Natural Areas Preservation Council

In 1951, the state legislature established the State Board for the Preservation of Scientific Areas. This official body, now called the Natural Areas Preservation Council advises the DNR's State Natural Areas Program on issues relating to the establishment, protection, and management of SNAs. It is composed of 11 members with backgrounds in conservation biology, botany, zoology, ecology, and geology.

Councilors are appointed for 3-year terms by their respective appointing institutions.

• Charles Luthin (Council Chair)
  Executive Director
  Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin
  
  
• Evelyn A. Howell
  Professor of Landscape Architecture
  Department of Landscape Architecture
  University of Wisconsin Madison
  
  
• Susan E. Lewis
  Associate Professor of Biology
  Department of Biology
  Carroll College

Appointed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources:

• Signe L. Holtz (Council Secretary)
  Director
  Bureau of Endangered Resources
  Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
  
  
• Vacancy
  

Appointed by the Milwaukee Public Museum:

• Susan Sullivan Borkin
  Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
  Invertebrate Zoology Section
  Milwaukee Public Museum
  

Appointed by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction:

• Patricia Marinac (Council Vice-chair)
  Science and Staff Development Program Leader
  Appleton Area School District
  

Appointed by the University of Wisconsin System:

• Timothy J. Ehlinger
  Associate Professor of Biology
  Department of Biological Sciences
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  
  
• Dennis H. Yockers
  Associate Professor of Environmental Education
  Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education
  University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
  
  
• Joy B. Zedler
  Aldo Leopold Professor of Restoration Ecology
  Department of Botany and Arboretum
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  
• Vacancy