Kari Gunderson is the education coordinator and instructor for the Wilderness Management Education Program. Kari received her M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana and has a Ph.D. in Recreation, Park, & Leisure Studies from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. For her dissertation Kari evaluated the K-8 "Wilderness and Land Ethic" curriculum with support from the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute. Kari makes her home in the Swan Valley of northwestern Montana, where she has worked as a wilderness ranger, educator, and field manager in the Mission Mountains Wilderness for 28 years. kari.gunderson@umontana.edu

Lisa Gerloff is the WMDEP manager. Although Lisa traveled north to earn her M.S. in geology from the University of Calgary, her study area for her thesis (environmental change) was the Mission Mountains of Montana. Lisa still spends much of her time in the Missions and other wildllands of Montana hiking, backpacking, and skiing with her husband and their dogs. Lisa is also the executive coordinator for the Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU), a university/agency partnership to promote and facilitate research, education and technical assistance focusing on natural resources, cultural resources and environmental issues of the Rocky Mountains states. (406) 243-5346; wmdep@cfc.umt.edu