Bryan Jones has a long history steeped in conservation and service.  After graduating high school, he did a tour of duty with the Navy traveling to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, the North Atlantic, and the Caribbean. He went on to graduate from Gonzaga University and ended up not far from home teaching Special Education at Endicott Elementary and Middle School. In 1995, after teaching full time as well as helping his father on the farm, his father suffered a serious heart attack. He made the decision to transition to farming full time. However, he could not continue in the same vein. He learned about no-till farming and other practices necessary to keep soil healthy and alive. In time, he improved his ten-year average yield by almost 30 bushels per acre. Neighboring farmers began to notice how healthy his wheat looked.

Bryan joined the local Whitman County Wheat Growers Association. There he promoted no-till seeding, learned more about the business of farming, lobbied his elected officials in Olympia and eventually became President of the organization for a term. Soon after, he was accepted into the Washington Agriculture Forestry Program. He traveled the state, and to Texas, Washington DC and to Russia learning about different farming practices. In 2006, Bryan met a representative from the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition. Since that time, he has been engaged in conversations with commercial and sports fishermen concerned with the steep decline in salmon and steelhead fisheries. He has been involved in exploring opportunities so that wheat farmers and fishermen alike are able to continue to do what they do. He travels all over the state participating in discussions about the need to breach the 4 dams on the lower Snake River and find different solutions to transport grain. He is featured in the movie Damnation and has been on the Snake River Salmon Recovery Board for 4 years. Bryan has also been on the Whitman Conservation Board for 6 years.