Matt is married to HCW Program Director, Alayne Blickle, and has been actively involved with HCW since it inception. In addition to co-facilitating farm tours and occasionally making HCW presentations for Alayne, he helps to manage their 10 acre horse farm in an environmentally sensitive manner. Matt is active in the reining horse industry, incluing showing and managing reining events in the Pacific Northwest. He also holds a judges card from the National Reining Horse Association.
Matt is a member of the King Conservation District Board of Supervisors. Conservation Districts are non-regulatory, non-enforcement natural resource conservation organizations (there is one in every county in the country) that work with land owners and governmental agencies on land-use management and implementation issues.
