About

The Park County Environmental Council (PCEC) has been active since 1990 as the only countywide non-profit grassroots environmental group focusing exclusively on issues affecting Park County, Montana, located at Yellowstone National Park’s northern edge.

With over 400 members, the Council works through advocacy and education to preserve and restore the county’s world-class rivers, diverse wildlife, landscapes, and outstanding natural beauty. To achieve this, PCEC champions land-use planning, river management reform, and protection of roadless areas.

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PCEC Board of Directors

Janet Barwick, Secretary: has served as a research associate for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for the past nine years, working on grizzly education and outreach and various film projects related to grizzlies and whitebark pine. Janet is a fourth generation Montanan who was raised in the shadow of the Berkeley Pit mine in …

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Executive Director

Kerry J. Fee became PCEC’s executive director in June 2010. Kerry is from Prescott, Arizona — the third generation of his family to live in that rural community — where he was a general remodeling contractor for 20 years. Kerry and his wife Sharon moved to Montana in 2004 after Sharon received her PhD in …

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Vision for PCEC

Mountain ranges, and Yellowstone National Park, is an ecological keystone of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and provides vital connectivity within the Yellowstone-to-Yukon region… …We envision a day when: The landscape of Park County has open vistas, intact wildlife winter and summer ranges, a free flowing and restored Yellowstone River, and housing and other human developments …

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History and Accomplishments

Initially formed by a small group of local environmentalists concerned about resource extraction on public lands, PCEC has since become increasingly involved in issues related to the Yellowstone River and adjacent private lands. Our group’s early victories include: • helping to draft and secure approval of the Park County Comprehensive Plan that was designed to …

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