Katie manages Ranch Advisory Partner’s Monitoring and Advisory Programs, guiding the

collection and use of the ecological data that underprins the company’s advisory and

management services, as well as overseeing the development of operational tools such as

grazing and drought plans, capacity analysis, and stock flow plans. Katie has been with Ranch

Advisory for over a decade and has over 20 years experience in landscape- scale natural

resource management. She has worked extensively with ranchers to identify strategies that

simultaneously enhance ecologocial health health, financial success, and human well-being.

She is currently also the Treasury Chair for the Plank Stewardship Initiative’s Board of

Directors, a small foundation committed to supporting innovative solutions and younger

generations operating at the intersection of agriculture and conservation. Prior to joining

Ranch Advisory Partner’s, she heading up the Sonoran Institute’s Working Landscapes

Program in the Northern Rockies, helped to found the High Plains Grasslands Alliance in

Northeastern New Mexico, was a Program Director for American Wildlands and helped get the

Center for Large Landscape Consercation established in Bozeman, MT. Katie is a Kinship

Conservation Fellow and obtained a Master’s in Conservation Biologoy from Columbia

University.