Panelists

Liz Davy is the Program Director for the Greater Yellowstone Fire Action Network. She retired from a 40-year career with the U.S. Forest Service, where she served as a Silviculturist, Fuels Specialist, and District Ranger. Liz has led the development of wildfire working groups nationwide through the Community Mitigation Assistance Team (CMAT) and co-founded both the Island Park Sustainable Fire Community and the Greater Yellowstone Fire Action Network. She continues to advance collaborative, community-based approaches to wildfire resilience across the region.

As President of Guerry, Inc., Mike Guerry leads a family-owned ranching operation that raises sheep and cattle across the Jarbidge Resource Area of the Bureau of Land Management, the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, State of Idaho leases, and private lands. The ranch reflects more than 116 years of continuous family involvement in livestock production in the Castleford and Three Creek, Idaho region and now spans three generations.
Mike earned a B.A. in accounting from Boise State University in 1978 and also attended Carroll College and the University of Idaho. He returned to ranch operation full time in 1980 after working for Kafoury, Armstrong & Co., an accounting firm in Elko, Nevada.
Over the course of his career, Mike has held numerous leadership roles in agriculture and public service. Roles include Certified Public Accountant and football coach, along with key roles in agricultural organizations. Service includes Secretary and Treasurer of the National Public Lands Council, President of the Idaho Wool Growers Association, and Board Member of the Idaho Cattle Association. Additional leadership roles include President of the University of Idaho Agricultural Consulting/Dean’s Council and Chairman of the Idaho State Farm Service Agency Committee. Mike’s current service includes Chairman of the Three Creek Rangeland Fire Protection Association (RFPA) and Board Member of the Southern Idaho Livestock Hall of Fame.

With 14 years of experience in wildland fire operations, Mara Hlawatschek has worked across multiple agencies, including the Idaho Department of Lands, U.S. Forest Service, and Southern Idaho Timber Protective Association. She has extensive hands-on expertise in wildfire suppression, incident response, and working within fire-prone landscapes throughout Idaho.
Mara currently serves as a county Wildfire Mitigation Director where she focuses on advancing proactive approaches to wildfire management through prevention, preparedness, and community resilience. In this role, she is dedicated to educating and empowering residents to take an active role in reducing wildfire risk. She emphasizes that individual property decisions directly impact the safety of homes, neighborhoods, and surrounding landscapes, and believes that shared responsibility in the wildland-urban interface is key to building safer, more resilient communities.P

Tim lives near McCall in the west-central mountains of Idaho. He is a past Chairman and currently the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commissioner for Region 3. Tim has a B.S. in rangeland science and a minor in wildlife management from the University of Wyoming. He began his 39 year career with the Bridger-Teton National Forest followed by joining the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at the Green River Resource Area managing public rangelands in southwest Wyoming, followed by supervising a range, wild horse, and soils team at BLM’s Caliente Resource Area, Nevada. Tim went on to management positions with BLM in New Mexico at the Carlsbad and then Las Cruces Resource Areas followed by a District Manager assignment at Miles City, Montana. Throughout his assignments, Tim was active in wildland fire management and was called upon to inform national policy through the results of his leadership involving fatality and serious accident investigations. Tim went on to Boise, Idaho in the Senior Executive Service as the Director of Fire and Aviation at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) followed by becoming the BLM Idaho State Director.
Tim’s aim and approach to managing public lands focused on integrating rangeland and wildland fire management with resource needs and uses among the customs and cultures of local communities and the nation and building economic viability into the management of working landscapes.a

John Robison is the Public Lands and Wildlife Director for the Idaho Conservation League (ICL). John has been working on natural resource management issues for ICL for the last 24 years. His program work includes reviewing NEPA projects on U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management administered lands.

John has had a leadership role in several collaborative efforts, including the Owyhee Initiative, Payette Forest Coalition, Boise Forest Coalition, and Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership. John also represented community interests for U.S. Forest Service trainings with the National Collaboration Cadre in 2019. John also serves on the Governor’s Idaho Roadless Rule Commission, as well as Idaho’s Shared Stewardship Advisory Council. John earned a B.A. in biology from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. John started his graduate studies at the Teton Science School’s Professional Residency in Environmental Education and completed his master’s degree in botany from the University of Vermont’s Field Naturalist Program.n

Dani Southard is Idaho Power’s Wildfire Mitigation Program Leader, where she oversees the development, execution, and continuous improvement of the company’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan and directs long‑term wildfire risk‑reduction strategy. She also serves as Co‑Chair of the Southwest Idaho All-Lands Partnership, a regional coalition of land management agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and community members collaborating to align funding and expertise to plan and implement landscape‑scale wildfire mitigation projects across both private and public lands.
Dani holds a M.S. in environmental science and business from Oregon State University and a B.S. in natural resource management from Colorado State University. Throughout her career, she has led complex, multi‑stakeholder projects focused on wildfire preparedness, ecosystem restoration, renewable energy permitting, and community engagement across the western U.S.

Dr. Katie Wollstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences at Oregon State University and Rangeland Fire Specialist with the Extension Fire Program. Based at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in Burns, Oregon, her research and extension focus on integrated range and fire management, strategic fire planning on large landscapes, and institutional arrangements for community fire adaptation in rangeland contexts.