2011 Board of
Directors Election
Meet the
Candidates!WWF bylaws require a
vote by the membership to select the Board of
Directors, even in an uncontested election.
This year, there are a total of six vacancies
on the Board of Directors. Candidates for these
six vacancies are listed below, with
photographs and short biographies for each.
Richard Oblak
Rich has lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming for the last 23 years. He recently retired from the United States Air Force after 24 years of active duty service. Rich has two boys - Kevin, 20 and Brian, 17 along with a stepdaughter, MacKenzie, 8. Rich's interest for the outdoors began with fishing trips with his father and grandfather on the banks of Lake Michigan in Illinois and has become an avid big game and waterfowl hunter since his arrival in Wyoming in 1986. He now enjoys trips to the field with his sons, stepdaughter, and wife, Betsy.
Keith Gingery
Keith is a long-time resident of Jackson, Wyoming. He graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science in 1992 and a Juris Doctor from the UW College of Law in 1995. He is finishing up his 3rd term in the Wyoming House of Representatives. He presently serves as the House Judiciary Chairman. He has been co-chairman of the Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse and also co-chaired the Wyoming Drug Court Steering Committee. He has served on the Corporations Committee and the Travel, Recreation, and Wildlife Committee. Keith is a deputy county and prosecuting attorney in Teton County and lives south of Jackson with his wife, Lisa, and 4 year old daughter, Alexandra, where they enjoy fishing, hiking, biking, and paddle sports. Both his father and grandfather worked for the National Park Service.
Richard Oblak
Rich has lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming for the last 23 years. He recently retired from the United States Air Force after 24 years of active duty service. Rich has two boys - Kevin, 20 and Brian, 17 along with a stepdaughter, MacKenzie, 8. Rich's interest for the outdoors began with fishing trips with his father and grandfather on the banks of Lake Michigan in Illinois and has become an avid big game and waterfowl hunter since his arrival in Wyoming in 1986. He now enjoys trips to the field with his sons, stepdaughter, and wife, Betsy.
Keith Gingery
Keith is a long-time resident of Jackson, Wyoming. He graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science in 1992 and a Juris Doctor from the UW College of Law in 1995. He is finishing up his 3rd term in the Wyoming House of Representatives. He presently serves as the House Judiciary Chairman. He has been co-chairman of the Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse and also co-chaired the Wyoming Drug Court Steering Committee. He has served on the Corporations Committee and the Travel, Recreation, and Wildlife Committee. Keith is a deputy county and prosecuting attorney in Teton County and lives south of Jackson with his wife, Lisa, and 4 year old daughter, Alexandra, where they enjoy fishing, hiking, biking, and paddle sports. Both his father and grandfather worked for the National Park Service.
Harold lives in Riverton, Wyoming with his wife, Veronika. They have a grown daughter, Erika, living in Seattle. Harold is a long-time board member, coming onto the board in the late 1980's. He came to Wyoming in 1960 at the age of twelve. Already by then a confirmed hunting and fishing "nut", he felt that Wyoming was as close to heaven as one was going to get in this life. Later, he decided that if wildlife and wild places were to be preserved, someone had to fight for them. WWF, with its positions and values was the organization that came closest to his own values and beliefs. He has been with them ever since.
Armond Acri
Armond Acri is a retired chemical engineer who worked on construction projects all over North America. His work led him to Green River, Wyoming in 1990. His travels made him appreciate the wildlife that Wyoming has to offer. he semi-retired in 2007 to pursue a passion for protecting and improving wildlife habitat. To indulge that passion, he served a previous stint on the Board of WWF, helped to remove barbed wire fence, helps with sage grouse lek surveys and serves as the chair of the Upper Snake River Basin Sage Grouse Local Working Group. He has made two trips to Washington D.C. to lobby for wildlife in Wyoming. Armond now works part time for a non-profit involved in land use issues in Teton County. He lives in Jackson with his two Labradors, Luc and Hammer. When he is not hunting waterfowl, he is thinking about hunting waterfowl while training the dogs, skiing, fishing and exploring the backcountry of Wyoming. He tries to spend enough time hunting big game to fill the freezer and get a few bones for the dogs.
Kevin Gosar
Kevin lives in Laramie, Wyoming and works as a pilot for the Wyoming Department of Transportation. Kevin is an outdoor enthusiast and is an avid backpacker, bow hunter and fly fisherman. He understands the critical connection between habitat protection and sustainable wild game populations in Wyoming, and he has worked on habitat enhancement and rehabilitation in the area around his home town of Pinedale. He is a co-owner of Wildland Rehab, LLC, a habitat restoration company, which works to mitigate river bank erosion and improve stream habitat. Kevin and his wife, Jenee, are expecting their first child in June.
Casey Dean
Casey Dean, of Pinedale, is the editor of the Pinedale Roundup. She has spent all but four of her 24 years in Sublette County and has developed a strong connection with the wilds of Wyoming. As a hunter, she favors fowl, and as a fisher she favors napping while her worm soaks; she'll take every minute of summer she can get to swim in Fremont Lake or hit the trail at a run in training for triathlons. While away from Pinedale, Casey earned a B.A. in English and Policy Journalism/Media Studies at Duke University. In her capacity with the Roundup for the past two years, she has actively followed the issues facing Pinedale, a community at once planted in pristine and untouched habitat and caught up in natural gas development. Casey has developed an appreciation for the importance and the challenges of protecting Wyoming's legacy while balancing development and looks forward to being a part of that process.
**Election ballots have been mailed to associate members. Please return your ballot to Wyoming Wildlife Federation; PO Box 106; Cheyenne, WY 82003 by May 5, 2011.