Ecologist

Keith is a conservation ecologist committed to effective habitat restoration. His experience includes planning and implementing restoration, land stewardship, and monitoring projects emphasizing adaptation and collaboration.

Before joining SOFRC, Keith was The Nature Conservancy’s Southwest Oregon Field Ecologist for 13 years, covering local forest, prairie, and wetland systems. Prior to that, he worked for the Forest Service’s Sierra Nevada Research Center in northern California and completed graduate research at OSU tracking fuels treatments in the Applegate Valley.

As the SOFRC Information and Monitoring Manager, he actively works with our RFP partners on a wide range of projects, including landscape-scale planning, multiparty monitoring, geospatial tracking, and map creation. A background in agriculture and social service broadens his perspective on our work.