PRESIDENT

A graduate of University of New Mexico School of Law, Jason is a native New Mexican and avid fly fisherman who grew up casting in New Mexico streams – a journalist-turned-attorney and adult-onset archery hunter. He currently volunteers with the NM Supreme Court’s Rules of Evidence Committee, serves on the UNM Law Alumni Association board of directors and is a member of the Governor’s Brain Injury Advisory Council. Fly fishing shaped Jason’s interest in conservation and inspired him as a UNM law student to initiate research into the status and legal history of public access to New Mexico streams; his findings ultimately reshaped
enforcement of the state’s water laws. He joined the NMWF board to become a more active participant in the conservation community and is specifically interested in “contributing to NMWF’s continued track record of protecting, improving and increasing access to public waters and lands in New Mexico.”

VICE-PRESIDENT

Suzy Wieser believes it’s important for everyone who cares about the environment and the outdoors to step up and do their part.

Like many anglers, Wieser started out fishing with spinners but made the move to fly tackle. These days, her favorite river is the San Juan, where she says her two dogs like to accompany her on the water.

“With fly fishing, I like that it’s much more technical. I’m sure spinner fishing may not say that,” Wieser said. “I’m really having to focus on my own skills. But for me, it’s really just being out in nature, and seeing wildlife, and having that calmness of it.”

Wieser got involved with the NMWF because of her commitment to conserving and protecting wildlife and the environment.  “We just have faced so many challenges, especially in the last few years, and the only way we’re going to protect it is for each and and everyone of use to step in and do something, and it,” she said.

When she’s not fishing, Wieser works at Bank of America. She graduated from the University of New Mexico and also holds an associate’s degree in veterinary technology.

SECRETARY

Marietta Eaton is retired from a 35-year career with the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management as an archaeologist and conservationist,  including a stint as the National Conservation Lands Science Advisor in Washington, D.C. She closed her career as the manager of the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado, where she worked closely with indigenous people to whom the area is sacred. Born in New Mexico, she relates that her summers in the Jemez Mountains “nurtured my love for the outdoors and creatures that shared the earth with me.”  After retirement, she returned to New Mexico and sought  to volunteer in the conservation community. She found that the New Mexico Wildlife Federation appealed to her varied interests, ranging from outdoor education through wildlife, water and habitat management. 

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Carlos Martinez del Rio worked for decades as a professor in zoology and physiology at the University of Wyoming before settling in Silver City. He has a special fondness for hummingbirds and other pollinators. Martinez del Rio grew up on a cattle ranch in northern Mexico. His first job after finishing his doctoral degree was as a professor at Princeton University. He soon left for Wyoming after finding that New Jersey doesn’t offer much wilderness. “The land I love is the weird edge between the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts and the Colorado Plateau, which is southwestern New Mexico,” Martinez del Rio said. “Just think about it: I live in Silver City, at the edge of the world’s first established wilderness area, which is the Gila, surrounded by 2.5 million acres of national forest and two of the largest wilderness areas in the United States. I have six species of hummingbirds at the feeders and nectar-feeding bats coming in September. It’s a magnificent place to be a biologist and a hunter.” Martinez del Rio looks forward to bringing a scientific approach to analyzing wildlife management decisions in New Mexico and intends to be active in NMWF education programs.

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Laura Naranjo has spent most of her life in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, growing up in Colorado and Montana and now raising her family in New Mexico. After earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado, she launched a serendipitous career as a science writer and graphic artist at a climate research center. At this intersection between art and science, she learned the value of wild habitats and the vulnerability of their ecosystems. Laura currently lives in Albuquerque and works in special education. She spends most of her free time hiking, bowhunting, and volunteering with organizations that champion public lands and wildlife.

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Cornell “Corey” Torivio was born in San Bernardino, CA. He is Native American from the Pueblo of Acoma, NM. Corey has a BA in Culinary Arts and a passion for the outdoors, particularly wilderness and desert areas, and has devoted his life to giving Native youth an opportunity to be successful in the ever-changing world. The founder of Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps, he has built a strong foundation that, to this day, continues to change the lives of Native youth. Corey has been in the preservation and conservation field for more than 20 years. Having worked with Acoma’s Historic Preservation Office, he received the Heritage Preservation Award from former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson for his outstanding work on the San Estevan Del Rey Mission at Old Acoma. He also has devoted his time to working with the National Park Service in the preservation of Native and Non-Native Historic and prehistoric sites in the El Malpais/El Morro conservation area and monument, Petrified Forest National Park, and Aztec Ruins National Monument.

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Julian was born and raised in Santa Fe. He is married to Peggy and has three children. He is an avid hunter, angler, and all-around sportsman who enjoys recreating on public lands. He served 27 years in the military and is a decorated combat veteran, serving as 1SG in the New Mexico Army National Guard. He has shifted his energy and is now a passionate advocate for wildlife and public lands. If you get him talking, he may tell you a story or two from catching a hybrid bass in a pond at Saddam Hussein's palace to catching wild, attacking javelina bare-handed. He carries a remarkable wealth of knowledge on mountain and Spanish traditions. Passing this knowledge is one of Julian's passions. He is a firearms expert, bowhunter education instructor, HE instructor, NM land navigation instructor, survival instructor, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish northeast chair for the habitat stamp program and livestock rancher. As Northern NM Grassroots Organizer, Julian uses his local knowledge to unite individuals and communities for the protection of public lands with an emphasis on our Caja del Rio campaign.

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grew up in the Midwest, and discovered a love for the outdoors while exploring the rivers and trails in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains. Despite his suburban upbringing, he felt at home the first time he visited the Rocky Mountain West and now resides in Santa Fe with his wife Sarah, their dog Tater, 3 horses, 5 chickens, 3 goats and a cat. After graduating from Elon University, he’s worked in television and digital media for the last 15 years, and has been running Mountain Standard Creative, a video production company specializing in outdoor video,  since 2017. Before that, he ran Outside Magazine's video channel, and continues to write and produce video content for Outside and other outdoor media outlets today. He got involved with NMWF in an effort to help conserve and protect the public land and wildlife he loves. You can usually find him outside, mountain biking, skiing, fly fishing or bowhunting.  

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Daniel is a lifelong New Mexican, from growing up in rural northeastern New Mexico, to attending UNM for both undergraduate and law school, to practicing law in Albuquerque now.  He has hunted big game in New Mexico every year since getting his hunter’s safety card in childhood and now pursues various species across the state as often as possible.  He also enjoys fishing, backpacking, and camping with his wife and young kids.  Daniel cares deeply about the wildlife, habitat, and public access that make our state great, and joined the NMWF Board to contribute to the protection and enhancement of those animals, places, and opportunities.

PRESIDENT EMERITUS

John Crenshaw studied journalism at New Mexico Highlands University and went on to work as a reporter, then associate editor, at the Santa Fe New Mexican before joining the Department of Game and Fish in 1974. He dedicated the next 23-plus years to the state’s wildlife and sportsmen, learning about game and fisheries management. Now retired, he got into the politics of wildlife management in 2011 to fight bills that would have eliminated the State Game Commission and open the door to partisan political hiring in the game department. He subsequently joined the NMWF board and has actively lobbied the Legislature on behalf of wildlife and sportsmen ever since.