About the Owners

Hans Scott:

Hans is a co-founder of Three Rivers Resilience Group and brings 15 years of operational experience spanning the full spectrum of fire and emergency response. He has served as a structural firefighter and EMT in Colorado, as a member of a Type 1 Interagency Hotshot Crew based in Idaho, and as an officer for one of Colorado’s premier interagency wildfire programs. He has coordinated wildfire response and mitigation across hundreds of thousands of acres in the Mountain West, working alongside federal, state, county, municipal, and tribal partners— giving him a rare combination of field and administrative capability that few practitioners in this space can claim.

This experience across wildland firefighting, structural fire response, emergency medical services, rescue operations, prevention, and program development has shaped Hans' core operating philosophy: that the most effective solutions are frequently the simplest ones, built on honest assessment of what's actually happening on the ground rather than what looks good in a plan document.

A firm believer in cross-jurisdictional collaboration and addressing problems at their root causes, Hans approaches every conversation the same way he approaches every fire assignment — with practical judgment, and a commitment to doing what actually makes sense.

Katie Scott:

Katie co-founded Three Rivers Resilience Group after extensive operational and administrative experience across Alaska and the Mountain West. She has served on wildfire crews at every level — county sheriff's office fire management, Type 1 Interagency Hotshot Crew service in Alaska and Idaho— and has held a program officer role coordinating inter-organizational wildfire resilience initiatives in Colorado.

That field experience is paired with a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, with formal coursework in Forestry, Wildlife Management, Natural Resources Management, and Emergency Management. The combination of suppression experience, incident command qualification, and academic training in natural resource systems directly informs how Katie approaches grant strategy — with applications built on a clear operational understanding of how projects are executed in the field, not just how they are described on paper. That approach has resulted in millions of dollars in grant awards for the organizations and communities she has served.

Her UAF education and IHC experience in Alaska's boreal fire environment has given her working knowledge of Alaska's fire landscape, rural logistics, and resource management frameworks that directly shapes the firm's approach to serving rural communities, local organizations, and state and federal partners.