Amy Staffen is a Conservation Biologist with the Wisconsin DNR Natural Heritage Conservation Program. She has a Master’s Degree from UW-Madison in Landscape Architecture (Restoration Ecology focus). Amy’s natural resources career has been diverse, working for the Wisconsin DNR, The Nature Conservancy, and The Prairie Enthusiasts doing on-the-ground management of natural areas across the state, technical and grant writing, outreach and education, and group facilitation. In her current job, she conducts plant, natural community and bird surveys for the DNR’s Natural Heritage Inventory program, promotes landscaping with native plants, and facilitates climate adaptation in natural areas through her collaboration with the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts.
