Meet the Board

JAN CUPERNALL, Chair

Jan and her husband, Steve, moved back to Harney County in 2001. She is an active volunteer for the Harney County Chamber of Commerce, The Harney County Historical Society, Sunrise Garden Club, the Burns Cemetery Committee, and now with the MWA.

GARY IVEY, Vice-Chair

For more than 20 years Gary worked with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the National Wildlife Refuge System. He worked primarily on wetland, waterfowl and waterbird management and planning in Eastern Oregon and in California's Central Valley. Gary served as a wildlife biologist at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for 15 years and is currently working on a variety of bird conservation issues in the West and attending graduate school at Oregon State University.

BILL RENWICK, Treasurer

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ALICE ELSHOFF, Secretary

Alice has been visiting Malheur Refuge since the 1960s, first birding and then volunteering. She is a retired teacher who enjoys sharing her love of wildlife with visitors of all ages. She believes deeply in the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System, which sets wildlife conservation as its primary purpose and preservation and restoration of biological diversity and environmental health as its main goal.

CAREY GOSS, Refuge Liaison

Carey graduated from Humboldt State University with a bachelor's degree in wildlife. She has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for more than eight years, including assignments at four different refuges before finding herself at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 1999. Carey's background includes an array of experiences with biological surveys, fish and wildlife management, and conservation. Her primary objectives in working at the refuge and with the Malheur Wildlife Associates is to educate the public and practice the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System.