I am the District Conservationist for the USDA-NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) for Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga and Ontonagon Counties. I work out of two offices, one located in the UPPCO Building in Houghton; the second is at the Baraga Service Center located in Baraga, Michigan.

I enjoy both the diversity of the people that call the Keweenaw home, our rich industrial/cultural heritage in combination with the abundant water resources in the form of lake Superior and all it's various watersheds that empty into the big lake.

I enjoy outdoor photography, fishing, under water photography, scuba diving, hunting, and target shooting.

I want to help protect land in the Copper Country largely, because of the residents who live here. I hope in the future through both my USDA employment and the KLT - when I am retired from both - that there has been some sort of natural resource progress and or wise land progress that has been made due to our efforts. I see that progress through my employment with the successful completion of such projects as the Torch Lake Superfund Remediation, the Keweenaw Bay Stamp Sand remediation, the eighteen bat closures in the Keweenaw, the publication of three county wide soil surveys, etc. The various KLT projects have also had major impacts on our natural environment. I've worked with numerous private, tribal and governmental entities and have assisted them with both technical knowledge as well as project funding to complete many beneficial natural resource projects over the past 28 years. Hopefully, future generations who choose to reside in the Keweenaw will be able to enjoy some of the same natural features that I have some small part in preserving or enhancing.

I joined the KLT Board of Directors because I like the mission of the KLT and the altruistic, optimistic attitudes of the members and staff plus everything I have mentioned above.

I have a broad knowledge of soils, wildlife, forest management, grant writing, tribal assistance, water resources, photo interpretation in combination with a general knowledge of the four county area, all of which are beneficial to the KLT.


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