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2008-2010 Wyss Scholars

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Nick Deyo
Landscape Architecture

The Intermountain West has always held fascination for Nick.  As a child growing up near Flint, Michigan, his parents told him stories of a magical summer they spent in Montana, about their adventures climbing mountaintops and swimming in pristine rivers. 

 

Nick headed west directly after high school to earn a degree in ecology from the University of Montana in Missoula.  When not studying, he was out exploring the vast wilderness areas, forest service lands, and national parks that were at my doorstep.  There, he cultivated a strong commitment to conservation that has taken him as far afield as Samoa, the Caribbean, and Costa Rica.  But, Nick has always come back to the Rockies. 

 

Nick's work in the West has included research on fire ecology at the Forest Service’s Fire Sciences Laboratory and developing curricula for conservation courses taught in Yellowstone National Park. He is honored to be a Wyss Scholar for the Conservation of the American West — to be part of a community working to preserve and restore the largest and most pristine ecosystems remaining in the lower 48 states.   

 

Clayton Elliott
Environmental Policy and Planning

Clayton, a fourth generation Wyomingite, grew up on the eastern rim of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and spent his youth exploring, riding, and fishing some of the last wild places in our country.  He attended his state’s only university, the University of Wyoming, receiving degrees in Economics and Environment and Natural Resources in 2008.


While at the University of Michigan, Clayton is focusing his study on public land policy and natural resource conflict in the Intermountain West.  His master’s thesis explores the intersection of collaboration, federal agency planning processes, and oil and gas leasing on the West’s public lands.


After graduation, Clayton looks forward to returning to the big sky, open spaces, and rural communities of Wyoming.  He anticipates working for an advocacy organization, mobilizing communities and people in the protection of working landscapes.  Eventually, he hopes to start his own non-profit addressing the challenges of balancing Wyoming’s unique cultural and natural heritage with contemporary pressures, solving problems in creative and durable ways.

 

 

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