Diana L Six, Ph.D., FRES

Diana Six is professor emeritus at the University of Montana in the USA, an extraordinary professor of ecology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, and a Mercator Research Fellow (forest biodiversity) in Germany.  She has an AS degree in Microbiology from Chaffey College, a BS in Agricultural Biology (Integrated Pest Management) from California Polytechnic, an MS and PHD in Entomology with a minor emphasis on Mycology from the University of California, Riverside, and post doc’d in Chemical Ecology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published roughly 100 papers. Her research focuses widely on bark beetle and forest ecology, climate change, and forest adaptation. Diana is also an artist expressing her concern for forests through collage, textiles, and oils. She has been camping in the woods since she was a baby and has no plans to ever quit.

Carter Walker, Board Secretary

Carter Walker has lived in Montana since 1992 and has served on The Montana Project board since the organization's founding in 2022. She is a writer and editor, and the author of several Moon guides to Montana and Wyoming. Carter has served on various boards in the Gallatin Valley including Friends of the Belgrade Pool, Opera Montana (formerly Intermountain Opera Bozeman), and Montana Center for the Arts, and brings her communication, publication, and planning skills to the table. She and her partner split time between the Yaak and the Horseshoe Hills with their four daughters and passel of animals.

Jim Chapman, Board Treasurer

Matt Holloway, Board President

Matt Holloway loves art and wild places, and he believes in the power of both. Matt has worked as a backcountry ranger in Glacier National Park, a high school English teacher, as well as tutoring and mentoring adolescents. The Bob, Glacier Park, the Whitefish Range, and Yaak are the places he knows and loves best. He is the fiction editor at Whitefish Review, as well as founder and board member of Whitefish Skatepark Association and the Badrock Skatepark Association. Matt lives with his family in Columbia Falls.