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Livingston, MT – March 11, 2020 – Trout Headwaters, Inc. (THI) and American Conservation Experience (ACE), a Nonprofit Conservation Corps, are pleased to announce the selection of David “Skip” Siesel as the THI-EPIC Restoration Fellow for 2020. 

Skip graduated from Hocking College in 2013 with a degree in Wildlife Resource Management and held a number of conservation positions following school. He most recently worked as a Crew Supervisor for Blackfeet Forestry and Fire Management on tree planting and thinning projects in Montana.

“I am extremely excited to bring my natural resource management experience to THI as an ACE Fellow. THI provides industry leading services to their clients and I hope to contribute, learn, and grow as much as I can here,” Skip said.

The fellowship program is intended to foster creative thinking and adaptive management as well as support performance for a suite of interdisciplinary tasks. It is a collaboration of the American Conservation Experience and Trout Headwaters. 

 “We’re really pleased to have Skip assisting Trout Headwaters, Inc. (THI) as an ACE-EPIC Fellow in their important watershed restoration work in the East,” said Kevin Sloan of the Emerging Professionals Internship Corps (EPIC). As the partnership between THI and ACE has grown our interns and fellows have increasing opportunities to work alongside and learn from watershed restoration professionals.  These budding young professionals gain perspective on the importance of private lands restoration and the concepts of carbon sequestration and mitigation banking.  Equally as important, they learn that without environmental stewardship on public AND private lands, landscape scale conservation of natural resources is not possible.”

The Restoration Fellowship is intended for enthusiastic young professionals with a deep interest in advancing their career goals in natural resources, plant ecology, riparian/wetland ecology, ecological restoration, forestry, and/or wildlife management. 

“It’s great to welcome Skip Siesel to the team. I have no doubt that his contributions will be valuable in helping to advance our client’s goals. And, at a time where the challenges to our environment may feel a bit daunting, the next generation of conservation stewards and scientists – developing professionals like Skip – could not be more vital,” said Michael Sprague, CEO of Trout Headwaters, Inc.

More information via http://www.usaconservation.org/

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