Chet Work

Chet has spent the last 20 years working in conservation, a majority of that time within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Before coming to GVLT Chet led three of the nation’s most successful land trusts, the Teton Regional Land Trust in Eastern Idaho, The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County in California and currently the Gallatin Valley land Trust in Bozeman, Montana. In addition to his land trust leadership experience, Chet has worked as a land manager for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho and has completed an environmental education residency at the Teton Science Schools in Jackson Hole. Chet holds a master’s degree in environmental management from Duke University, as well as certificates in nonprofit management and geospatial analysis.