Megan Creutzburg
Upland Restoration Program Manager, Sagebrush Sea Program
Western U.S. & Canada Division
Megan Creutzburg Megan is TNC's Upland Restoration Program Manager for the Sagebrush Sea Program. © TNC
Biography
Megan is the Upland Restoration Program Manager for the Sagebrush Sea Program, one of the Western U.S. and Canada Division’s Priorities connecting TNC’s people, projects and partnerships to conserve sagebrush ecosystems and western rangelands.
Megan works across seven states to lead a regional strategy focused on improving ecosystem restoration outcomes across the sagebrush biome. She connects ideas and people within and outside of TNC to help develop landscape-scale restoration priorities and strategies, synthesize and communicate solutions, and improve the use of effective restoration tools and practices.
Before joining TNC in June of 2025, Megan worked for fifteen years at the Institute for Natural Resources at Oregon State University, where she was most recently the Rangeland Sustainability Program lead. She worked as the technical coordinator for Oregon’s SageCon Partnership for nearly a decade to help empower partners working across southeastern Oregon with data, science and technical tools to improve management outcomes in the range. She moved to Oregon from Utah after earning a PhD in ecology from Utah State University. A native Washingtonian, Megan previously received a bachelor’s degree in biology-environmental studies from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
Megan lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two kids and enjoys hiking, climbing, birding, backpacking, painting and exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest and high desert.