation District to fill out the term of a resigning member.  Within three years, Mack found himself the senior member of the Board, as the other four Supervisors either retired or were defeated at the polls and replaced by new talent.  He was elected Chairman in 1989, a position he has willingly held ever since.  In 2005, he became an alternate member of the WACD Board for Area III and a full member in 2006.

 
Pete Jachowski
Area III Director

217 Road 6EH
Cody, WY 82414
(307) 587-2723
pkjachowski@hughes.net

Pete is first and foremost a cattle rancher. He lives southwest of Cody, where he has raised registered cattle in association with Siggins Polled Herefords since 1974.
is a member of the Cody Area Chamber of Commerce, South Fork Weed Management Area, and serves on the Board of Managers for the Bridger Plant Materials Center.  He was elected to the Cody Conservation District board in 1992 and the WACD/WNRF Board of Directors in 1999.  Pete is also the President of the Wyoming Natural Resource Foundation.
 
 

Bryon Wilczewski
Area IV Director

18 Prairie Breeze Drive
Riverton, WY 82501
bwilcz@wyoming.com

Bryon has been a supervisor on the Lower Wind River Conversation District since 1998 and is currently the Vice Chairman. Bryon is a life member of the National Rifle Association, International Practical Shooting Confederation, Single Action Shooting Society, and the Amateur Trap Association. He is a past President of the Wyoming Muzzle Loaders Association and an avid Hunter and Fisherman. Bryon brings this sportsman’s background to the Board of Directors. Bryon lives west of Riverton with his wife Barbara and son Chancey. Bryon has been in the business management field for the last 25 years and is currently working in the Construction Industry as the General Manager of Sehnert Systems Inc. a multimillion dollar general contractor.
 

   
Roger Coles
Area V Director

PO Box 1005
Afton, WY 83110
307-885-3500
rcoles@1stbank-online.com

Roger has been a supervisor on the Star Valley Conservation District since 1993. Raised on a cattle ranch  in southwest Wyoming and a graduate of U W in Animal Science. He is currently involved with a yearling cattle operation and agricultural banking. He and his wife Diana have 3 grown children all living and working in Wyoming.

WACD Staff


Bobbie K. Frank, Executive Director
waocd@tribcsp.com


Kelly Brown, Program Specialist
kbrown@tribcsp.com

Cathy Rosenthal, Watershed Coordinator
crosenthal@tribcsp.com

NRCS Watershed Coordinator Liaison

Nephi Cole, Watershed Coordinator (NRCS)
nephi.cole@wy.usda.gov

 

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