Trustee Council Members

Jason Brey grew up on the edge of the Ottawa National Forest in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, spending countless hours hunting whitetail deer and ruffed grouse. After graduating from Michigan Technological University in 2002 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry, he began working for a county land department in Minnesota, with responsibility for sustainably managing 50,000 acres of forested county lands. He started with the U.S. Forest Service in 2007 as a silviculturist on the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota. Having long had a desire to live in the western U.S., Jason and his family moved to Wyoming in 2010 to work on the Shoshone National Forest. Prior to becoming the Deputy Forest Supervisor on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests in 2023, Jason spent 10 years as a District Ranger in two locations. One of those locations was the Hebgen Lake Ranger District in West Yellowstone, Montana where he spent 8 years fulfilling the Forest Service’s multiple-use mission adjacent to Yellowstone National Park’s busiest entrance, along with mega-fauna like grizzly bears and bison roaming the landscape. Outside of work, Jason and his wife, Toni, enjoy spending time with their boys boating on Lake Coeur d’Alene, trap shooting, golfing and backpacking.

Ralph Allan is a member of the Coeur D’ Alene Tribe, and he is currently the Fish & Wildlife program manager in the Tribe’s Natural Resources department. He joined the Tribe’s Natural Resource’s department in 2003 as a wildlife technician, and worked his way through the ranks and school to be where he is currently at in his career. Ralph earned two A.A.S degrees in 2015 from Spokane Community College, and his B.A. from Whitworth University in 2020. Ralph also is a member of the Tribe’s Natural Resource’s Committee, and enjoys doing his part to protect, preserve and enhance the Tribe’s natural resources. Ralph has a deep love and passion for the people, land and waters that make up his aboriginal homelands. Ralph enjoys hunting, fishing, hiking and especially inspiring youth to take an interest in the natural world and all of the beauty it has to offer.

Carson Watkins grew up on a family farm and ranch in Emmett, Idaho where he developed his love for Idaho and its resources. He joined the Idaho Fish and Game in 2014 as a Regional Fisheries Biologist where he worked on large lake fisheries issues and wild trout management in the Coeur d’Alene Basin, among many other things. In 2019, Carson moved south to become the Southeast Regional Fisheries Manager where he worked on restoration of wild trout fisheries and was instrumental in the cross-program integration of the region’s ongoing bird-fish conflict resolution. He currently serves the state as the Regional Supervisor for the Panhandle Region and is based in Coeur d’Alene. The challenges of collaboratively working on the “people side” of fisheries and wildlife management issues is what Carson enjoys most about his job. He earned a B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Management from the University of Wyoming and a M.S. in Fishery Science from the University of Idaho. In his spare time, Carson and his wife, Adeline, stay busy trying to keep up with their two young boys—generally fishing, hunting, firewood cutting, and anything else that keeps the family outside.

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