Andrea Mann
Andrea retired in 2016 after 37 years with USDA Soil Conservation Service/Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). In her long career at NRCS, she served in Nebraska, Washington, and Oregon. She currently lives near Pendleton, Oregon on irrigated pastureland where she practices multispecies grazing and enjoys retirement.
Her experience includes watershed planning, fire and flood restoration, multi-species grazing, economic development, forest-range-soil health relationships, sustainable agriculture, grant research and writing, coordinated resources management planning, and non-profit management.
In addition to serving on the board of Roots of Resilience, she is currently working with an Oregon group to form a biochar non-profit called Forest2Farm.