CLC announces Mike Spalding as the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape Program Coordinator
Conservation Law Center is pleased to announce that Michael F. Spalding was recently hired as the Program Coordinator for the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape.
Michael grew up in central Indiana on land that has been in his family since 1889. His passion for conservation began while exploring the fields, forests, and streams of his family’s farm. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Purdue University College of Agriculture with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry in 2005. Since that time, he has performed conservation work in 55 counties throughout Indiana. He began his career as a field forester with a forestry consulting firm and has spent the past 15 years managing public forests at Jackson-Washington, Yellowwood, and Morgan-Monroe State Forests as well as Atterbury-Muscatatuck Training Center.
As a part of his work with the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape, Michael will collaborate with a diverse group of public and private partners to achieve various natural resource conservation goals within the landscape’s geographic boundaries. These goals include land and soil conservation, water quality and riparian corridors, threatened and endangered species, and the critical goal of maintaining military readiness in southern Indiana’s four defense bases. This position is instrumental to the overall efforts being made by the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape team in providing solutions to some of the most important and challenging conservation and environmental issues in Indiana.
Michael resides in the rugged hills of Brown County with his wife, two sons, and adopted cat and dog. He enjoys traveling with his family, hunting whitetail deer and turkey, cooking, and making maple syrup from trees in their forest.
Welcome Michael to the CLC team!