 Bond was a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Montana in 1982, and served in Al Gore's 2000 Presidential campaign as head of Colorado Business Leaders for Gore and as a spokesman in several western states (Colorado, Utah, and Oregon) for Gore environmental positions.He has been a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Montana, was project manager of several Wild and Scenic River and National Wildlife Refuge master plans; worked to protect the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine; helped create Montana's Lee Metcalf Wilderness and California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area; fought elephant poaching in Africa; managed the NASA/AIA project to design part of the orbiting space station; and helped write the Colorado Wolf Management Plan.A former anchor for the PBS new program European Journal, he was also Paris energy correspondent for the Financial Times.