Where are they now?
When not conducting “outdoor research”—i.e. hunting big game in Europe, Africa and the American West—Wayne van Zwoll tests and evaluates guns, ammo and other gear and writes about it in Bugle and other publications. He and his wife Alice live in Bridgeport, Washington.
After leaving RMEF in 1991, George Kaminski returned to Wyoming to be closer to his grandchildren. He worked there as an information officer for the Bureau of Land Management until his retirement in 1997. He and his wife Fran live in Cheyenne.
Terry Cloutier served for three years as CEO of the Mule Deer Foundation and is now a private investigator. He lives in Sparks, Nevada, with his wife Karen and their son Cameron and daughter Dominique. All four are Elk Foundation life members.
Still a road warrior, Marty Holmes has been Southwest regional field coordinator for Safari Club International since 2007. He reckons he’s now attended more than 300 fundraising banquets in his conservation career. He and his wife Angela live near Coaldale, Colorado.
Gary Burnett left the Elk Foundation in 2006. He is currently executive director of The Blackfoot Challenge, a private/public land stewardship and conservation cooperative in western Montana. He and his wife Wanda live in Potomac, Montana.
Ron White and his wife Pat live in Brentwood, Tennessee, where Ron has established a home inspection business. “To this day I often tell my grandkids how proud I am to have been part of eastern elk reintroduction. It’s my legacy,” he says.
Lyle Dorey still lives in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, where he is a planner and construction foreman for the Clearwater County Roads Department. “Wildlife was good to me all my life, and RMEF gave me an opportunity to give back,” he says.
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