Sally, a native of Colorado, now splits time between her home state and Patagonia. She has had an on-going love affair with wild nature since very early childhood, starting to draw at the age of seven.

Recently inspired by a friend's ranch and her remote, off-the-grid home in the expansive Andes of Argentina, she began to paint and draw again after more than 26 years of letting the brushes and Graphitess rest silent after receiving a B.A. in Art and M.A. in Education. She works in oils, watercolors, pen and ink, and Graphites.

Her early experiences living on a cattle ranch, running rivers, and adventuring in wilderness as much as possible led to a head-on collision with destiny. She found herself catapulted into public land and water policy by both the beauty and needless degradation of America's wildlands, wildlife, and forests.  

She went from roaming the hills of beloved high-country to walking the halls of Congress and studying at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. Deeply and passionately involved in environmental issues for more than two decades, she became an internationally recognized wildland conservation specialist and activist.

Initially working as a resource policy analyst for the Wilderness Society, she later co-founded American Wildlands and served as President for 20 years. She also established American Wilderness Adventures which hosted over 120 itneraries worldwide into many of the world's most spectacular wild and threatened areas. Consequently, she has been involved in projects throughout the continental U.S. and Alaska, Africa, South America and Canada.

Working closely with several U.S. Presidents and members of Congress on natual resource issues, she was appointed by President Reagan to serve on the Presidential Commission on Americans Outdoors. She has received the prestigious Horace Albright Award and the International Wildlife Foundation's Meritorious Conservation Award.

Sally now tries to dedicate half time to her art and half time to conservation. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Natural Step and The Gallmann Conservancy, and is President of Rising Wolf Associates, her natural resource consulting group.

Sally is presently a principal in StillWater Preservation, LLC, a private, Colorado-based company specializing in wetlands mitigation banking

Ms. Ranney a published author and lecturer and the mother of one son. She loves to hike, fish, raft, ski, horseback ride and write music. She maintains two organic gardens...one in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres.