Red River Watershed Association

(Joined the RRWA in 2007)

Jim Pascoe, President

(Founding Member, Board President 2001-2004)

Jim has been an avid outdoors person his entire life.  He grew up in Southern  Missouri enjoying the Ozarks as a playground for hiking and backpacking, and the Ozark National Scenic Riverways for canoeing.  

Jim has worked with troubled youth in residential and psychiatric facilities for 20+years.  He has run adventure challenge and recreational programs using the outdoors to help kids learn how to better function in society.  Currently he is the Director of Clinical Training for Universal Health Services focusing on helping programs run better and training the staff to minimize and prevent crises when dealing with troubled kids and impaired adults.

"I got involved with the RRWA to improve my connection to the local community.  I love working with people and the environment.  Water issues are proving to be the number one environmental concern in the country.  I would love to be able to have a positive impact on the people and environment of the Red River Watershed."

Vice President - Tennessee

(Joined the RRWA Board 2005)

Renée Wray-Davis is a very concerned individual with, and a staunch supporter of, ecology going back to the late 1960’s. Water, especially, became a very high priority to her after living in India.  Her background of Social Work and Psychology, and her great passion for animals and nature, have guided her through areas of business, teaching and equestrian sports.  Originally from Wisconsin, she came to Tennessee 20 years ago via the northern Virginia area.  Happily ensconced on her farm in Cedar Hill, she is a wife, mother of Lily and many four-leggeds, and a home educator.  She is very pleased to be on the board of RRWA, having been involved in the formative meetings since its inception.

Vice President -  Kentucky

(Joined the RRWA Board 2005)

Edison Guthrie, Secretary/Treasurer

 (Founding Member, Board Secretary/Treasurer 2001-2003)

(Joined the RRWA Board 2007)

Clyde is a lifelong resident of Robertson County, Tennessee. He is the first born of C.W. and Betty Dean's 5 sons and has worked at Dean Oil for 35 years.  Clyde's wife, Scotty is a 4th grade school teacher at East Robertson. Clyde has 3 children; Shannon Biggs, Suzanne (Mike) Jones, and Will Dean.  He is a member of the Springfield Baptist Church and Treasurer of the Barren Plains Men's Club.  Clyde is Board Chairman of both the Robertson County Senior Citizen Center, and the Springfield High School P.R.I.D.E. group.  He loves yard work, flowers, fishing, golf, nature, and family.

Mack Finley

(Founding Member, Board Vice President 2001-2004, Board President 2005)

Bettye Glover 

(Joined the RRWA Board 2003)

Dr. Steven Hamilton

(Joined the RRWA Board 2004)

Steve’s lifelong affinity for water began with swimming, playing, fishing and boating in the stream rivers and ponds of native Upstate New York (It ain’t New York City, folks!) From the beginning it was an almost magnetic attraction (His mother claims that is why he fell in each time he was near a stream or lake).  This aquatic affection resurface professionally while pursuing a Master’s degree at the University of Kansas, where he took a graduate research appointment with the Kansas Biological Survey collecting and identifying aquatic invertebrates from throughout the Sunflower State.  Following completion of an M.S. in Entomology at KU, Steve moved to Clemson University in beautiful northwestern South Carolina and received his doctorate. In the spring of 1987 Steve joined the Austin Peay State University Department of Biology and the Center for Field Biology as an aquatic macroinvertebrate biologist. 

At APSU, I have had the very great fortune to collaborate with Dr. Mack T. Finley among other biology faculty on watershed research and restoration projects in Henry, Montgomery and Robertson counties.  It has also afforded me the opportunity to train many undergraduate and graduate students in aquatic biology.  With Ms. Laurina Lyle, Project Wet Coordinator for Tennessee, I have worked on stream monitoring projects with many high school students from Montgomery County.  

Roy Jenson

(Founding Member)

(Joined the RRWA Board 2006)

Sara grew up canoeing, hiking and camping in central Ohio. She graduated in 2004 with at BS Degree in Biology from SUNY-ESF in NY. 

Sara's interests are nature photography, hiking, biking, native plants, butterflying and birding!

Sara has been a board member for two years and has been working with the RRWA since moving here in Summer 2004.

"I love Tennessee and it's rivers and streams and hope to help protect them for many more years to come!"

(Joined the RRWA Board 2007)

Sam works on an organic grain and cattle farm in Orlinda, TN.

Sam originally became interested in RRWA because of a desire to conserve our ever-dwindling supply of fertile farmland from the building of new houses.

(Joined the RRWA Board 2005)

Mary Linn is a resident of Todd County, Kentucky.  Her family's farmland includes Spring Creek, a tributary of the Red River.  Mary Linn is a lifetime educator, retired from 30 years as a primary teacher with the Clarksville - Montgomery County School System.  For the past 8 years she has been the Director of the First Presbyterian Church Preschool in Clarksville.

Lindsay Bland, Founding Board Member 2001 - 2002,

                                Executive Director 2002 - 2007

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W.R. Bedwell, Founding Board Member 2001 - 2003

Dixie Couts, Founding Board Member 2001 - 2005,  Vice President 2001-2002

Roger Blackwood, Founding Board Member 2001 - 2003

Joe and Kay Gaston, Founding Board Members 2001 - 2003

Gilbert Mattox, Board Member 2003

Karla Kean, Board Member 2005, Secretary 2005

Kathy Veatch, Board Member 2005 - 2006, Vice President-Tennessee 2006