Steve Wise

Steve Wise is executive director at Southern Oregon Land Conservancy (SOLC), Oregon's oldest regional land trust (founded 1978) that currently stewards 77 conservation areas, 72 of which are conservation easements, about a third of which include working lands. He led the Sandy River Watershed Council for a decade, restoring habitat in a wild salmon stronghold east of Portland, was natural resources director at Chicago's award-winning Center for Neighborhood Technology, and has led large scale community-based conservation, restoration, education and research in the Pacific Northwest and beyond for almost 30 years.