Lynne has spent her professional career bringing diverse groups of people together around shared conservation goals and exploring what it mean to be human as part and parcel of the natural world. Lynne believes that doing things by hand and at a human pace allows an intimacy with place, community and home that is needed for the solutions to our trickiest environmental dilemmas. It’s no wonder she she has such an appreciation for Wild Arizona’s wilderness hand-crews.

Lynne received her masters degree in Natural Resources from the University of Idaho and her undergraduate degree in Geology from Colorado College. In 2013, she founded the Cloud City Conservation Center in Leadville, Colorado. Lynne has guided all over the West and the world, and is currently a river guide and trip leader for Canyon Explorations on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, sometimes.

She takes Wild Arizona’s moto ‘know it, love it, protect it’ to heart and to ground. Some of her favorite wild places are tucked away in the red rock canyons and mesas of the Colorado Plateau, along the Mogollon Rim, on traditional tribal land, and in her home watershed of the Little Colorado River where she lives with her husband Josh and doggie Sola in their off-grid house amid the juniper savannah.  She loves monsoons, boating in all sorts of river craft, reading anything she can get her hands on, making things out of mud, perfecting her pad thai recipe, and singing really loudly to Cindy Lauper while playing her grandmother’s ukulele.