 He is a member of the Big Hole River Foundation and the George Grant chapter of Montana Trout Unlimited.As President of the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited, the group received more than $1 million in funding for a restoration & land acquisition project on German Gulch, a trout fishery near Butte.He was a charter member and governor's appointee to Montana's Upper Clark Fork River Basin Remediation and Restoration Advisory Council from 1998–2002.