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Amanda Evans
Lead Field Educator
Amanda Evans is a Yellowstone Forever lead field educator. Her passion for wildlife and wild places has led her to making the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem her home. She feels that it is through firsthand experience with the natural world that people build the strongest connections to it. Her goal is to use education to foster the same appreciation she feels and to inspire others to preserve and protect nature in all spaces.
Abbey Thomas
Field Educator
Abbey Thomas is a former wildlife researcher who has worked in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for around seven years now. She grew up just west of Yellowstone and considers the ecosystem to be her home. Abbey made the switch to working as an educator because of her passion for helping foster other people’s curiosity for the natural world. She is also passionate about environmental conservation and strives to help others become stewards for the ecosystem. Abbey is an avid outdoorswoman who loves exploring the little details in the environment, and she enjoys sharing those details with others.
Samuel Archibald, M.E.M.
Lead Field Educator
Sam Archibald is a Lead Field Educator for Yellowstone Forever. Sam first started with outdoor education as a US Peace Corps volunteer, working with an Ecuadorian nonprofit organization to develop outdoor leadership programs for youth. After earning his masterâs degree in Environmental Management through Western Colorado University (Gunnison, CO), Sam joined the National Park Service, working as a Crew Leader for the Yellowstone Youth Conservation Corps. What was supposed to be a single season in YNP turned into many as Sam fell in love the vivacity of this ecosystem. Sam first joined Yellowstone Forever’s team as a winter seasonal educator and has been a permanent instructor since 2022. Sam is grateful for every day he gets to spend out in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and looks forward to the continual discoveries offered by this wild and wonderful landscape.
