The Taimen Fund

Dan has spent the better part of the last 20 years working in the fly-fishing and conservation community. After years of guiding anglers in his home state of Wyoming, Dan began his work in Mongolia in the summer of 2007 as a river ecologist. He initially went to Mongolia to fish for taimen, the world’s largest salmonid. Over the next 13 years, he guided and outfitted wilderness float trips across northern Mongolia.

Dan has incorporated resource conservation and community development as part of his businesses for the last 10 years. Graduating from the University of Montana with a Master’s Degree in International Conservation and Development, his focus and determination to add value to the resources his business utilizes is a major draw for his new work and operation on Kiribati’s famed Christmas Island. Dan is one of the founding board members of The Taimen Fund, a non-profit committed to protecting the world’s last remaining wild taimen, bringing some very relevant experience to FCF. He has called Montana home for the last 20 years and lives in Livingston, MT.