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Meet Your New Wsf Board Members

Elected in the fall 2022 board elections, new directors Jann Demaske of Colorado and Logan Young of Colorado and Yukon Territory begin their three-year terms May 1, 2023.

support. Logan has also worked in the auctions for over a decade and is a very proud voice and ambassador for raising money to help Put and Keep Sheep on the Mountain®.We all know in our hunting community that hunting, guide outfitting, and conservation efforts go hand-in-hand. Without one, you will not have the other. With everything in the culture of the current world, the time to act is now and Logan is proud to be a director to represent outfitters, Canadians, and all hunters for the betterment of wild sheep! WS

Logan was born and raised in the Northern Rockies and went on his first sheep hunt at the young age of six years old. He won the North American Youth Hunter of the Year Award at age seven and has attended the Sheep Show® every year since he was born. He has been blessed to live a life engulfed with wild sheep and is a passionate conservationist having spent every summer and fall of his life in the mountains. Logan has a degree in Agricultural Business with three minors in International, Applied and Agricultural Economics from the University of Wyoming. He is now the co-owner and operator of Midnight Sun Outfitting, located in the Peel River Watershed of the Northern Yukon.

The Young family’s hunting heritage runs deep and they are proud to have been an important part of donating the first four sheep hunts to start the <1 Club®, the first ever sheep hunt at the Ladies Luncheon, several sheep hunts to help start the Membership Drive, the Endowment Fund, and over 40 years of exhibiting and additional

My favorite hat is from 2016, embroidered on it is “WSF Conservationist.” That’s me!

Don’t get me wrong, I have a beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep to my credit, but the behind-the-scenes conservation really fuels my fire. I have been passionate about God’s creatures, all of us, since I was a kid. I was born in Wyoming into a hunting family and have lived in Colorado since 1978. I have a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Northern Colorado. Out of college I worked in occupational health for a large corporate brewery. A few months after getting married in 1993, while still having full time jobs, my husband and I started the first of several successful businesses in Northern Colorado. I worked on everything from apartment maintenance to bookkeeping to selling the homes we built. My focus shifted when the businesses got too big and our two girls needed my full attention. Now that they are grown, my days are filled with old school homemaking and what I refer to my friends and family as “sheep stuff”.

For the Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF), I chair the Ladies Luncheon and Artemis Award Committees; I’m chair of the One Campfire Initiative Committee; and I am a member of the Auction Solicitation, Development, and Marco Polo Society Committees. Further, I am a life member and a member of the Marco Polo Society. I was appointed to the WSF board in 2020 and served for two years and re-elected in the Fall of 2022 to serve a new three-year term.

Locally, I served six years on the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society (RMBS) board of directors, four of those as secretary and I continue as RMBS banquet chair. I am a life member of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society, Wild Sheep Society of BC, Rocky Mountain Goat Alliance, and the Texas Bighorn Society, as well as, Grand Slam Club Ovis and Dallas Safari Club. I am also an active member and volunteer for Timberline Windsor Church.WS