Cliff Nowell

I joined the Foundation in the early 1990’s and have volunteered for the foundation from that point forward. I joined the Board of Directors in 2020. I first came to the Henry’s Fork in the summer of 1976 while I was working a summer job in Jackson, Wyoming. I remember the slow, confident rise of large trout that I did not have the skill to catch. My favorite thing about the Henry’s Fork is a late June evening on the lower ranch fishing brown drakes.

I currently live in the Buffalo Summer Home area in Island Park in the summer and retreat to the gulf coast of Florida in search of saltwater fish in the winter months. I earned a PhD in economics in 1988 at the University of Wyoming specializing in regulatory economics and resource economics. I worked as an expert witness for the Public Service Commissions of Wyoming and Montana and spent thirty years as a university professor and dean. I now teach part time in Shanghai, China.

When I am not fishing, I train retrievers, bird hunt, and enjoy time with my wonderful wife Laura, and our children.