Author Description
Scott Yates is the Wyoming Water Project Director for Trout Unlimited (TU) in Lander, Wyoming. Scott began working for TU in 1997. His tenure with TU has included work in the Pacifc Northwest on salmon and steelhead issues, the Rocky Mountains on native trout issues, and Idaho and Wyoming for stream flows. He left TU briefly in 2005 to work for Portland General Electric as the License Manager for the 350 megawatt Pelton-Round Butte Project on the Deschutes River. He now directs TU’s Wyoming Water Project based in Lander. Scott has an undergraduate degree from Willamette University and a law degree and environmental and natural resource law certificate from Lewis & Clark’s Northwestern School of Law.
