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Karen Lombard

Director of Stewardship and Restoration

Massachusetts

Headshot of Karen Lombard standing in front of a tree trunk.

Karen Lombard Karen Lombard, director of stewardship and restoration for TNC in Massachusetts. © Karen Lombard

Areas of Expertise

Stewardship, Restoration, Land Management, Ecology

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Biography

Karen Lombard is the Director of Stewardship and Restoration for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Massachusetts and has been working in stewardship and restoration with the organization since 1997. She leads a stewardship team that manages 8,000 acres of TNC fee land and monitors 2,500 acres of conservation easement land in the state.

Karen has nearly 30 years of experience in restoring and managing habitats on TNC and partner lands including floodplain forest restoration, application of prescribed fire and invasive plant control. She co-leads a regional network focused on improving management in coastal sandplain grassland ecosystems and is the chair of the Massachusetts Invasive Plant Advisory Group plant evaluation subcommittee. In 2021, Karen led a team of TNC managers in the creation of a guidance document on managing for climate resilience on TNC lands. 

She has an M.S. in Natural Resource Management from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Williams College.

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