“Our wild places and the fish and wildlife they support are powerful sources of healing and self-realization. We have a duty to take good care of them.
“To protect fish and wildlife from the adverse impacts of climate-driven rapid environmental change, it’s necessary to build resistance and resilience at the population level. That’s the scientific challenge.
“But there is also a social challenge. Conservation doesn’t succeed unless it engages a broad constituency, including environmentalists, sportsmen, and young people. I work to help organizations surmount both challenges.”
My expertise and experience as a pioneer in fish, wildlife, and river conservation and my standards for excellence in nonprofit leadership offer a unique perspective and skill set to practitioners and philanthropists. My focus is on protecting and, where feasible, restoring native biodiversity at the watershed and landscape scales. I help organizations develop and execute strategies and raise the funds needed to implement them. I also advise philanthropists on potential conservation investments.
My current work in the Western Maine Mountains is one example of how I add value to developing, implementing, and funding climate-related conservation strategies. Conserving biodiversity in this region presents significant cultural and political challenges. The land in the Western Maine Mountains is predominantly private and largely subject to industrial forestry operations. For decades, Maine people have equated conservation with protection from development despite mounting evidence that conserving biodiversity—particularly in the face of a changing climate—requires both that and greater attention to protecting and fostering resilience in native fish and wildlife habitat. I aim to facilitate this paradigm shift by helping clients create the land conservation strategies that achieve the ecological uplift needed for climate resilience.In addition, one of my personal goals is to bring more attention and funding to conserving the Western Maine Mountains. Nationally and globally, the region’s amazing assets—including its wild brook trout and neotropical songbirds—are overlooked and have not garnered the private conservation funding they deserve. I have already succeeded in bringing more private money to the table, and I continue to seek more funds for conserving the region.
“Our wild places and the fish and wildlife they support are powerful sources of healing and self-realization. We have a duty to take good care of them.”
“To protect fish and wildlife from the adverse impacts of climate-driven rapid environmental change, it’s necessary to build resistance and resilience at the population level. That’s the scientific challenge.
“But there is also a social challenge. Conservation doesn’t succeed unless it engages a broad constituency, including environmentalists, sportsmen, and young people. I work to help organizations surmount both challenges.”
My expertise and experience as a pioneer in fish, wildlife, and river conservation and my standards for excellence in nonprofit leadership offer a unique perspective and skill set to practitioners and philanthropists. My focus is on protecting and, where feasible, restoring native biodiversity at the watershed and landscape scales. I help organizations develop and execute strategies and raise the funds needed to implement them. I also advise philanthropists on potential conservation investments.
My current work in the Western Maine Mountains is one example of how I add value to developing, implementing, and funding climate-related conservation strategies. Conserving biodiversity in this region presents significant cultural and political challenges. The land in the Western Maine Mountains is predominantly private and largely subject to industrial forestry operations. For decades, Maine people have equated conservation with protection from development despite mounting evidence that conserving biodiversity—particularly in the face of a changing climate—requires both that and greater attention to protecting and fostering resilience in native fish and wildlife habitat. I aim to facilitate this paradigm shift by helping clients create the land conservation strategies that achieve the ecological uplift needed for climate resilience.In addition, one of my personal goals is to bring more attention and funding to conserving the Western Maine Mountains. Nationally and globally, the region’s amazing assets—including its wild brook trout and neotropical songbirds—are overlooked and have not garnered the private conservation funding they deserve. I have already succeeded in bringing more private money to the table, and I continue to seek more funds for conserving the region.