The Nature Conservancy Names New State Director
SANTA FE, NM — The Nature Conservancy announces the appointment of Terry Sullivan as the new state director for its New Mexico program. Sullivan, formerly the assistant state director  based in Las Cruces, assumed the position Jan. 03, 2006 after a nationwide search. He takes over from Bill Waldman, who served in that position for 18 years and recently accepted a job with the Conservancy’s worldwide office in Arlington, VA.
Sullivan has more than 13 years of experience with The Nature Conservancy, serving the New Mexico program in a number of positions including director of conservation programs and director of land protection. In 2000, as the program’s new assistant state director, he opened the Conservancy’s Las Cruces office and for the next five years directed conservation efforts in the southern part of the state. These include the preservation of Soledad Canyon in the Organ Mountains foothills, Las Cruces’ signature “Picacho Peak” and numerous land transactions in the Gila and Mimbres valleys near Silver City. Most recently Sullivan led a joint US-Mexico conservation effort to preserve the Janos Grasslands in Chihuahua, Mexico. This resulted in the April 2005 acquisition of the 46,000-acre Rancho El Uno as part of this conservation area. Sullivan also directed the Conservancy’s joint agreement with the Department of the Army at the White Sands Missile Range, where the Conservancy is helping to protect the extensive natural resources found on the 2.2 million-acre missile range, the army’s largest land holding.
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