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.

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 (Vice-Chair) U.S. Forest Service, Region 2
- Matt Hogan U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- Toby Boudreau Idaho Fish & Game
- Hannah Anderson Washington Fish & Wildlife
- Richard King Wyoming Game and Fish
- 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
- 2020 Executive Committee Winter Meeting
- Agenda
- Information, Education & Outreach update (presented by Lori Roberts)
- IGBC Executive Committee report
- Montana Governor’s Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Overview (presented by Cole Mannix)
- Bear Smart Community Program Overview (presented by Mike Badry)
- Human Dimensions Survey Overview (presented by Cecily Costello)
- Subcommittee Workplan and Progress Reports
- Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee Report (presented by Jim White)
- North Cascades Ecosystem Subcommittee Report (presented by Kristin Bail)
- Bitterroot Ecosystem Subcommittee Report (presented by Chuck Mark)
- Selkirk/Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem Subcommittee Report (presented by Ben Conard)
- Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem Subcommittee Report (presented by Randy Arnold)
- 2020 Executive Committee Summer Meeting, Part 2
- 2020 Executive Committee Summer Meeting, Part 1
- Virtual Meeting Video
- Agenda
- Summer Meeting Introduction and Agency Reports
- Conflict Trend Summary
- Information, Education & Outreach Subcommittee Report
- Information, Education, Outreach Summit Report
- Montana Governor’s Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Update
- Bear-Resistant Products Testing Program Update
- 2019 Executive Committee Winter Meeting Presentations:
- Agenda
- IGBC Strategic Meeting Review
- IGBC Information, Education & Outreach (IEO) Subcommittee: 2019 Winter Meeting
- Mortality and Conflict Trends: Introduction (IGBST)
- IGBC Bear-Resistant Container Testing Program
- YES Accomplishments & Program of Work Reports
- Preliminary recommendations for reducing human-bear conflicts and grizzly bear mortalities in the Yellowstone Ecosystem (Interagency Tech Team)
- Selkirk/Cabinet-Yaak Subcommittee of IGBC: Mortality Report
- NCDE Grizzly Bear Conflict & Mortality Report
- 2019 Executive Committee Summer Meeting Summary
- 2018 Executive Committee Winter Meeting Summary
- 2018 Grizzly Bear Mortality Overview
- Presentations:
- Information & Education Subcommittee
- 2018 Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem Grizzly Bear Capture and Mortality Report
- Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem – IGBC Update – December 2018
- North Cascades Ecosystem 2018
- Selkirk and Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear Monitoring
- Selkirk and Cabinet-Yaak Subcommittee’s Report of 2018 Accomplishments and 2019 Planned Actions to the IGBC
- WMI Information, Education, and Outreach Update
- 2017 Executive Committee Winter Meeting Summary – 12/12/2017
- 2017 Executive Committee Summer Meeting Summary – 6/20/2017
- 2016 Executive Committee Winter Meeting Summary – 12/13/2016
- 2016 Executive Committee Summer Meeting Summary -6/21/2016
- 2015 Executive Committee Winter Meeting Summary – 12/9/2015
- 2015 Bitterroot Accomplishments & Program of Work for 2016
- 2015 North Cascades Accomplishments
- 2015 NCDE Accomplishments
- 2015 SCY Accomplishments
- 2016 SCY Work Plan
- 2016 YES Work Plan
- Recordings or the meeting presentations on YouTube as a playlist. (Click on upper left-hand corner of the video screen for playlist contents).
- 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
- 2015 Executive Committee Summer Meeting Summary – 6/17/2015
- 2015 IGBC Information & Education Update
- 2015 North Cascades Ecosystem Restoration Work Plan
- 2015 Wildlife Management Institute Information, Education and Outreach Update
- 2015 Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem Monitoring Update
- 2015 Grizzly Bear Population Expansion along the Rocky Mountain Front and Plains
- Evolution of Bear Management in Glacier National Park
- 2014 Executive Committee Winter Meeting Summary – 12/10/2014
- 2014 Executive Committee Summer Meeting Summary – 6/26/2014