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Wildlands
Conservation is a core group of ecologists, acquisition specialists,
land managers, and conservation planners with a common goal
to conserve our wildlands. We
believe that our organization and it’s expertise are
a critical component in the challenge to save our remaining
wild places.
David
Sumpter, Executive
Director
M.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Biology |
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Wildlands Board of Directors
Dr.
Henry Mushinsky, Member
Henry
R. Mushinsky received the Ph.D in Zoology from Clemson University
in 1973. He joined the faculty at the University
of South Florida in 1979, where he has served as Professor
and Graduate Director since 1995. His research focuses
on rare and listed vertebrate species. Mushinsky has
published nearly 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He
and colleague Earl McCoy have mentored 39 graduate students. Mushinsky
will be President of the American Society of Ichthyology
and Herpetology in 2008, has served as an elected
member of the IUCN (world conservation union) as a tortoise
and freshwater turtle expert, and is a member of the executive
board of the World Congress of Herpetology.
Shannon
Gonzalez, Member
Shannon Gonzalez has
a diverse educational and professional background with interests
in large-scale
landscape issues, wildlife ecology and wetland function. He
received his B.S. in biology from the University of South
Florida (USF) in 1997 and his M.S. in Zoology from
the USF in 2004. He is currently a Senior Project
Scientist for Biological Research Associates in Tampa,
Florida where he has been employed since 1997 and, he
also serves as President of Florida's Nature Coast Publishing,
Inc. As an Ecologist, his experience includes wildlife
habitat assessment, wetland evaluation, and extensive preparation
of oral and written documentation of his collaborations and
findings. In business, he has focused on operations
management, including real estate negotiations, financial
oversight and human resources. He has also built
an excellent working relationship with many biologists, regulators,
academicians and businesses that increase the potential
for collaboration on many different levels.
P.
Daniel Alberdi, Jr., Member
Danny received his B.S. in Biology
from Florida State University in 1981, a M.S. in Biological
Oceanography from the University of South Florida’s School of
Marine Science in 1990, and his J.D. from the Stetson
University College of Law in 2001. Danny’s professional
career included two stints at the Environmental Protection
Commission of Hillsborough County (EPC) where he originally
worked as an environmental scientist in the Wetlands
Management Division handling wetlands and sovereign submerged
lands related reviews, as well as development plan reviews.
During this initial tenure, Danny served on various advisory
committees, including the Tampa Port Authority’s
(TPA) Submerged Lands Management Committee, the TPA’s
Dredge Review Committee, the Army Corps of Engineers
Migratory Bird Committee, the Cockroach Bay Restoration
Alliance, and the Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve Management
Advisory Team. During his most recent tenure at the EPC,
Danny served as the Assistant Director of the Wetlands
Management Division, where he was charged with oversight
of wetlands related permitting for HillsboroughCounty.
He also helped draft and implement one of the State’s
most comprehensive mangrove protection rules during this
period. He worked at the Tampa law firm ofMacfarlane
Ferguson and McMullen from 2001 through 2004 specializing
in the practice of environmental and land use law, and
served on the Citizens Environmental Advisory Committee
in 2002. His interests include environmental planning
and policy.
Heidi Bogardus
McCree, Member
Heidi Bogardus McCree
of Tampa is an attorney and former executive director of
the Hillsborough River Greenways Task Force. She was appointed
to the Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing
Board from September 2000 - April 2008. In 2005, she was
elected as the District's first female Chairperson. She also
served as founder and Chair of the District's Basin Board
Land Resources Committee and served as the District's liaison
to the Florida Greenways and Trails Council and TampaBay
Estuary Program. Additionally, McCree was a member of the
Southwest Florida Water Management District's Governing
Board Planning Committee, and chair of the Resource Management
and Development Committee. She was the chair ex officio of
the Hillsborough River Basin Board. She is a founding Board
member and current President of the Tampa Bay Conservancy.
She also serves as President of the effort to reauthorize
Hillsborough County's Environmental Land acquisition program
(ELAPP). She is anactive member of the Florida Alliance of
Land Trusts. McCree received a Bachelor of Arts in political
science from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and a juris doctor
from George Mason University School of Law in 1992. She received
professional certification from the Florida Conflict Resolution
Consortium in 1996 for negotiating and resolving public disputes.
McCree served for four years as the executive director of
the Hillsborough River Greenways Task Force. Previously,
she worked for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection,
and for two governors of Maryland in their Chesapeake Bayand
Save Our Streams programs. She is a member of Leadership
Florida Class XXV. She was a member of the Tampa Bay Partnership
Vision 21 and One Bay efforts as well as the Hillsborough
County Bar Association, Hillsborough Association of Women
Lawyers, Hillsborough County League of Women Voters and the
Water Issues Coalition. She is a Junior League sustaining
member and is involved in her children's school and church
activities.
Associates
Dr.Reed Bowman www.archbold-station.org
Dr. Brian Ormiston bormisto@tampabay.rr.com
Dr. Scott Emery ehi@prodigy.net
George L. Heinrich Heinrich
Ecological Services
Wildlife Fellowship, Inc. www.wildfellow.org
Stite and Assoc. Land Management Services jrstite@aol.com
Starkey Ranch www.starkey-ranch.com
Scheda Ecologial Services www.scheda.com
Biological Research Associates www.biologicalresearch.com
Lemon Bay Conservancy www.lemonbayconservancy.org
Florida Audubon Society www.audubonofflorida.org
Hillsborough River Watershed Alliance www.hrwa-fl.org
Tampa Audubon Society www.tampaaudubon.org
Tampa Bay Conservancy www.tampabayconservancy.org
CF Industries, www.cfindustries.com
Connerton Development, Inc., www.connerton.tampa4u.com
Tampa Electric Company www.tampaelectric.com
Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc., www.glatting.com
Gulf Coast Conservancy www.gulfcoastconservancy.org
Florida Defenders of Wildlife www.defenders.org
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