Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are proud to announce Olivia Lappin has been hired as an integrated management coordinating wildlife biologist. In her new role, Lappin will assist the southern PF & QF teams with rights-of-way and energy habitat programs, and also collaborate with the seed team as the primary expert in the southeast.
“Olivia brings great experience to this position, and has worked in the conservation world across multiple parts of the country,” said Michael Retterer, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s national rights of way and energy manager. “We look forward to seeing what she can do in her new position.”
Before joining Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, Lappin was a private lands wildlife biologist with the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies in Sturgis, South Dakota. She holds a bachelor’s degree in wildlife ecology from the university of Maine, and a masters of science from Mississippi State University.
“Over the course of my career I’ve developed a passion for educating landowners and the general public on the idea that conservation and working landscapes do not have to be mutually exclusive,” Lappin said. “Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are such great examples of the collaboration between the two, and I’m very excited to go to work for an organization so focused on implementing quality wildlife habitat.”
Lappin currently resides in Spearfish, South Dakota, but will be relocating to the southeast in early 2024. For more information on rights of way and energy habitat programs in the southeast, contact Olivia Lappin at 207-807-1322 or olappin@pheasantsforever.org.
About Quail Forever
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever make up the nation's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. This community of more than 400,000 members, supporters and partners is dedicated to the protection of our uplands through habitat improvement, public access, education and advocacy. A network of 754 local chapters spread across North America determine how 100 percent of their locally raised funds are spent — the only national conservation organization that operates through this grassroots structure. Since its creation in 1982, the organization has dedicated more than $1 billion to 575,000 habitat projects benefiting 24 million acres.
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