Becky received her Master of Environmental and Natural Resources Law with specializations in Public Land Law and Water Law from the University of Denver and a BA in Political Science from Colorado College. She has overseen the planning, management, and implementation of countless trail and restoration projects throughout the Southern Colorado Rockies and Utah, including the Sangre de Cristo mountain range, Garden of the Gods Park, Indian Creek Canyon, Castleton Tower and Shelf Road Recreation Area. She brings over a decade of experience in the outdoor and environmental industry, working with government agencies, stakeholders, and the public. Prior to her current position, Becky served as RMFI’s Associate Director and Program Director. A Colorado native and avid climber and skier, Becky has spent most of her life seeking adventure in the outdoors. Becky's passion lies in the social science aspect of land conservation with a focus on the intersection between people, policy, and the environment.  She is a certified Wilderness First Responder.

Eric brings his lifelong passion for understanding the processes that shape our natural world to RMFI. In 2003, as an undergraduate student, he completed an extensive survey for RMFI that assessed the erosion and sedimentation damage to the Pikes Peak Watershed's streams and wetlands due to stormwater runoff from the Pikes Peak Highway. Eric continued to examine the issues of erosion and sediment transport on Pikes Peak while earning his master's degree in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Since 2005, Eric has served as RMFI's Pikes Peak Project Coordinator, Associate Director, Executive Director, and currently as the Research Director. During this time, Eric has designed and implemented a multitude of erosion control and stream and wetland restoration projects throughout the Pikes Peak Region, including projects on Pikes Peak, Fountain Creek, and within the Hayman Burn Area. Eric has initiated several research studies throughout RMFI's varying project areas with a focus on quantitatively assessing the effectiveness of implemented restoration and erosion control techniques. Eric also serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs teaching courses on Physical Geography, Environmental Geology, GPS, and GIS.

Hailing from Western Pennsylvania, Joe moved to Colorado in 2005 to pursue his interest of the natural world. Joe graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs with a degree in Geography and Environmental Studies with a focus on Sustainable Development. Just prior to working for RMFI, Joe served as Director of the Colorado Springs Conservation Corps working on energy efficiency projects in the Pikes Peak Region. He has been involved with RMFI since 2008, first as an Earth Corps participant and more recently as a Field Instructor. He can often be found pursuing any of his favorite recreational activities: fly fishing, skiing, and hiking. Joe is a NOLS-Alaska graduate and certified Wilderness EMT.

Liz received her BA at McGill University, and put in two years at York University in a Master in Environmental Studies program. She was an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School and Peak Performance, guided for Adventure Specialists, was the bookkeeper for Collins & McConnel law firm and owned and managed Ceres’ Harvest Natural Foods. She founded the Everest Environmental Project to clean up climbers’ camps on Mount Everest, after being a member of the 1987 American Everest North Face Expedition; created the Hummingbird Garden at Starsmore Discovery Center, and was treasurer of the board of the Friends of Cheyenne Canon. Liz joined RMFI’s staff in 2003.

Born and raised in Vermont, Dan attended St. Lawrence University in upstate New York where he majored in biology. Prior to joining RMFI, Dan worked as an AmeriCorps member with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation. With the Washington State Department of Natural Resources he mapped native and non-native plant communities on state-owned lands in Washington State. Dan worked as the team leader of the Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation Watershed Team, an AmeriCorps team charged with maintaining riparian plantings and a municipal trail network in Southwestern Washington. Dan enjoys skiing, hiking, and mountaineering. When not working or recreating, he is diligently studying maps and guidebooks in the midst of planning his next backcountry trip. Dan joined the RMFI staff in 2012.

