Rone Tempest - Editor Email Rone Tempest          WyoFile editor Rone Tempest worked from 1981-2007 as a national reporter, foreign correspondent and senior California correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. His many journalism honors include a 1984 Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the Indira Gandhi assassination, the 1997 Harvard University Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting for reporting on the Democratic Party international campaign funding scandal and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his role in coverage of the devastating forest fires in Southern California.         Descendant of early Rocky Mountain settlers, he lives on ten acres in the Wind River Range foothills outside Lander,Wy. with his wife Laura, cat and two dogs.   Brodie Farquhar - Outdoors Columnist Email Brodie Farquhar         Brodie Farquhar has been covering the West for over 30 years, working in Colorado, Arizona, Kansas, Washington, South Dakota and now Wyoming since 2000. He was a member of the first Scripps Fellowship for Environmental Journalism class at the University of Michigan, where he earned a master's degree in natural resource policy. He's also worked stints in public relations for the Colorado School of Mines, The Nature Conservancy, Crested Butte Mountain Resort and most briefly for Wyoming Democratic candidate Gary Trauner.         Brodie lives in Casper with wife Sharon, daughters Katie and Sarah, while son Eric is stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan as a captain in the U.S. Air Force.   Marguerite Herman - Political Columnist Email Marguerite Herman          Marguerite Herman, 57, moved to Wyoming 28 years ago as the first ever person to transfer to the Cheyenne office of The Associated Press. (You were supposed to train here and move away.) She grew up in an Air Force family, moving every year, and is still a little surprised to find herself so stationary. She has a BA from (The) Colorado College, MAT from University of Chicago and MA in journalism from the University of South Carolina. She is wife to attorney George Powers and mother to Rosemary, Charlotte and Tom. Her abiding interests include breastfeeding, knitting, good government, education, maternal-child health, New Mexican chili and politics - especially politics.         Marguerite lobbies for the League of Women Voters of Wyoming, American Cancer Society, Wyoming Psychological Association, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition and Wyoming PTA. She is author of the LWV's seventh edition of A Look at Wyoming Government.   Samuel Western - Economics Columnist Email Sam Western          WyoFile economics writer Samuel Western has spent 25 years exploring the west. He's been a correspondent for the Economist of London since 1985, but his stories have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, E-Magazine, and High Country News. He's a contributing author to two books, The Next West, and Wild and Fair (due out in March 2008). He's the author of Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming's Search for its Soul, and A Random Census of Souls (due out December 2008). Western specializes in economic history, ethical issues, and examining the human aspect of shifting demographics.          Western lives in Sheridan with his black lab, Finn. His two children, Sally and Cyrus, are away at school. His interests include literature of the land (from Virgil to Houseman to Heaney), history all sorts, music, and cooking. He is a licensed Wyoming hunting guide.   Deb Donahue -- Law Columnist Email Deb Donahue          Deb Donahue is a lawyer and a wildlife biologist. A member of the University of Wyoming College of Law faculty since 1992, she teaches Environmental Law, Public Lands, Indian Law, and Native American Natural Resources Law. She spent 2002 on sabbatical in New Zealand, studying biodiversity conservation policy. Donahue served as executive director of the Wyoming Outdoor Council in 1983-85. She has worked for federal land management agencies, the mining industry, law firms, a federal judge, and conservation organizations, including the National Wildlife Federation in Alaska. She is author of The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity (1999). In 2000 she was honored as the Wyoming Wildlife Federation's Natural Resources Conservationist of the Year. In 2000 she was honored as the Wyoming Wildlife Federation's Natural Resources Conservationist of the Year.   Geoffrey O'Gara -- Culture Columnist Email Geoff O'Gara          Geoffrey O'Gara is an author and television producer based in Wyoming. His books include A Long Road Home (Houghton-Mifflin), about his travels with the 1930s WPA guides; What You See in Clear Water (Knopf), about the battle between Indians and whites over control of water in the West; and a number travel guides. He has written, produced, and hosted programs for Wyoming Public Television since 1991. He has worked as editor of High Country News, a bureau chief for the Casper Star-Tribune, and a freelance writer for publications ranging from the New York Times to National Geographic Traveler. Under pressure, O'Gara will confess that he is originally from California. He moved to Wyoming in 1979 from Washington, D.C., and has lived in Lander since then. He has three semi-grown children with his spouse, Berthenia Crocker.   Jason Marsden -- Environmental Columnist Email Jason Marsden          Jason Marsden has served as executive director of Wyoming Conservation Voters and the WCV Education Fund since September 2001. He was born in a small farming town in southern Minnesota but got to Sheridan in time to finish elementary school, graduating from Sheridan High in 1990 and Harvard College, with a degree in English, in 1994. He served as field director for the Wyoming Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign in 1994 before starting a seven-year career as a Casper Star-Tribune reporter, covering government, the environment, the energy industry and the state's congressional delegation. Jason won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 8 Environmental Achievement Award in 1998 for his coverage of the litigation and eventual cleanup of Casper's former Amoco Refinery site, and has twice been honored by the Wyoming Wildlife Federation. He serves on the boards of directors of the Equality State Policy Council, the Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club and the Alliance for Historic Wyoming. In his remaining free time he studies Dutch, spoils his two cats and pursues domestic tranquility with his partner of 10 years, Guy Padgett, the two-term Casper city councilman and former mayor.     Sam Coffman - Technology Director Email Sam Coffman         Sam Coffman has excelled in many roles in the world of technology over the past 12 years.  He has worked extensively as a programmer, database architect, data warehouse engineer, team lead and project manager on dozens of projects.  His clients and employers have ranged in size from small businesses to U.S. West and Qwest.  His extensive experience in designing and implementing both website and desktop applications has  ranged from  health-care to tele-communications to insurance related industries and more.         When he is not working with computers, Sam's hobbies include the great outdoors, mixed martial arts and music.  He lives outside San Antonio, TX in the hill country region with his wife and teenage daughter (as well as the occasional home visits from his son who is a college student), his daughter's horse and their five dogs.