Art Goodtimes – San Miguel County Commissioner Candidate
A poet, freelance writer, basketweaver and potato farmer, Art Goodtimes is completing his fourth term as a San Miguel County Commissioner, one of only a handful of Green Party commissioners currently elected to partisan office in the U.S. He also currently serves as Co-Chair of the state Green Party.
He is involved in a number of collaborative processes, including the Burn Canyon Monitoring Task Force, the Alpine Ranger Coalition, and the San Juan Fen Partnership. He was awarded a Practitioner Fellowship in 2010 from the Center for Collaborative Conservation at Colorado State University and is working with the County Open Space and Recreation Department to implement a Payment for Ecosystem Service Pilot Project in the county.
He has served on some 50 boards and commissions over the past 16 years, including chair of the National Association of Counties Gateway Communities Subcommittee, chair of Colorado Counties’ Public Lands Steering Committee, and he was twice appointed to the BLM’s Southwestern Colorado Resource Advisory Council.
He has won awards for his work at bridge-building among diverse constituencies from a number of groups, including the Colorado Weed Management Association, Club 20, Interior Dept., U.S. Forest Service, Encana Corporation, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Telluride Institute, and Sheep Mountain Alliance.
In 2011 he was named Western Slope Poet Laureate at the Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival in Carbondale.
Visit Art’s Campaign Website
Read Art’s Guest Commentary about the 2012 Election in the Colorado Statesman.
Check out Comedy Central’s article about this “One of a Kind Candidate”
Also visit Art Goodtimes’ page on the National Directory of Green Candidates.
