Susan How

Susan arrived in the Flathead on New Year's Day in 1991, after a cross-country move from Cape Cod. Driving along the lake, it seemed perhaps she wasn't really leaving the ocean behind and was getting a mountain range to boot.

Through her years in the Flathead she has worked with numerous community organizations - Flathead County Extension director, Flathead Land Trust executive director, Glacier Institute board, Montana Conservation Voters state board, and independently as a meeting facilitator and grant writer. She lived for several years in Walla Walla, Washington and worked there for the Blue Mountain Land Trust as Membership & Outreach director.

She grew up on a Nebraska farm, earned a degree in home economics and journalism and worked in Minnesota as a feature reporter and later as an agricultural editor.

While living on the East Coast she earned a master's in biology emphasizing evolutionary ecology. 

In her view, Montana was the best possible place to bring her varied experiences together with some flyfishing, photography, and kayaking alongside.