Lynne has spent her professional career dividing her time between conservation initiatives and guiding in the wild places of the West. She strives to bring connection and love for the natural world into every aspect of human life. 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. Since her days guiding on the Forks of the Kern in California, Lynne has guided all over the West and the world, including on the Futaleufu, the Zanskar, and the Alsek, and is currently a river guide and trip leader for Canyon Explorations in Grand Canyon.

Some of her favorite wild places are tucked away in the red rock canyons and mesas of the Colorado Plateau, along the Mogollon Rim, 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.