IGBC Executive Committee

The IGBC Memorandum of Understanding and the Committee Charter direct the Executive Committee to provide overall guidance for approved projects as detailed in the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan and associated management decisions.

Each year, the IGBC Executive Committee meets in the winter in Missoula, Montana and in the summer within one of the grizzly bear recovery ecosystems. Specifically, the Executive Committee takes the following actions during their business meetings:

  • Implements the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan, and all management and research activities necessary to provide for recovery of the grizzly bear
  • Directs research and monitoring activities
  • Makes joint recommendations to Federal and State agency heads
  • Reviews and approves or disapproves actions proposed by Subcommittees
  • Make provisions for implementation of approved actions

The chairmanship of the IGBC executive committee rotates every two years.

executive committee
Front Row left to right:
Frank van Manen, Martha Williams, Ellen Davis, Rollie White, Ann Froschauer, Karen Taylor-Goodrich, Jacque Buchanan
Back Row left to right:
Toby Boudreau, Mike Philbin, Hilary Cooley, Chris Savage, Eric Johnston, Pat Walsh, Randy Arnold, Jodi Bush, Penny Becker, Rodney Smoldon, Kim Annis, Matt Hogan, Scott Jackson, Lori Roberts, Tim Woolley, Tricia O’Connor, Mike Wrigley and Chuck Mark

Executive Committee Membership

  • Martha Williams (Chair) Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
  • Jacque Buchanan (Co-Chair) U.S. Forest Service, Region 2
  • Toby Boudreau Idaho Fish & Game
  • Tim Woolley Wyoming Game & Fish 
  • Eric Gardner Washington Fish & Wildlife
  • Chris Savage U.S. Forest Service, Region 1
  • Mary Farnsworth U.S. Forest Service, Region 4
  • Eric Johnston U.S. Forest Service, Region 6
  • Jim Unsworth U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Region 1
  • Pat Walsh National Park Service, Intermountain Region
  • Karen Taylor-Goodrich North Cascades National Park
  • Claudia Regan Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, USGS
  • Mike Philbin Montana State Bureau of Land Management (also represents Idaho State BLM and Wyoming State BLM)

Canadian partners

  • Matt Besko Alberta Environment and Parks
  • Jennifer Psyllakis Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, BC

Advisors to the IGBC Executive Committee

  • Hilary Cooley U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator
  • Frank van Manen Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, USGS
  • Scott Jackson U.S. Forest Service, National Carnivore Program
  • Lori Roberts (IGBC IEO Chair) Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Information, Education & Outreach Subcommittee 

  • Lori Roberts (IGBC IEO Chair) Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks 
  • Kim Annis (IGBC IEO Vice Chair) Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
  • Amy Baumer U.S. Forest Service (Bitterroot Ecosystem Subcommittee)
  • Dillon Tabish Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem Subcommittee)
  • Denise Schultz National Park Service (North Cascades Ecosystem Subcommittee)
  • Danielle Oyler Wildlife Management Institute (Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee) 

Executive Committee Meetings

Refer to the Meeting Calendar for upcoming meetings

Meeting summaries and presentations

  • Information and Education Update
  • Wildlife Management Institute Support to the IGBC
  • Update on IGBC Bear Resistant Container-Testing and Certification Program
  • IGBC and Subcommittee Ecosystems Five-Year Action Plan
  • Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team 2015 Research and Monitoring Summary
  • GYE Grizzly Bear Population Monitoring & New Genetic Research
  • Selkirk Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystems Accomplishments and Research Updates
  • Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem 2015 Report
  • 2015 IGBC Expenditure Report
  • North Cascades Ecosystem and EIS Update
  • Bitterroot Ecosystem Update 1
  • Bitterroot Ecosystem Update 2

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