Land, water, science, and policy.
Twenty-five years in land and habitat management, water planning and infrastructure, large-scale adaptive management and program leadership — most of that work supporting the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program's growth from a collaborative long-shot to an endangered species recovery success story.
Executive Director of the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (PRRIP), a multi-state ESA recovery program serving Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Joined PRRIP at time of congressional authorization and helped take it from programmatic agreement to an endangered species recovery success story.
As PRRIP prepares to enter its next phase, exploring future work at the intersection of land, water, science and public policy.
Lead or co-author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed scientific publications.
B.S. Comprehensive Biology, summa cum laude — Chadron State College, 2000.
Program and organizational leadership
Staffing, finance, governance support, contracting, and the day-to-day infrastructure that keeps a company and collaborative program running.
Multi-stakeholder governance
Working within consensus-based committees of state and federal agencies, water users, and environmental organizations to navigate conflict and make progress.
Adaptive management
Translating frameworks into large-scale adaptive management experiment implementation, monitoring, and assessment. Successful operationalization of science to adjust management.
Habitat & species recovery
Large-scale habitat work for ESA-listed species, integrating hydrology, geomorphology, and species ecology.
Water supply projects
Evaluation and implementation of structural and non-structural water supply projects.
Strategic transition & implementation
Moving complex programs from planning and negotiation into durable operating frameworks.
Happy to talk.
Especially around program leadership, land and water strategy, adaptive management, species recovery, and collaborative conservation.