Hi! I'm Debbie and my husband is Ken. The Glacier Creek Gang owns us! We've been in kuvasz for eleven years, ever since Shiner came into our lives.
I came to Alaska in 1985 after finishing a Master of Science degree from Utah State University where I studied the effects of prescribed burning on elk habitat in western Wyoming (one of my classmates, Bob Crabtree, has been studying livestock dogs and the Yellowstone Wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park. He's cited on the Flockguard web page) My undergraduate degree was in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University. My whole family lives in San Antonio, Texas. I came up to Alaska to work as a botanist for the summer on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (a place of unsurpassed beauty that the Oil Companies are drooling over, sadly), met helicopter pilot Ken (he was working with the bear and wolf biologists) and the rest is history! After ANWR, I worked as a Wetland Biologist for the U.S Army Corps of Engineers, then as an Environmental Protection Specialist for the Bureau of Land Management's Trans-Alaska Pipeline Office, and now as the State Botanist for BLM. I have an exciting summer planned with Rare Plant Surveys in the rugged mountains of Western Alaska, Celebrating Wildflowers walks around the city, and plenty of dog shows (and hikes) thrown in.
Ken came to Alaska over 20 years ago from Wyoming, where he still has his farm in Powell, and ranch near Laramie. He's a popular helicopter pilot, decorated in Viet Nam and loves to work with the wildlife best of all. He's taken the last couple of years off to build our dream house, with time off to go sailing on his 38' Sweden Yacht, Eminence (moored down in Anacortes, Washington), snowmobiling at our cabin in Eureka, and riding his Harley.
We have three acres on the South Fork of the Eagle River surrounded
by State Park wilderness. Bears, wolves, lynx, owls and spruce grouse are
regular visitors to our place, and king salmon spawn in the rapids right
below our house. A kuvasz paradise! We hope maybe someday you can come
visit us here in Alaska, and go for some great hikes with the dogs!
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