Tom Siebel – Montana Corporate Cowboy and Founder of The Montana Meth Project

In the middle of moving a herd of black angus cattle from one pasture to another, Tom Siebel dismounts his horse and starts picking up stray pieces of old trash — bailing wire, odd pieces of rusted metal, glass discolored by the years of exposure to the elements. “Hey, this could be a meth lab from 1929,” Siebel jokes in the gravelly voice. Coming from anyone else, the statement might earn a chuckle. But for Siebel, the man behind the Montana Meth Project, it carries a weighty message. He’s invested more than $10 million into ridding the state of what he calls “the devil’s drug.”

It’s midmorning on the Dearborn Ranch. The sun is starting to beat down hard and a trickle of sweat collects on the back of Siebel’s baggy blue shirt. The cattle move slowly but willingly except for a few confused calves who bolt from the herd every once in a while only to be headed off by Siebel or one of the ranch hands, Todd Krenning, Shane Hoopes, and Pete Petersen. Pedro, a young chocolate Lab, tries his hand at being a cattle dog, with little luck.

By Peggy O’Neill – IR Staff Writer

Montana Meth Project: http://www.montanameth.org/

Full Story: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/09/10/helena_life/c01091006_01.txt

(Many thanks to the Montana Chamber of Commerce for passing this along. Russ)

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Founder of the Montana Meth Project a normal family man targeting ‘devil’s drug’ http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/13/news/state/20-siebel.txt