HUNTERS:
C.W. POMEROY

C.W. Pomeroy was born on a 10,000-acre cattle, sheep and rice ranch in Williams, California, northwest of Sacramento, where he learned to hunt deer, pheasant, duck, dove and quail from the time he was five years old.

Charlie moved to Bainbridge Island in the Pacific Northwest when he was 13, and became immersed in the marine environment. He attended numerous colleges in the state of Washington, majoring in Native American studies.

He started working on tugboats out of Seattle, supplying logging equipment, Alaskan pipeline materials and mining supplies to the small towns and villages from southeastern Alaska to the Aleutian Islands. At 24, Mr. Pomeroy became the youngest licensed tugboat captain in Alaska. He purchased a home in Ketchum, Idaho in 1972, and commuted between there and Alaska for 12 years.

In 1981, Charlie started a small construction company in Ketchum, and continues to operate it today. In 1996, he returned to Alaska to commercially fish for sockeye salmon, spending summers in the Bering Sea for ten years.

Appreciation for wildlife, hunting, fishing and environmental conservation are C.W.’s major interests. Since the 1970s, he has observed the behavior of brown bears and wolves during the Alaskan summers. When in Idaho, he carefully follows elk and deer migrations in wolf habitat. Charlie has been a bow and rifle hunter for elk, deer and antelope for more than 50 years, as well as an avid waterfowl and upland bird hunter.

Mr. Pomeroy has been actively involved in the Idaho Conservation League and the Snake River Alliance for many years.