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The Milton Ranch

Contributors

Wendy Beye

Wendy Beye is a freelance writer who lives near Roundup in the Musselshell River basin.  Her work has been published in High Country News of Paonia, Colorado, with some articles syndicated to newspapers across the region.  She has a keen interest in agricultural history, wildlife, and natural resource conservation.  Recent projects include a series of stories featuring photos of historic barns in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, a water history of the Musselshell River basin, and a contract with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to assist in developing a water resource plan for the state.  She graduated the University of Montana with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature.

Karen Porter

Karen Porter is retired from the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology (MBMG), in Butte, MT, where she directed the geologic mapping program and conducted field research. Research was focused primarily on Montana’s geologic history, particularly of the Cretaceous Period in central Montana, on which she has a number of publications. Prior to being at MBMG, Porter was an independent consultant in the petroleum industry, working in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. She holds a BA in Geology-Zoology from Mount Holyoke College, an MS in Geology from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines. She lives in Butte, MT.

David Jaynes

 David Jaynes graduated from Texas Tech University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Rangeland Science.  He served in the Peace Corps in Shiraz Iran from 1973 to 1974, then earned a Master’s Degree in Soil Science in 1977, again at Texas Tech.  He went right to work for the Bureau of Land Management in Elko, Nevada in 1977, later transferred to Billings, and finally to Miles City before retirement in 2010.

Cliff Montagne

Cliff Montagne is Professor Emeritus of Soil Science at Montana State University. Interested in landscapes, people and sustainable livelihoods, Cliff works to build capacities for well-informed natural resource management through the process of Holistic Management. He collaborated with Roland Kroos to develop and teach Holistic Management at Montana State University and directs BioRegions International (bioregions.org), an organization working at local levels to improve environment, society, and economy in Mongolia.   

Wayne Phillips

Wayne Phillips worked 33 years for the U.S. Forest Service as a smokejumper, forester, range manager, and forest ecologist. His passion is botany/plant ecology. Since 1982, Wayne has taught a variety of wildflower and fire ecology classes at the Yellowstone Association Institute and various other venues. He is a charter member and past president of the Montana Native Plant Society. Wayne has written three field guide books: Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, Falcon Press, 1999; Northern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, The Globe-Pequot Press, 2001; and The Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Mountain Press, 2003. 

Sarah Juster

​Sarah Juster apprenticed at Milton Ranch in 2012 during a leave of absence from college. She spent the next several years doing full-time Buddhist seminary training at the Zen Buddhist Temple in Ann Arbor, Michigan and New York City, where she was ordained as a junior priest. She now lives on the coast of Maine doing farm and carpentry work. She remembers her time with the Milton's very fondly and is grateful to them for the enriching experience which they provided her!