Management Board
IWJV Management Board members share a common passion for bird and other wildlife habitat, as well as a strong desire to nurture and grow partnerships with other entities in order to accomplish significant and meaningful conservation work in the Intermountain West.
The IWJV is governed by an executive-level Management Board—including state fish and wildlife agency directors, federal agency and non-governmental organization leadership, corporate partners representing the energy sector, and influential western private landowners—ensuring that varying perspectives have a seat at the table to seek common ground for lasting conservation.
At its core, the Management Board is committed to achieving the IWJV’s goals of developing strong science, providing funding and leverage opportunities, strengthening the public-private partnership, employing strategic communications, and monitoring and evaluation of outcomes to accomplish its vitally important work.
Kim Brackett
Cattle Rancher
Brackett Ranches, Idaho
Kim Brackett
Cattle Rancher
Brackett Ranches, Idaho
Kim Brackett co-owns and operates Brackett Ranches Limited Partnership with her husband, Ira. Brackett Ranches is a cow/calf and stocker operation based in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Kim has extensive experience in the cattle industry, most recently serving as Chair of the Cattle Industry’s 2025 Long Range Plan Task Force, which creates the strategic plan for both the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. She also currently chairs the National Beef Quality Assurance Advisory Board that continually reviews research on animal welfare, antibiotic use, land use, and sustainable water management systems to bolster best management practices for the cattle industry. Kim serves on the Idaho Cattle Association’s Board of Directors and is active in her local cattle associations. She is a member of the Idaho Rangeland Conservation Partnership, along with the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. Prior to her current role, Kim served as Chairman of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, and as chair of both the Idaho Beef Council and the Idaho Beef Quality Assurance Advisory Board. Kim was selected as an Eisenhower Fellow in 2018. During her Fellowship, she studied regenerative agriculture practices in Argentina and Australia. Her primary interest lies in the benefits of intensive grazing on the landscape, particularly the impact it has on soil health and wildlife habitat. Kim and her husband, Ira, are both generational ranchers with a rich legacy of cattle ranching they hope to pass on to their children.
Jacque Buchanan
Rocky Mountain Deputy Regional Forester
USDA Forest Service
Jacque Buchanan
Rocky Mountain Deputy Regional Forester
USDA Forest Service
Ms. Jacque Buchanan has been a US Department of Agriculture/Forest Service employee for 32 years. Jacque is the Rocky Mountain Deputy Regional Forester for Resources for the US Forest Service. Prior to starting in this position, Jacque was the Director for Renewable Resources in the Rocky Mountain Region. Jacque also served as the Forest Supervisor on the Bridger-Teton NF in Jackson Hole, WY for three years and was the Deputy and Forest Supervisor on the Lincoln NF in the Southern part of New Mexico before then. Jacque has worked extensively in the area of International Forestry and has traveled to Brazil, Guyana, and India teaching Fire Leadership courses and helping those countries to establish both Fire and Wilderness management programs. Jacque started college in New Mexico and then transferred to Pennsylvania State University, completing her Bachelor of Science Degree in Natural Resources in May 1988. She has worked for several different agencies including, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency as well as the US Forest Service. Much of her background lies in Timber, Range, Fire, Recreation, and Public Affairs. She has worked in Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico, and North Carolina.
Jacque has an extensive background working with forest partners and groups, which allows her to communicate and focus on internal and external collaborative partnerships. Jacque has worked closely with numerous groups throughout the West and has served in the past as the President of the New Mexico Section of the Society of Range Management.
Jim Durglo
Wildland Fire Technical Specialist
Intertribal Timber Council
Jim Durglo
Wildland Fire Technical Specialist
Intertribal Timber Council
Jim is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Northwestern Montana (CSKT). He holds a B.S. in Forest Resource Management from the University of Montana (‘87. He currently has over 39 years of experience in wildland fire management, forest planning and management, and environmental compliance. He is currently the Intertribal Timber Council’s (ITC) Wildland Fire Technical Specialist, contractor. Durglo was the Forestry Department Head for the CSKT from 2003-2017. Prior to that, he was a Forestry Project Planning Program Manager, the National Environmental Policy Act Compliance Program Manager at CSKT; a Bureau of Indian Affair’s Environmental Specialist and Forestry Presales Officer at the Yakama Agency in Toppenish, WA; and a Presales Forester at the Warm Springs Agency in Central Oregon. Durglo also spent three summers with the US Forest Service as a smokejumper in Missoula, Montana
Jim Fredericks
Director
Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Jim Fredericks
Director
Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Jim is currently the director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. He was raised in northern Idaho where he grew up engaged in a range of outdoor pursuits. He attended the University of Idaho for his undergraduate education, earning a B.A. in psychology in 1988. After working in a psychiatric hospital for a year, he changed course and returned to the University of Idaho and earned an M.S. in Fishery Resources in 1994. Since that time, he’s worked for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, serving the agency as a Fishery Biologist, Regional Fishery Manager, Chief of the Fisheries Bureau, Deputy Director. He has served in leadership roles with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and the American Fisheries Society.
