Anne Bartuszevige
Playa Lakes Joint Venture
Lafayette,
CO
USA
Biographical Sketch: Anne is the Conservation Science Director at the Playa Lakes Joint Venture and has a wealth of experience focused on grassland ecosystems, avian science and private lands conservation. Anne worked at Oregon State University’s Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in Union, Oregon. There, she studied the change in territory occupancy of Red-tailed, Ferruginous and Swainson’s hawks on a northeast bunchgrass prairie known as the Zumwalt. Anne earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Hope College in Holland, MI and a master’s degree in biological sciences with a conservation biology emphasis from Illinois State University (ISU). While at ISU she studied pesticide contamination in grassland songbirds in Illinois. After completing her master’s degree, Anne attended Miami University in Ohio and received a Ph.D. in botany in 2004. During her Ph.D., she studied the spread of an invasive shrub to new forest fragments. Anne also has extensive experience working with PLJV partner organizations such as the USDA Forest Service, USDA Farm Service Agency and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and The Nature Conservancy.
Papers:
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Tracking Net Landscape Change: Needs, Opportunities, and Challenges from Joint Venture and Landscape Conservation Cooperative Perspectives