President
Term: 2022 – 2024
Greg Eckert
Greg Eckert has worked with a range of land use and restoration issues in his career, including the Peace Corps in Nepal, the EPA Superfund Program, The Nature Conservancy and the National Park Service. He has a PhD in Ecology with an emphasis on soil and restoration ecology from the University of Georgia.
Contact Information: gregeckert1@gmail.com
Vice President
Term: 2023 – 2025
Mark Paschke, Colorado State University
More info to come.
Treasurer
Term: April 2023 – 2025
Garrett Stephens, Jefferson Conservation District
Garrett is the Director of the Jefferson Conservation District. He joined JCD staff in 2014 to support the forest conservation program. He’s had a variety of work experiences in the Midwest and Western states in back-country leadership and natural resource management. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Biology from Greenville College in 2008 and a M.S in Ecology from Colorado State University in 2014.
Secretary
Term: 2023 – 2025
Jimmy Turowsky, CORVUS Environmental Consulting 
Jimmy Turowsky is new to the field of ecological restoration, he has worked on several stream restoration projects throughout the front range thanks to his current role in environmental consulting. Prior to that he worked for the Colorado Natural Heritage Program as a field technician surveying wetlands throughout the state of Colorado. He has a BS in Environmental Science from Westfield State University.
Past President
Term: 2022 – 2024
Brock Bowles, Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety
Brock Bowles works for the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety as an Environmental Protection Specialist. His area of expertise is overseeing the permitting, monitoring and reclamation of mineral, hard rock and coal mines throughout Colorado. He received his M.S. in Rangeland Management with a specialty in Restoration Ecology from Colorado State University in 2011. Brock began his ecological restoration career in 2002 when he started leading volunteer crews on back-country projects restoring degraded public lands.
Outreach Committee Chair
Term: 2023 – 2025
Will Duggins
Communications Committee Chair
Term: 2023 – 2025
Sabrina Kleinman, Logan Simpson
Sabrina is a Senior Environmental Planner at Logan Simpson and has worked on restoration projects across the western United States. She has a B.S. in Biology from the University of Redlands and a M.F. in Forest Ecology from Northern Arizona University. Her specialties are in invasive species management, wetland, forest, and rangeland ecology, NEPA/environmental compliance, and riparian restoration. She’s worked for the U.S. Forest Service, the Arizona Cooperative Extension Forest Health program, and private consulting. Her biggest interest is in helping land managers and landowners develop sound and feasible management solutions that protect habitat.
Scientific Meeting Committee Chair
Term: 2023 – 2025
Randy Mandel, CTEH
Randy serves as the practice lead for CTEH where he finds nature-based solutions to restoring biodiversity and habitat. His team uses environmental economics, natural and nature-based solutions to address ecological restoration and remediation needs to support domestic and international business development. At Colorado State University, he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in forest biology, genetics, and physiology. He has previously served as Vice President of Technical Services for SER’s International Board of Directors
Membership Committee Chair
Term: April 2022 – 2024
Lindsay Teunis, SWCA
Lindsay has over 17 years of professional experience designing, managing, and implementing restoration projects throughout the western Untied States. She specializes in wetland habitat assessments, restoration design, implementation, and monitoring and has developed long-term monitoring and management plans for her projects. She holds a M.S. and a B.S. in Ecology from San Diego State University.
List of Past Presidents
- Jesse Dillon, 2020 – 2022
- Mark Paschke, 2018 – 2020
- Brett Wolk, 2016 – 2018
- Randy Mandel, 2014 – 2016
- Mark Paschke, 2012 – 2014