Land is a ffth-generation Montanan who developed his conservation ethic from a young age in duck blinds on warm water sloughs in the Bitterroot Valley, at the end of a fy rod during the salmon fy hatch on the Big Hole River, and chasing the wily wapiti in Cinnabar Basin. He received a B.S. in wildlife biology from the University of Montana in 2000 and a PhD in post hole digging while fencing in the family quarter horses and mules. Since graduating college Land has worked to perpetuate the conservation heritage gifted to us, frst with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, then with the National Wildlife Federation and now as CEO at Backcountry Hunters & Anglers.