Mark holds undergraduate and Masters degrees in education from the Univ. of Colorado at Boulder. He is presently a Masters degree candidate in Applied Geography at the Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Mark served as executive director of The American Mountain Foundation from 1989 to 1998, and of the Rocky Mountain Field Institute from 1999 to 2008. Prior to assuming the directorship of the AMF/RMFI, Mark worked for over 20 years in the field of outdoor education with a variety of populations. He was employed in various capacities for the Colorado Outward Bound School from Instructor to Project Director of the Colorado Springs Program. He served as Program Director of the Southwest Outward Bound School on the early 80's. In the late 70's, Mark co-founded the Santa Fe Mountain Center, an adventure-based therapeutic program for adjudicated youth and adults in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a recipient of the American Alpine Club's David Brower Award for Mountain Conservation.

J.B. comes to RMFI with extensive backcountry experience and a strong sense of adventure and exploration.  He has 13 years of outdoor experience as an instructor and guide, and brings a breadth of technical and project management knowledge to the programs he facilitates. He holds a degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois.  Post graduation he served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala.  J.B’s diverse professional experience stems from managing volunteers in a variety of capacities, from working with adjudicated youth to coordinating operations for corporate development organizations.  J.B. is an avid climber and has spent 12 years exploring throughout the Americas in landscapes that run the gamut of levels of human impact. A strong awareness for such impact and an interest in mitigating the balance between modern society and the rest of the world drew him to RMFI in 2008. J.B. instructs the Earth Corps program and various other assignments throughout the summer season.  J.B. is certified in Wilderness First Responder.

Andrea is conducting restoration monitoring and effectiveness research in the Hayman Burn Area for the 2011 field season. Andrea is currently in her first year of graduate school at UCCS in the Applied Geography Master's program. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina but originally hail from Rockville, Maryland. Her current research interests in geography are restoration, geomorphology and cultural geography, with her main focus on human-environment interactions as seen in the landscape. In her free time she enjoys hiking, snowboarding, longboarding, rock climbing, yoga and seeing live music.

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Hilary is conducting restoration monitoring and effectiveness research in the Hayman Burn Area for the 2011 field season. A love for nature and adventure brought Hilary, a New England native, to her current home in Colorado Springs. She attends Colorado College and is majoring in Environmental Science. She became acquainted with RMFI through the Earth Corps program in 2010 and has continued to volunteer by taking botanical surveys of RMFI's restoration in the Garden of the Gods. She enjoys hiking, skiing, and biking, leading trips through the Colorado College outdoor program, and is a Wilderness First Responder.

Jes is an outdoor adventure enthusiast who has been involved with RMFI for many years as a volunteer, Earth Corps participant, and most recently as a field instructor. She is a Colorado native who has returned home after nine years of living on an ocean, and although she misses surfing, the opportunity for outdoor pursuits in Colorado was welcoming. Jes has extensive experience in guiding rock climbing, caving, surfing, backpacking, and rafting.  In addition to RMFI, Jes works as a rock climbing guide, housecarer, and model. She can often be found getting scared in high places. Jes received her BS in Marine Science from Eckerd College in Florida.  She is certified in Wilderness First Responder.

Bruce has been a guide and outdoor educator for over thirty years. In his work and wanderings he has explored throughout the Four Corners states and California’s mountains and deserts. He became involved in public lands stewardship in the early nineties while working for the Colorado Outward Bound School, and witnessing social trails and erosion scars develop over just a few summers in formerly pristine areas of the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. In addition to Outward Bound, Bruce has also worked for the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative and the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center.  Bruce started working with the Rocky Mountain Field Institute in 1991, and has since been involved with RMFI projects in the Sangre de Cristos, Shelf Road, the San Luis Valley, and Indian Creek, Utah. He lives in Leadville, Colorado. When not working, he skis, mountain bikes, fishes, and volunteers for the Leadville Ranger District.

Kyle Rodman, a Colorado native, is a Geography major at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He began working with the Rocky Mountain Field Institute as an employee of the U.S. Forest Service YCC program in 2006. Through this experience and his extensive outdoor pursuits he decided he wanted a career in ecological and environmental restoration. Kyle is an avid snowboarder, hiker, backpacker and landscape photographer.

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