Sally A. Ranney
Ms. Ranney is the CEO of StillWater Preservation LLC (SWP). She joined SWP in 2003, bringing
25 years experience in environmental policy and public/private
partnerships related to land use, water management,
sustainable development, eco-tourism and conservation.
Prior to private consulting, Ms. Ranney co-founded and served as President of American Wildlands (AWL) from the early 1980's to 1997. Assignments included
business development and strategic planning, government
relations, conservation easements and marine/terrestrial
reserve planning, sustainable development, investment
due diligence, and designing templates for large national
and international initiatives including the Earth Corps
($613 million youth program now incorporated into the
AmeriCorps National Service Plan), and Prime Legacy,
(an international conservation real estate network).
Representative clients
include Republic Financial Corporation (U.S.), Oceanographic
Explorations (Australia/Papua New Guinea), Adventure
Travel Society (U.S.), Gallmann Foundation (U.S.-Kenya),
Human Potential Television Network (U.S.), Fundacion
de Resources Natural (Argentina) and the Island Foundation
(U.S.).
Prior to private consulting,
Ms. Ranney co-founded and served as President of American
Wildlands from the early 1980’s to 1997. Her
responsibilities included all aspects of operations
including managing three offices, staff and project
consultants, developing and managing projects and programs,
research, and fundraising. She also lectured throughout
the country and often testified before Congress and
other public and governmental entities.
Representative programs
include Corridors of Life (GIS project that mapped
several million acres in the Northern Rockies); World
Congress on Eco-tourism - presently owned by Outside
Magazine); U.N. International Resource Restoration
(chaired 35-country discussion at the U.N’s Summit
on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janiero, Brazil);
American Wilderness Adventures (eco-tourism business
with 120 itineraries worldwide); Tatshenshini Coalition
(a 53 organization/41 million member international
strategic alliance that achieved agreements between
three governments to protect 2.3 million acres of wildlands);
Multi-stakeholder FERC Dialogue (redefined waterways,
changing procedures for hydro permitting); Alaska National
Interest Lands Conservation Act (9-year project, working
with President Carter and conservations which resulted
in successful legislation protecting 101 million acres
in parks, preserves, wilderness, river and conservation
areas).
Prior to her tenure
at AWL, Ms. Ranney was a Resource Policy Analyst for
The Wilderness Society. Her responsibilities included
developing formal responses/positions to Congressional
and administrative proposals involving public land/water
resource policies in the West. Representative legislative
involvements include Colorado Wild & Scenic Rivers
Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, endangered species,
and legislative conservation area and wilderness designations
throughout the conterminous U.S.
Awards and political appointments
include Presidential Commission on American Outdoors
(appointed by President Reagan); Horace Albright Award
(awarded by the U.S. National Park Service); New Mexico
Rio Grande Committee (appointed by former Congressman,
now Governor Bill Richardson); Harvard School of Government:
The New Environmental Agenda (appointed by former Senator
Tim Wirth); Colorado Tourism Board (appointed by Governor
of Colorado); Meritorious Conservation Award (awarded
by the International Wildlife Foundation).
Ms. Ranney was a founding
Board member of The Grand Canyon Trust, the Windstar
Foundation and Project Lighthawk. Active in conservation,
she currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The
Natural Step and the Gallmann Africa Conservancy.
Ms. Ranney received
a fellowship for post-graduate study at Yale University,
School of Environmental Studies and School of Organization
and Management. She holds a Masters Degree in Education
and a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Western State
College of Colorado.