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BOARD AND STAFF

The Cinnabar Foundation Board of Directors currently consists of five members: 
  • Grant Parker, General Counsel to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation specializing in land and habitat conservation, natural resources and nonprofit law, serves as the Foundation board president; (Missoula, Montana); 
  • Teresa Erickson, Senior Advisor at Northern Plains Resource Council, serves as board vice president (Billings, Montana).
  • Duane Moulton, a partner in the accounting firm Holmes & Turner, serves as treasurer and oversees the Foundation’s financial records (Bozeman, Montana); 
  • Gary Wolfe, a lifelong conservationist, with 47 years in conservation and natural resource management in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, serves as board secretary (Missoula, Montana); and
  • Douglas Chadwick, a wildlife biologist and natural history journalist, who contracts mainly with the National Geographic Society, which has sent him to explore ecosystems from Siberia to the Congo (Whitefish, Montana). 

Emeritus Directors
  • Judi Stauffer, an artist and community activist, and wife of the late Rick Hubbard Sargent, sustains the Sargent family’s environmental ethic and board representation, and serves as vice president (Santa Ynez Valley, California);
  • Robin Tawney Nichols, a writer and community activist, served as the Foundation board president for many years and now serves as board member emeritus (Missoula, Montana);
  • Gordon (Corky) Brittan, a rancher, environmental entrepreneur and Regents Professor at MSU, serves as board member emeritus (Livingston, Montana); 
  • Ernest Turner, a partner in the accounting firm Holmes & Turner, served as the Foundation’s investment advisor and treasurer for many years and now serves as board member emeritus (Bozeman, Montana); and
  • Jim Posewitz (deceased), was a conservationist, educator, founding Cinnabar Foundation board member, and Cinnabar's first executive director.  Following his retirement as an active board member, Jim served as board member emeritus until his death in July 2020.
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STAFF
  • Joshua Bernard, Grants Management Officer (Bozeman, Montana)​
  • Beverly Dupree, Program Officer (Missoula, Montana)
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