MTWSF conservation committee

Advancing Bighorn Sheep Restoration

Advancing Bighorn Sheep Restoration

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Committee Regions

The MTWSF Conversation Committee is organized into seven committee members who are each responsible for one of the seven FWP administrative regions. Click a link below to see details for each region.

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Meet Your Conservation Committee

region 1

Bennie Rossetto

Kalispell, MT

Bennie practiced medicine in northwest Montana from 1977–2016 and served in multiple leadership roles at Kalispell Regional Medical Center. Bennie has hunted extensively across North America, including nine wild sheep hunts, with two Boone and Crockett listings and a Silver Medal Dall sheep. Bennie’s goal as a conservation committee member is to grow healthy bighorn populations through disease prevention, habitat improvement, reduced transportation mortality, responsible predator management, and collaborative, science-based partnerships with agencies, tribes, landowners, and producers.

region 2

Shane Clouse

Stevensville, MT

Shane Clouse is past president of Montana Wild Sheep Foundation, as well as an entrepreneur operating multiple businesses. Shane is a singer songwriter with six albums to his credit. He’s also an actor having played the lead role in Eye for Eye, a Prime video movie and he is currently filming for the gritty western, Mr. Pettigrew. His song Montana Matters is the theme song of the conservation program of the same name. Along with arts and entrepreneurship Shane is a passionate hunter and conservationist. Shane and his wife Kelly live on a small farm in Stevensville, MT where they raise Scottish highland cattle, hay crops, and operate a commercial apple orchard for cider. Life is full.

region 3

Jack Atcheson Jr

butte, MT

Jack Atcheson Jr is president of Jack Atcheson and Sons (1955), an International Hunting Consultant firm located in Butte, Montana. Jack was a wilderness area outfitter in Montana hunting rams, billys, bucks, boars and bulls from 1974 to 2000. Jack joined the National Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) as a director in 2004, then WSF Chairman of the Board 2011—2013. WSF Conservation Committee chairman 2013 to present. Jacks first big game animal was a Black Bear. Hunting all sorts of predators and other large and small game has continued on six continents and is ongoing! Jack and his wife Cindy and a Lab named Pal lived near the continental divide outside Butte.

region 4

Gary Olson

conrad, MT

Gary’s FWP career was based out of Conrad as an area biologist from 1977-2011. Gary surveyed HD 441 bighorn sheep area for over 30 years and helped with several tagging, transplanting and monitoring efforts from Wildhorse Island, the Sun River, the Blackleaf WMA and in the Anaconda area.

region 5

Bryan Duffy

billings, MT

I am a Fifth generation Montanan, born in Butte Montana in 1978. Raised in Billings Montana since 1988. Went to school and graduated at Skyview highschool. I started my masonry construction career after high school and have run my own business in that field since 2005. I am blessed in life with a wonderful wife of 21 years and one amazing son. I enjoy hunting and backpack trips in the Beartooth Wilderness with friends and family. I am also a very passionate big game hunter and enjoy volunteering my time to help bighorn sheep in Montana.

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