Big Changes Moving Forward at LNRP

To our friends, partners, and supporters:

As Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023, our mission has never been more important. We continue to work with our community-based partner organizations, stakeholders, allied businesses, and a diverse cadre of funders to cultivate conservation, collaboration, and community from the Ledge to the Lakeshore. And without you, none of this critical and positive work could happen.

Now, after serving as LNRP’s Executive Director for over four years, Tom Mlada has taken on a wonderful new opportunity outside of our organization. The entire board, as well as all of you, have had the pleasure of working with Tom, and recognize that his passion for our mission, his dedication to fostering collaborative alliances, and his leadership skills have been instrumental in forwarding our mission and preparing LNRP for the next step in our northeastern Wisconsin conservation work. We wish Tom “fair winds and following seas” in the next chapter of his life.

Our Director of Partnerships and Programs, Natalie Dorrler-Hyde, has stepped in as Acting Executive Director. We thank Natalie not only for taking on this new responsibility but also for helping to guide the staff and board through the transition now occurring; a transition that is a harbinger of great things yet to come!

With the staff/s help, the board of directors is now beginning the search for our next Executive Director. This not only includes defining what LNRP now leads in this critical leadership position, viewed quite literally, through the lens of a “changing landscape,” but also looking at what distinguishes LNRP’s work from The Ledge to the Lakeshore. As we work to fulfill our mission, we’re also looking at the vision we share with all of you about the future of this land and the waters we all love.

And we’d love to hear from you! If you have any questions or thoughts you’d like to share during this exciting transition into our third decade of community-based conservation work, please reach out to us. And we’ll keep you posted as we move forward into 2024.

Once more, on behalf of our entire LNRP team, thank you for your support!

Rolf Johnson

President, LNRP Board of Directors