• Betty Anderson
• Kathryn Bosworth
• James Fairlee
• Nancy Frank
• David F. Johnson
• Gretchen O’Bleness
• Gayle Peters
• Page Phillips
• Linda Pound
• Lisa Schultz
• David Sealander
• Ann Shively
• Jerry Shively
• Kim Tweedy
• Martha M. Tweedy

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan can remember most of the Girl Scout songs she led as a camp counselor and later sang while playing her guitar. Jan’s first full-time job was serving as the Girl Scout field advisor in Idaho Falls from 1977-79, when she was responsible for supporting troops across a 10-county region.

• Christine Hatch
• Carla Kelly
• Cindy Logan
• Linda Milam
• Marsha Nipper
• Merrie C. Ott
• Patti Sherlock
• Pat Stanger
• Effie Wildman

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan loves to read nonfiction and has belonged to multiple book clubs. Jan worked part time at the Marketplace Bookstore downtown in the late 1970s, and in 2016, she helped incorporate “This House of Books” bookstore cooperative in Billings, Montana.

• Connie Dobbins
• Jim Dobbins
• Nancy Batchelder Kalakay
• Melanie Edwards
• Ellie Gilbreath
• Mark Kalakay
• Barbara Larimer
• John Long
• John Ochi
• Larissa Sowers

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan chaired the board of the Idaho Conservation League in the early 1980s and in 1984 was a founding member of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Jan was recognized by the Idaho Wildlife Federation with the “Outstanding Woman in Conservation” award in 1995.

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• Robert Baker
• Paula Blair
• Patricia Desautel
• Jean Brent Dilworth
• Kathey Fischer
• Annette Fonnesbeck
• Shirley Koester
• Karen Lansing
• Diane Roberts
• Vince Rosas
• Carol Vogt
• Cheryl Zimmer

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Early in 2023, Jan adopted from the Snake River Animal Shelter a gray kitten named “Grayson” and a young Idaho Shag she later named “Bonnie”. Since then, her Jennie Lee neighborhood has come to adore her friendly dog who loves children but really hates squirrels.

• James E. Anderson
• Walter Boyd
• Maureen Finnerty
• Jan Hagers
• Steve Herring
• Jerry Narus
• Teresa Perkins
• Bill Shaw
• Jagoda Urban-Klaehn

DID YOU KNOW THAT… From 1979-82, Jan worked with many nuclear engineers as a program specialist in the National Low-Level Waste Management Program based at INL. Jan later served as Idaho Governor John V. Evans’ natural resource and radioactive waste policy advisor at the end of his second term (1985-86).

• Brett Bowhan
• Julie Dahlgren
• Jim Liljenquist
• Kim Martin
• Mary Maurer Martin
• Ray Ritari

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Despite being a novice angler, Jan served as the first executive director of the Henry’s Fork Foundation from 1991-2000. To implement the Henry’s Fork Basin Plan, Jan lobbied the Idaho Legislature to add more than 200 miles of state-designated natural and recreational rivers across the watershed.

• Dave Bosworth
• Bob Creed
• Debbie Orme
• Jonnie Pace
• Tim Reinke
• Mike Stevens

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan is NOT a golfer, but she has much in common with pro-golfer Phil Mickelson. They both use “Enbrel”, the very expensive, biologic drug that since 1998 has allowed many with rheumatoid arthritis to lead near-normal, pain-free lives with limited hand and feet deformities.

• George Chandler
• Keith Daum
• Glenn DeVoe
• Ken Hutson
• Kathy McBride
• Nathan Millword
• Terri Pickens
• Kevin Wetzel

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan is NOT a hunter, but she has dedicated her adult life to protecting wildlife habitat across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Jan understands the need for state and federal agencies to manage game populations through regulated hunting and to harvest protected species when justified.

• Greg Alvord
• Deborah Colson
• Pamela W. Mayes
• Stephanie Orme
• Kim Schultz Remien
• Pegge McGuire Steele
• Myra Takata

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Like many who love the outdoors, Jan is an introvert who relishes her alone time in the woods. Her Myers-Briggs classification is INTJ, with a strong emphasis on introversion. As her career required, Jan has learned to enjoy public speaking and meaningful social engagements.

• Jana Jones
• Janice (Jan) Karinen
• Janna Long
• Jan Neish
• Janet Taylor

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Very few people are naming their girls, “Jan, Jane, Janet, or Janice” nowadays, but the name was popular in the 1950s. The name “Jan” also works for boys, especially in Europe. According to AI, the name “Janice” comes from the Hebrew name Yochanan, which means “God is gracious”.

