Katie heads our Research division and currently manages Ranch Advisory’s Monitoring Program, collecting the ecological data that underpins the company’s Advisory and Management services. Katie has over 15 years of experience in landscape-scale conservation and has worked extensively with ranchers to identify strategies that simultaneously enhance ecological health, financial success and human well-being. Prior to joining Ranch Advisory Partners, she headed up the Sonoran Institute’s Working Landscapes Program in the Northern Rockies, was a Program Director for American Wildlands and helped get the Center for Large Landscape Conservation established in Bozeman, MT. Katie is a Kinship Conservation Fellow and obtained a Master’s in Conservation Biology from Columbia University.