
Ribe is a native of Los Alamos, raised by longtime League of Women Voters activist Mally Ribe who was very active in the Los Alamos League until she and Fred Ribe moved to Seattle in 1978.
Ribe is knowledgeable on natural resource issues relating to the Four Corners area. He worked for Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1992 to 1997 in the Environmental Restoration program.
Ribe authored “Inferno by Committee, A History of the Cerro Grande Fire” and lives in Santa Fe where he writes, works in venture capital, the tourism industry, and as executive director of Caldera Action, a group focused on the preservation of the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
Ribe has an MS in Environmental Policy from the University of Oregon and has written extensively on energy, public lands and wildfire.