Travis Thompson
Outdoor Addict + Water Lawyer
Travis is a native Idahoan growing up in the Magic Valley in small rural farming towns.
After high school Travis ventured north to the University of Idaho for college and law school, graduating in 2000.
Travis joined Barker Rosholt & Simpson LLP in 2000 and maintains a natural resource practice with an emphasis on water and environmental law in the firm’s Twin Falls office. He represents irrigation companies, individual farmers and water users and is passionate about all things water.
Travis and his wife Mandi have three sons spread across college, high school, and middle school. The Thompsons enjoy whitewater rafting, fishing, hunting, and spending time in the outdoors.
Gus and Kimberly Bracket
Ranchers + Historians + Authors
Gus and Kimberly Brackett live and work on a cattle ranch in southeastern Owyhee County. They raise cattle, horses, and kids on their small, family outfit. They are both passionate about telling the stories of Idaho.
Kimberly is a columnist for the Times-News and a contributor for Ag Proud Idaho.
Gus writes historical fiction for children, chronicling the events of southern Idaho.
Both are local historians and have written several local history books.
Marjorie McBride
poet + photographer + river guide
In southern Idaho, there’s a blink of a community that was settled by Germans in 1915. When they arrived Red Clover carpeted the land and so it was coined Clover. Today a church and school still operate on the Clover tract.
Marjorie a descendant of one of the original settlers grew up just down the road in the very home her grandfather built. She was cultivated in a home rich with music, especially barbershop to which she attributes much of her gift to write poetry. Still in southern idaho this fifth generation Idahoan is now raising the sixth generation with her husband JJ.
JJ grew up in a neighboring community but met Marji later at the University of Montana. She then followed him to Stanley, Idaho that summer where their love for each other and
the river deepened as they worked as rafting guides on the middle fork of the salmon river. On the water Marjorie’s photography career began when she met the renowned Idaho photographer, Steve Bly. Marjorie has now been capturing this great state in words and images for over 20 years.
Randy Thaemert
Outdoor Addict + Designer
A fourth-generation Idahoan, born and raised on his family's Southern Idaho farm, Randy spent most of his time outdoors—hunting, fishing, camping, riding motorcycles, skis, and horses.
A graphic designer and branding consultant by trade, Randy's passion for Idaho's outdoors led him to launch Idaho-Forged, so others may share their appreciation for what it takes to live in the greatest state in the Union.
Randy and his Idaho-Forged wife, Nanci, are blessed with two incredible daughters, and a life the luckiest of men would envy.