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pull quotepull quoteJOHN A. BADEN, PH.D.

N.S.F. Post Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Policy 1970
Indiana University, Ph.D. 1969
Wittenberg University, B.A. 1963

After completing his Ph.D. thesis on the political economy of the Canadian and U.S. Hutterite colonies, Baden was awarded a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellowship in environmental policy and was appointed visiting assistant professor (1969-1970) at Indiana University. Baden returned to Bozeman, Montana, in 1970 where he taught political science and economics at Montana State University. He then directed the Environmental Studies Program at Utah State University, where he was a tenured associate professor of political science and forestry.

In 1978, Baden established the Center for Political Economy and Natural Resources at Montana State University. In 1986, Baden founded the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE). He co-founded Gallatin Writers in 1991 with Ramona Marotz-Baden and currently serves as chairman of both organizations. Baden also co-founded the Environmental Management MBA program at the University of Washington. Baden and his wife, Ramona Marotz-Baden, own and operate a ranch in the Gallatin Valley of Montana and an orchard near Zillah, Washington.

pull quotepull quoteRAMONA MAROTZ-BADEN, PH.D.

Post-graduate work: Marriage and Family Therapy, Presbyterian Counseling Service, Seattle, 1990
Ph.D., Family Social Science; Supporting field in History & Anthropology of Latin America, University of Minnesota, 1970
M.S., Montana State University,1963
B.S., Idaho State University, 1961

Marotz-Baden is co-author or co-editor of six books and several dozen published articles. Her interest in community and culture are evidenced by her work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile and by three of her co-authored books, Adolescent Socialization in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Socialization for Social Change, The War of Ideas in Latin America, and Families in Rural America: Stress, Adaptation, and Change. She has been the principle investigator (PI) or co-PI of over a dozen research projects during her academic career. The largest was a cross-cultural study comparing how parents socialize their children for social change in an industrializing society(Mexico) with this process in a post-industrial society (US).

In addition to her work as the program coordinator for Gallatin Writers, she is a full professor in health and human development at Montana State University.

pull quotepull quotePETE GEDDES, M.S.

A native of New York State, Pete Geddes received his bachelor of science from St. Lawrence University and his master of science from the University of Montana School of Forestry where he was awarded a Gloria Barton-Wilderness Society Scholarship . He is co-editor with John Baden of, Saving a Place: Endangered Species in the 21st Century published by Ashgate Press. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Forestry, The Wall Street Journal, the Seattle Times and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

In his current position Pete is responsible for developing new programs consistent with Gallatin's mission. His additional duties include planning and supporting Gallatin's fundraising efforts and representing Gallatin at special events, professional conferences, and through opinion editorials. He lives with his wife, Julie, and three boys, Chris-11, Ryan-9, and David-4 in Bozeman, Montana.

DONALD SNOW, M.A.

Snow is the Mellon Professor of Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. From 1984-2001, he served as executive director of Northern Lights Institute (NLI) in Missoula, Montana, where he founded the acclaimed journal Northern Lights Magazine, and in 1996, the Chronicle of Community.

He is the author of a national study of U.S. environmental organizations, Inside the Environmental Movement (Island Press, 1990). His new book, currently in press, is Sustaining Place: The Persistence of the Local in an Era of Globalization.

Several of his books are edited volumes of original essays on the American West. With Deborah Clow, he edited Northern Lights: A Selection of New Writing from the American West (Vintage, 1994). With John A. Baden, he edited The Next West: Public Lands, Community and Economy in the American West (Island Press,1997). The Book of the Tongass (with Carolyn Servid), was released in 1999 from Milkweed Editions, followed in 2001 by Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West (Island Press).


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