Board of Directors
Philanthropist and green builder, Talent, OR
Grey and his family have lived in southern Oregon since 1997. He is president of the Sangham Foundation, an organic farmer, and owner of a green construction firm. Grey has a B.A. in environmental studies from Southern Oregon University. He brings a wealth of experience to the board in the form of non-profit oversight, ecosystem restoration, and philanthropic relations.Jim Bowne, Board Treasurer
Licensed Tax Consultant, Ashland, OR
Jim is a lifelong naturalist, longtime environmental and human right activist, designer of Zen gardens and a former Buddhist monastic monk. He currently works as a tax consultant and accountant in Ashland and helps KS Wild on financial matters. Jim has lived in southern Oregon for 15 years and brings a wealth of experience to KS Wild.
Shannon Clery
Botanist, Ashland, OR
Shannon is a botanist, naturalist and educator who has lived in the Klamath-Siskiyous for seven years and served on the KS Wild Board of Directors for four years. Her graduate work at Southern Oregon University involved a botanical inventory and conservation project in the threatened Condrey Mountain Roadless Area on the Siskiyou Crest, which contributed to advocacy work being done by KS Wild.
Liz Crosson
Coastal Program Manager with Environment Now, Venice, CA
In additon to being a naturalist, avid birder, and Klamath-Siskiyou
enthusiast, Liz is the Coastal Program Manager for Environment Now in
Santa Monica, CA. She works with allies to eliminate pollution and
prevent degradation of California and Baja California's coastal
ecosystems through grassroots advocacy and litigation. Liz gained
environmental advocacy experience working for several non-profits in
Oregon and California, including KS Wild. Liz has an undergraduate
degree from UC Berekely and a J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School.
Shelley Elkovich, Board President
Community organizer, homeschooling mom, Ashland, OR
Shelley, her partner Jeff Heglie, and their children Aubyn and Rowan, have made Ashland their home since 2000. The Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains are the family's unschooling "classroom" and they enjoy birding and backpacking in the bioregion. Shelley is an organic gardener, writer and avid crafter. Before moving to Ashland, they lived rurally and Shelley ran a home-based business. She is an active community member who enjoys including her kids in creative, grass-roots organizing that models justice, compassion, and a love of wild places. Locally, she has been instrumental in forest protection campaigns, in starting a new community garden, the effort to stop the Mt. Ashland Ski Expansion, and an ACLU legal case defending free speech.
Joseph Flaherty
Elementary school teacher, O'Brien, OR
An avid snowboarder, Joseph Flaherty got involved in the work of KS Wild
in 2000 in support of the campaign to protect the Mount Ashland
watershed. He also spent part of a summer sitting in an old Douglas
Fir hoping to stop the Peak Timber Sale in the upper Rogue basin. Joseph
worked for KS Wild for a while as a door-to-door canvasser raising
awareness of local forest issues. While a college student at
Southern Oregon University, he edited and published the campus paper the
Soapbox. Recently, he moved to the Illinois Valley where he works
as a primary school teacher. He continues to ride his snowboard,
but now he has to hike for his turns in the wild western Siskiyou.
Scott Harding
Photographer, river guide, Somes Bar, CA
Scott is the Executive Director of Klamath Riverkeeper, a close conservation ally of KS Wild. A 10 year resident of the Klamath-Siskiyou, Scott moved to the region as a geologist with the Siskiyou National Forest. He currently resides on the North Fork Salmon River, on the southern edge of California’s Marble Mountains. Scott works as a freelance photographer and as a whitewater kayaking instructor on the Salmon River. Scott has been involved in various environmental and community projects as a photographer, web developer, brush-cutter, writer and activist.
Tracy Harding
Small business owner, community activist, Ashland, OR
Tracy has lived in Ashland since 2001. She is a skilled community organizer and active civic participant. She currently serves on Ashland’s Conservation Commission. She is involved in numerous local campaigns, including a woman’s right to choose, opposing nuclear proliferation, and fighting the proposed Mt. Ashland ski expansion. Tracy is a thoughtful artisan and loving mother of two. As a successful small business owner, Tracy recently began Reclamation Goods to sell handmade natural fiber products that encourage responsible consumption and suggest that small changes in everyday behavior can have positive consequences for generations to come.
Stuart O’Neill, Board Secretary
Organic dairy farmer/cheese-maker, community organizer, Jacksonville, OR
Stuart has lived in the
Klamath-Siskiyou for 13 years. His studies in geology at Southern
Oregon University, along with a brief stint doing riparian surveys for
the Medford BLM, introduced him to the wildlands of this region. He
has worked as a community organizer on numerous environmental and
social justice campaigns in the KS region and beyond. Stuart lives and
works on a farmstead goat dairy and produces artisan cheeses in the
foothills of the Siskiyou Crest.
Gene Rhough
Attorney, Brooklyn, NY
Gene is a corporate and intellectual property lawyer focused on digital entertainment, and is currently the VP of Global Digital & New Media at MTV Networks. His practice has included many well-known digital content companies, including Napster, Warner Music Group and Apple Computer, as well as a number of non-profits, including the Rainforest Action Network, the San Francisco Design Museum and Precita Eyes Mural Arts Association. He has an undergraduate degree from M.I.T. and a law degree from Harvard Law School.
The Klamath-Siskiyou Region
Fire Ecology and Policy
Responsible Use
