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Tony Schoonen

Tony Schoonen is the CEO of the Boone and Crockett Club.

Gray Thornton

Gray Thornton is the president and CEO of the Wild Sheep Foundation.

Kyle Weaver

Kyle Weaver is the president and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

Travis Conner

Travis Conner is a conservation law fellow at PERC as well as a J.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from Murray State University. Travis worked as a legal intern with the National Wild Turkey Federation, where he developed a strong interest inContinue reading “Travis Conner”

Nathan Bol

Nathan Bol served as a policy assistant at PERC in 2025.. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he played on the men’s lacrosse team. Since then, he has worked in private investment and as a wildland firefighter. A native Coloradan, Nathan is passionate about western natural resourceContinue reading “Nathan Bol”

Kelvey Vander Hart

Kelvey Vander Hart is a senior fellow at the Wilberforce Institute, a think tank dedicated to market-based solutions for animal welfare. She writes about ocean conservation and marine life at The Saltwater Chronicles and market-based environmentalism everywhere else.

Blake Henning

Blake Henning is the chief conservation officer for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Blake holds a B.S. in Wildlife Management and Agriculture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.S. degree in Wildlife Biology from Kansas State University. After working in natural resource management for several years with the State of Kansas including a positionContinue reading “Blake Henning”

Joe Hamm

Joe Hamm is a conservation innovation fellow at PERC, as well as a final-year Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, where he researches results-based payments for large carnivore conservation. He holds an MSc in Biology and an MA in Social Research, and has previously published peer-reviewed articles on the conservation ofContinue reading “Joe Hamm”

Will Price

Will Price is a PERC board member and founder of Next Frontier Captial, a firm that invests in mission-driven, talented entrepreneurs to build Montana technology companies of impact, utility, and value. Will’s career spans venture capital investing as well as operational, transactional, and advisory roles at both public and private companies. With a Montana familyContinue reading “Will Price”

Lindsay Coe

Lindsay Coe is PERC’s digital content producer. She holds an MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University and two BAs in Applied Anthropology and Journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder. Lindsay is a fundamentally curious storyteller with a distinct artistic vision, specializing in long-form visual content production, branding and identity,Continue reading “Lindsay Coe”