Six new board members joined Trout Unlimited's (TU) board of trustees.


The new board members will serve two-year terms, which began on October 1. With 140,000 members and 400 chapters, Arlingtin, VA-based TU is North America's largest coldwater conservation group.


The new board members are Kai Anderson, executive vice president of Cassidy & Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm; Valerie Colas-Ohrstrom, a natural resources policy expert, of New York, N.Y.; Thomas P. Danco, founder of TBG Danco, Inc., a Los Angeles-based consulting and insurance advisory firm; Mike Dombeck, former director of the Bureau of Land Management and former chief of the U.S. Forest Service; Richard Johnson, founder and former CEO of HotJobs.com and John R. Willis, managing partner and co-founder of Willis Stein & Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm.


Chris Wood is the President and CEO of Trout Unlimited.