Jeanette Dorner

Jeanette joined the Nisqually Land Trust in November 2020 as executive director. She grew up in south Pierce County on the banks of Muck Creek, a tributary to the Nisqually River. She has a bachelor's degree in earth sciences and also environmental studies from Pacific Lutheran University and a master's degree from the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources with a focus on restoration ecology. She worked for 11 years as the Salmon Recovery Program Manager with the Nisqually Tribe, coordinating the protection and restoration of salmon habitat in the Nisqually watershed. She then moved to work on Puget Sound wide and Central Puget Sound salmon recovery for the last decade. She is so pleased to have returned to her home watershed and the Nisqually family (Nisquamily) to help protect and steward these special places.