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Welcome to the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute's website!   Celebrating seventeen years of 'connecting people, place and community'.
Our main program areas include Watershed Restoration, Environmental Education, Transportation, Community Food Systems, and Energy.  Check them out!
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Consider Joining PCEI's Board
If you think you would like to work with this great bunch of folks, then consider joining the PCEI Board of Directors. You can download the PCEI Board job description and the application form. Fill out the form and mail it to PCEI, PO Box 8596, Moscow ID 83843.

PCEI Board Job Description (pdf 188k)
PCEI Board Nomination Application Form.pdf (pdf 88k)

The Board makes nominations from submitted applications, and the PCEI membership votes on the candidates at our Annual Membership Meeting.


John Lawrence, President
John is a professor of Business at the University of Idaho, where he teaches courses in operations management, international business, and strategic management. He is also a member of the core faculty of two interdisciplinary programs at the UI, the Environmental Science program and the American Indian Studies program. Since joining the faculty of the University of Idaho in 1993, John has also taught courses as a visiting professor at universities in Sweden, Spain, Italy, France and New Zealand. John was a member of the team that developed the Sustainable Idaho initiative at the UI, and in early 2007 facilitated a workshop for faculty on integrating sustainability into the curriculum. John has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Palouse Ice Rink Association and was a member of the Moscow Arts Commission. In his spare time, he likes to hike, backpack, bike, canoe and ski with his wife Wendy, his daughter Karen, and his dog, Scout.
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Carrie Lee, Vice President
Carrie has spent over 30 years on the Palouse with the exception of a short stint in Seattle. Life in the big city made her appreciate the Moscow area and she feels fortunate to have the opportunity to give back to the community that she loves. Carrie Works at TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc. in Moscow. Carrie enjoys hiking Moscow Mountain with her dogs, Ruger and Jeb.

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Mary Jo Knowles, Treasurer
Mary Jo is one of the founding board members of PCEI. She was the General Manager of the Moscow Food Co-op from 1986 to 1991. In 2005 she ran the loan program for the Co-op's move to its new location. She is also a rental property owner in Moscow and a ski instructor at Schweitzer.
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Steve Shook, Secretary
A native of Indiana, Steve is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Idaho. His research focuses on market mechanisms related to the efficient utilization of natural resources, especially residential building materials. He has taught the capstone course in the College of Natural Resources several times, and is a faculty advisor in the Ecology and Conservation Biology degree program. Steve lives on Moscow Mountain with his wife Mary (a former PCEI board member) and their three children – Grace, James, and Jennings. He enjoys hiking, mountain biking, snowshoeing, and he’s a genealogy and history junkie.
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Allyson Beall, Board Member
Allyson Beall’s expertise includes the use of system dynamics as an environmental problem solving methodology. Her work supports the use of collaboratively built simulation models to improve environmental decision making processes and has included projects concerned with endangered species management, watershed management and aquifer management. In addition, she is interested in using these models for improving the accessibility of scientific information to the public who may be affected by policy decisions based on that information.

Her work as a participatory modeler with University of Idaho Waters of the West is currently focused on the Palouse Basin Participatory Model Pilot Project. Her role as lead facilitator and modeler is helping members of the local aquifer committee and citizens advisory group understand the potential for participatory modeling as a venue for creating a decision support tool to assist with aquifer management.
Her work at Washington State University in environmental science education includes an introductory environmental science class and a NEPA environmental assessment class both of which she teaches from the systems perspective.

She has a Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Science, an MS in Environmental Science and a BS in General Biology from WSU.
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Emmi Blades, Board Member
Emmi is currently pursuing a law degree from the University of Idaho College of Law. After receiving a MS in Environmental Science, she spent a good portion of the last year dedicating 20 hours per week as an AmeriCorps Member with PCEI's Watersheds Program. She also coaches for Moscow United Soccer Club. In her spare time, Emmi enjoys all activities that get her outdoors including backpacking and skiing and hanging out with her husband Scott and her two dogs Rhode and Lewis.
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Richard Huggins, Board Member
Richard was planner on 22 park & recreation projects from Alaska to Wyoming, 15 to 15,000 acres. And was the director of planning and program development for a multi-county, rural non profit growing from 3 to 33 grants for transportation, arts & recreation, housing, seniors, economic development, energy, VISTA, etc. His recent emphasis is Emergency Management in a rural Oregon county, Stanford University programs, and Bay Area businesses. He's served on many local, state, & regional boards/committees for energy, food co-op, hazardous materials, League of Women Voters, solid waste, disaster, and search & rescue. Richard's great-grand parents homesteaded north of Colton in the 1880's. He lives in Pullman and enjoys sailing, hiking, and camping.

Ryan Law, Board Member
“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all” - Helen Keller
I am a native upstate New Yorker. Having grown up surrounded by the hardwood forests and rivers of the Adirondack area, exploring the natural world was easy. The sense of fulfillment and wonder I found from being outside and away from suburbia eventually lead me to Idaho. I spent several summers rock climbing and kayaking Idaho’s grandeur. A few years later, after graduating from Syracuse University I moved to Alaska, taught school there, married my high school sweetheart and returned to Idaho. I later pursued a MS in physiology in 1997 and completed an MFA in Art in 2005.

We have lived north of Moscow in an old farmstead for twenty-two years and raised three precious children. My husband is a professor in Electrical Engineering. I teach swimming and yoga at the University of Idaho. I am currently a board member of Palouse Studio Potters. I serve as a promotion and fundraiser member. I have been a member of Moscow’s Volunteer EMT Department for five years. I am a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and spend most of my summers caring for sick, orphaned and injured wildlife. My concern for our environment and our impact on the planet has led me to work with PCEI. Additional stuff about me: I love dogs – we own five!

Kristin LeVier, Board Member
Kristin LeVier is an artist and woodworker who moved to Moscow in 2005. She studied and worked as a molecular microbiologist in the fields of agriculture and infectious disease for the 19 years prior to her move to Idaho. She lives in Moscow with her husband and two children.
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