Care of Land and People Shape Lives of the Malones Photo Credit: Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
Standing on the banks of the Red Lake River, contemplating the solution to a streambank failure downstream of the Greenwood Street bridge in Thief River Falls. The SWCD received funding from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to solve this erosion problem.
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It is certain Bryan 1990 and Angela (Cost) Malone 1990 and 1997 cannot talk about their history without remembering a chance meeting at the University of Minnesota Crookston on only their second day on campus, but after only dating for a short time they went their separate ways, not knowing the journey would eventually bring them back to one another. After UMN Crookston, Bryan went on to graduate from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities earning a bachelor’s degree in forest resources. Following graduation he spent time working with the Carver Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and the Northwestern Minnesota Joint Powers Board before taking a position as district manager for the Pennington SWCD in Thief River Falls, Minn., where he has been for the past 21 years. Bryan had a series of internships and summer jobs that helped him determine where he wanted his career. He interned in Hackensack, Minn., at the Deep Portage Learning Center, a non-profit residential environmental education/ outdoor recreation center, and following that internship he had summer jobs with the Forest Service in Idaho and Wyoming and finally with the Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation Board in Chisholm, Minn. “Those experiences really helped me decide what kind of a career path I wanted to follow,” Bryan says. “I love my job as district manager in the Pennington County SWCD. I enjoy the variety of job duties as well as developing personal relationships with landowners and gaining their trust to incorporate
