Our
Board
Meet The Board
Liz Townley
Interim Board President
Liz Townley lives in Carmen, Idaho with her family and an assortment of farm animals. She started her career in non-profit work focused on river advocacy and then moved over to a career in federal land management serving in roles primarily in rivers, wilderness management, and outdoor recreation. Liz currently works remotely for the National Wilderness and Wild & Scenic Rivers program for the U.S. Forest Service. She is a champion for sustainable and equitable access, as well as transparency and communication in planning so that all Americans have a say over how their public lands and waters are managed.
Kristin Greiner
Board Secretary
Kristin grew up in the Pacific Northwest spending most of her time outdoors with her family. Her love for the outdoors and conservation only grew after she left home and became a river guide and camp cook. Guiding around the world, she kept finding herself back in Salmon playing on the river or skiing at LT. In 2016, she decided this was the place she wanted to put her roots down. Now Kristin and her husband have a beautiful daughter and son who they can't wait to share all that the public lands and Lemhi County have to offer.
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Amy Kramer
Director
Amy has spent over a decade conducting ecological fieldwork across the West. While earning her Master’s in Natural Resources from the University of Idaho, she spent summers in the Frank Church Wilderness studying native plant communities along elevation gradients—fascinated by how plants change and adapt to such rugged terrain. Now living in Salmon with her family, she has recently started a native plant nursery, dedicated to enhancing biodiversity and fostering a strong connection between people and the land. Whether trail running, rock climbing, or simply unwinding on the back porch, she draws endless inspiration from the surrounding wild terrain. Amy believes deeply in the mission of Salmon Valley Stewardship and is excited to serve on the board, supporting sustainable economies and thriving working lands in the Salmon Valley region.
Jesse Lutz
Director
Jesse Lutz lives in Salmon and enjoys creating culinary delights and the expanse of diversity in public lands within Lemhi Valley (especially the Wilderness) with his partner and their dog - Hatch. He joined the board of SVS in the spring of 2023 and looks forward to learning from their experience. When not galivanting outside you can find him at Salmon’s bike and surf shop ‘The Hub’ working on his newly found focus of tuning up bikes of all different shapes and sizes.
Mike Hart
Director
Mike Hart was born in Kansas and discovered seasonal outdoor work while earning a degree in Geology. He spent summers backpacking, climbing, working as a raft guide, ski bum, and river ranger in the mountains of Colorado and Utah where he met his wife, Cary. He began his professional career in Idaho where he focused on environmental communication related to cleanup projects. While raising two kids in Idaho Falls, he built a science communication company and finished a Masters Degree in Environmental Science Policy and Law.
When the nest emptied, the Hart family made a radical change and moved to Salmon in 2017 where Mike could fly backcountry and cargo as a line pilot and check airman for Gem Air. He now flies an air ambulance jet based in Montana. Mike and Cary chose Salmon to live closer to the land, continuing to raise most of their own food and enjoy the proximity to quiet, open and wild places and the ancestral lands of the Agai-Dika and Tuka-Dika. Outdoor recreation, sustainability, food, social equity and rural economic vitality are all guiding values for the Harts.
Sophie Townley
Youth Board Director
Sophie Townley is a student at Salmon Middle School where she is an excellent student and plays on the school’s volleyball and basketball teams. She is the first youth board member for SVS and hopes to generate interest from other youth in the mission and activities of SVS. Sophie loves to read, care for her alpacas, raft, swim, hike, and spend time outside with her family. She is passionate about feminism and equality and thinks people should practice more kindness.
Chuck Mark
Director
Chuck was born just outside Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the Midwest. Even though
he was raised in an urban setting, he spent many summers in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan camping, hiking, swimming, fishing, and riding motorcycles. After graduating
from high school Chuck headed west to the University of Montana where he obtained a
B.S. degree at the School of Forestry. He worked as a seasonal employee for the U.S.
Forest Service for 9 years before joining the agency as a permanent employee in 1989.
Chuck’s career spanned 39 years in the Forest Service in a variety of positions on Forests in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. He has a deep resource background in silviculture, fire, and wilderness management. Chuck spent the last half of his career as a line officer serving as a District Ranger, Deputy Forest Supervisor, and finally Forest
Supervisor on the Salmon-Challis National Forest. He has always believed that National Forest management was all about working with people in local communities through the development of strong and lasting relationships. Chuck truly believes that natural resource stewardship is critical to the vitality and sustainability of the
communities that we live and play in.
Chuck lives in Salmon with his wife Pam. He has two daughters, Sienna lives in Boston, Massachusetts where she is working on her PhD at Northeastern University,
and Peyton is a cosmetologist who lives and works in Twin Falls, Idaho.