Community

Strong, healthy communities, where people can thrive, depend on healthy lands and healthy relationships among people. 

Cache and Rich counties are blessed with beautiful lands, waters, and skies. We rely on these for our livelihoods, health, recreation, and overall well-being. We must act to keep clean and sufficient waters, to have cleaner air, and to accommodate changes in the ways we live and work and in our environment. We must act to meet the major challenge of global warming, including the changes that rising temperatures already have brought and that threaten our future.

I have life-long experience of rural and developing places. I grew up in them, and I and my family continue to live and work primarily in them. I value public lands, agricultural and other working landscapes, and healthy neighborhoods and communities. As a scientist, I am part of the professional community that helps discover options to manage and sustain our lands, waters, and vibrant landscapes. I also am one of the many who work to anticipate, reduce, and adapt as the environment around us changes. I will work to preserve a healthy landscape that supports the lives and livelihoods of Cache and Rich counties and all Utahns.