Community Voices

Theo Ostman-Sofocli and Yonatan Axelrad are seventh graders living outside Hartford, Connecticut. They are enthusiastic naturalists and volunteer at Roaring Brook Nature Center, where they…

David Gregg is the director of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey (RINHS). David first discovered his love for natural history as an insect aficionado, then as an archeologist and…

Rosemary Mosco is a science communicator, cartoonist, and naturalist. She creates the Bird and Moon comic series, publishes cartoons in Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine,…

Paul Pouliot is the Sag8mo, or the principal male speaker, for the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, headquartered in Alton, New Hampshire. His wife and research partner Denise…

Mike Gallagher is a research ecologist and the lead scientist at the U.S. Forest Service’s Silas Little Experimental Forest in the New Jersey pine barrens. Mike has turned his lifelong…

Kass Urban-Mead is a pollinator conservation specialist, NRCS partner biologist, and the forests and forestry lead at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. After working as the…

Jeff Ward is a scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. He began his career there in 1987, after completing a PhD in forest ecology from Purdue University. Jeff’s…

Marcus Rosten is the director of Western New York Wildway, an initiative from Western New York Land Conservancy with the mission of connecting conservation land throughout the western part of…

Lee Kantar is the moose biologist for Maine and has been with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife since 2005. In 2019, Lee was award with the Distinguished Moose Biologist Award at…