Letter of Introduction from Executive Director Mike Mullen

Dear Friends, Partners, and Supporters of LNRP,

Joining the LNRP team as it celebrates 20 years of cultivating conservation, collaboration, and community is both an honor and a privilege. I am honored to continue the mission of supporting dozens of community-based partners and privileged to lead this organization and its amazing staff into the next decade. Supporting our mission for the next decade has never been more important as we focus on the vital natural resources that exist from the “Ledge to the Lakeshore.”

Conservation has been part of the fabric of my personal and professional life from early on. My love of all things outdoors led to a degree in Forestry and Resource Management from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. I was fortunate to introduce land and water ethic principles to thousands of high school students as a science educator after earning a masters from the University of Iowa. With the guidance of the School of Freshwater Sciences at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, we pioneered some of the first student-centered studies of lead and mercury contamination in our local waterways. As a Sustainability Director and Principal in Greendale, I later co-founded and then led an amazing nature-based charter school that furthered my conservation mission for elementary students.

Working closely with an effective, experienced board and passionate, skilled staff, we will continue to support and develop our community-based partner organizations in their vital conservation efforts. We will strive to diversify our fundraising efforts to support the conservation projects we manage now and into the next decade. I look forward to working closely with all of our partners as we cultivate conservation practices across the lakeshore region!

With gratitude and excitement for our next chapter,

Mike Mullen
LNRP Executive Director