Jim is a longtime seasonal resident of the Teton Valley and has been very active in the land conservation community there. He is a proponent of conservation and has worked very hard to help preserve the beauty and character of Jackson Hole. He is an avid skier, an equally avid fisherman. Jim is a graduate of Stanford University and was in the banking business in California for many years before taking the reins of his family’s business - The Flood Corporation in San Francisco. Jim is very involved in the management of his family's 37,000-acre ranch in northern Santa Barbara County, which includes 1,000 head of cattle, 500 acres of grapes and the Rancho Sisquoc winery, a small venture that produces 10,000 cases of wine a year. He divides his time between San Francisco and Jackson Hole.