• Christina Barber
• Basil Barna
• Susie Barna
• Kathryn Welsh DeVries
• Todd DeVries
• Dino Lowrey
• Jeff Walline

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan loves to canoe on flat water and row on calm lakes as opposed to running rapids. In college, she rowed on the women’s crew team and took silver in the women’s pair at the 1975 Nationals at Princeton. Jan was inducted into the Oregon State University Hall of Fame in 2023.

• Hollis Henry
• Matthew Murphy
• Ruth M. Oar
• Nicole Stoddard
• Cher Stone

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan was raised by parents who loved to garden and a mother who excelled at canning apricots. Jan is delighted that her own apricot tree yields abundant fruit in years without a late frost. Jan’s favorite vegetables to grow (and eat) are corn, squash, chard, peppers and broccoli.

• Dan Bonney
• Lisa Colonna
• John Jockusch

DID YOU KNOW THAT… As a Friends of Harriman board member, Jan led the planning effort to address erosive trail conditions in Harriman State Park and on adjacent National Forest. Once approved, the new plan will protect wildlife habitat while improving summer trails for hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers.

• Clayton Jensen
• Marty Rotz-Kilhefner
• James Scheel

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan believes in our public health system and trusts trained physicians who recommend vaccines. Her mother was a school nurse, and her sister is a nurse practitioner. Jan herself was a certified EMT on the first Quick Response Unit in Island Park, volunteering through much of the 1980s.

• Basil Barna
• Linda Carter Beck
• Brett Bowhan
• Molly and Tom Brinkerhoff
• Lisa J. Burke
• Kathryn Welsh DeVries
• Patricia Desautel
• Dane Dunker
• Karen Lansing
• Cindy Logan
• Gretchen O’Bleness
• Mike O’Bleness
• Steve Peters
• Claudia Pine
• Don Pound
• Linda Pound
• Diane Roberts
• Marty Rotz-Kilhefner
• Cher Stone
• Myra Takata
• Joel Walton
• Kamber Weninger

DID YOU KNOW THAT… No matter one’s view on abortion, Jan believes we all should be registered organ donors to truly be “pro-life”. According to organdonor.gov, only three in one thousand people die in a way that allows for organ donation after death. That’s why every registered donor matters, and Jan is one of them.

• Alazandre Jensen
• Sara Jensen
• Steve Peters

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Well-before the arrival of digital cameras, Jan recalls owning a Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera that used drop-in 110 film cartridges. She used this slim camera while in college to document her memorable 1975 summer internship at Our Chalet, a Girl Scout World Center in Switzerland.

• Peggy Allison
• Elizabeth Bowhan
• Sandra Brow
• Charlotte Goddin
• Kim Jockusch
• Karen Narus
• Kathleen Smolik
• Kathleen “Kit” Struthers

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan so enjoyed cooking and sewing as a youth that she started college as a Home Economics major. Only two months in, she switched to the School of Forestry to train as a park naturalist and environmental educator. Jan still sews occasionally on her vintage Viking machine (with cams).

• Libby Hutson
• Kimberly Stanger Kvamme
• Claudia Pine

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jan has always been drawn to rural people and landscapes as opposed to large cities. It explains Jan’s commitment to manage water resources in collaboration with farmers and ranchers through the Henrys Fork Watershed Council, a non-adversarial forum she helped form and facilitate in the 1990s.

• Cindy Breckenridge
• Lala Chambers
• Roger Mayes
• Rick Spielman
• Chris Staley
• Chris White

DID YOU KNOW THAT… From 2000-03, Jan served as an advisory scientist in the Ecological and Cultural Resources Department at INL. Her most significant professional honor came in the year 2000 from The Idaho Statesman, being named as one of Idaho’s “Ten Catalysts for Change in the 21st Century.”

• Linda Baugher
• Debra Bruhn
• Ruth Byron
• Jim Francis
• Emily Kvamme
• Jill Schurman
• Joel Walton

DID YOU KNOW THAT …Jan’s first job in Idaho Falls was 50 years ago teaching “Discovery School”, a special preschool at the Intermountain Science Experience Center (InterSEC). The building now is part of University Place. Later, in 1991, the U.S. Forest Service honored Jan with its Environmental Education Leadership Award