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Bob Moseley
Director of Conservation
According to Bob Moseley, the need to balance Illinois’ growing human demand for natural resources with a healthy environment and economy is one of the state’s most significant conservation issues. After working over the past 25 years across diverse terrain in the United States and China, he is now focused on to protecting and restoring the densely populated state of Illinois. Threats such as climate change and pollution add to the complexity of the solutions, however Bob notes that solutions do exist. Awarded a Kinship Conservation Fellowship in 2008, he is working to develop market-based approaches to Mississippi River floodplain conservation — such as biomass production, nutrient and carbon sequestration, and wetland mitigation banking.
An alpine ecologist by training, Bob’s devotion to the environment was born in the mountains of Idaho where he spent most of his life and began his career with the U.S. Forest Service. During his work there as a field biologist, Bob worked with The Nature Conservancy and the Idaho Conservation Data Center where he was involved in several large efforts in the Pacific Northwest assessing and analyzing broad scale patterns of biodiversity and threats in addition to management and conservation implications. His hobby of mountain climbing took him across the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. and Canada, as well as the southern Andes of Chile. In 2000, Bob was named the Director of Conservation Science for The Nature Conservancy’s new China Country program where he led the effort to launch an in-country science program that continues to grow. During his nearly six years in the country, he worked extensively with local communities and scientists in northwestern Yunnan to design conservation strategies that abate the most critical threats to the environment. He also found time to author a rock climbing guide for the Yunnan Province.
Bob leads a team of conservation staff members in Illinois who are working with private and public partners to foster a sustainable existence.
Photo credits (top to bottom, left to right): Bur oak in a field at the Franklin demonstration farm in the Mackinaw River watershed, Illinois © Timothy T. Lindenbaum/TNC; Bob Moseley, Illinois Director of Conservation © Lloyd DeGrane
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