Kari Gibson
State Government Affairs Manager
ConocoPhillips
Kari Gibson
State Government Affairs Manager
ConocoPhillips
Based in Austin, Texas, Kari and her team manage state government affairs for the entire Lower 48. She previously served as State Government Affairs Manager for the Rockies Region in Denver, Colorado. Kari joined ConocoPhillips’ federal team in 2013, based in Washington, DC, where she served for three years. During this period, she played an integral role in lifting the federal ban on U.S. crude oil exports in 2015. In her current role, Kari manages the ConocoPhillips Avian Species Habitat Team, which works to develop relationships with key conservation partners. The team works with JVs across the Lower 48 including the JV8 Initiative focused on conserving grassland bids. She joined the IWJV Management Board in 2021 after serving on the Playa Lakes Joint Venture Management Board from 2015-2020. She also serves on the ConocoPhillips SPIRIT of Conservation program board, a partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Prior to joining ConocoPhillips, Kari worked on Capitol Hill, both for the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and for a western U.S. House of Representatives member. Kari began her career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. Kari holds a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University. She is a native of Bryan/College Station, Texas, and spends most of her free time with her family, outdoors, and traveling.
Erik Glenn
President – Partnership of Rangeland Trusts
Executive Director – Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
Erik Glenn
President
Partnership of Rangeland Trusts
Executive Director
Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
Erik is the President of the Partnership of Rangeland Trusts (PORT). PORT is a membership organization made up of 9 agriculturally focused land trusts that operate in 11 states across the West and Midwest. Collectively, PORT members have helped to conserve more than 3 million acres of productive agricultural land. Erik also serves as the Executive Director of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CCALT).
Erik has facilitated the completion of more than 150 conservation easement transactions and helped to secure more than $20M in grants for the purchase of conservation easements throughout Colorado. Erik holds a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Management from Colorado State University, a Master of Resource Law Studies from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and an MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. Erik also serves on the Board of Directors of Keep it Colorado, Parker Core Knowledge Charter School, and is a Trustee of the Western Stock Show Association.
In his free time, Erik enjoys coaching youth soccer, reading, fishing, hunting, and exploring new places with his wife Shelby and their three children – Theodore, Henry, and Abigail.
Tomer Hasson
Western States Senior Policy Advisor
The Nature Conservancy
Tomer Hasson
Western States Senior Policy Advisor
The Nature Conservancy
Tomer Hasson has served as Western States Senior Policy Advisor for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) since 2016. Prior to joining TNC, Tomer worked at high levels of the federal government including the office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Department of the Interior and the White House Office of Management and Budget, where he was responsible for executive oversight of a $2 billion federal budget. Tomer has considerable depth in knowledge concerning government-wide budget and policy processes and decision-making, public lands management, application of mitigation hierarchy, and wildlife conservation. In 2014, the Executive Office of the President awarded Tomer a Professional Achievement Award. In his current role at TNC, Tomer supports efforts to develop and execute policy strategies for conservation goals in the western U.S. Tomer is a cum laude graduate of San Diego State University, a Round River Conservation Studies alum, and holds a master’s in Environmental Management from the Nicolas School of the Environment at Duke University. Tomer lives with his wife, Wendy, and their son in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys all that the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
Matt Hogan
Regional Director
Region 6, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Matt Hogan
Regional Director
Region 6, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
After earning a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York, Matt Hogan started his career as a legislative director and legislative assistant for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Hogan has served as Executive Director of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, where he worked with state fish and wildlife conservation agencies to promote a unified vision for sound management and conservation of fish and wildlife.
Hogan has also served in executive leadership roles in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as the Department of the Interior. He has extensive conservation experience in the NGO community developing networks and alliances to achieve conservation goals.
