12/15/2025
Congratulations to Teddy Roe, charter member of Montana Conservation Elders, on being an inductee in the class of 2025 for the Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame.
Teddy grew up on the plains of Nebraska during the dust bowl era. He almost died as an infant from "Dust Pneumonia."
He's a graduate of the U. Montana school of Journalism and lived in Russia during the cold war times for many years, becoming fluent in Russian.
He became a US Senate staffer for both Montana Senators Mike Mansfield and Lee Metcalf. He was Senator Metcalf's legislative director beginning in 1973.
With his conservation ethic, much of it based on his times in the Beartooth Mountains, he guided important conservation legislation through the Senate, a few examples being the designation of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness (1978), the Upper Missouri Wild and Scenic River Act (1976), the Montana Wilderness Study Act (1977) and the Great Bear Wilderness designation (1978). The boundaries of the A-B Wilderness were drawn in the basement of his D.C. area home.
Teddy lives in Billings with his lovely wife Marcie.
I make a point of traveling to Billings at least once a year to visit them.
Thank you Teddy for all you do.
