Equifest Program 2020

TPECWorkshop Presenters

Wendy Bowles Wendy is a conservation worker at Kanopolis State Park near Marquette, Kansas. She has worked at Kanopolis State Park for 29 years. Prior to employment with the state of Kansas, Wendy worked as a field biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, Colorado. She is a graduate of Colorado State University and has a B.S. in wildlife biology. When Wendy started at Kanopolis, there was 1.5 miles of mapped established trails. After working with Ellen Querner

and NARTC in 1992 for a competitive ride, Wendy requested to keep the trails that she and Ellen had laid out and open them for public use. These trails have been mowed and marked every year since 1992 giving Kanopolis more than 27 miles of trail open to equestrians. This was the beginning of the equestrian trails and campgrounds in Kansas State Parks. Wendy also serves as a naturalist in the park, presenting nature programs to participants each year. Jim Gray

Jim is a sixth generation Kansan raising cattle in central Kansas on a portion of the old Gray’s Ranch established in 1883. Jim published “The Kansas Cowboy” from 1996-2008 to promote and preserve the cowboy heritage of Kansas. His book, “Desperate Seed: Ellsworth Kansas on the Violent Frontier,” chronicles one of the West’s wildest towns. His weekly newspaper column, The Way West, has been in publication since 2010. In 2011, he drove cattle over 200 miles with a select “outfit” on the three week 150th Anniversary Cattle Drive from Caldwell to Ellsworth. Gray has been a speaker for Humanities Kansas since 2011 and continues to research and restore life to stories buried but not forgotten. Caden Butler Caden is a partner at Norton, Wasserman, Jones & Kelly and has been practicing law since 2010. He practices in the estate planning, elder law, real estate, business law, and transactional law areas. He received his bachelor’s degree from Kansas State University in 2006 and his law degree from the University of Kansas in 2009.

Email him at clb@nwjklaw.com. See workshop schedule on page 8-9.

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