Sara Parker Pauley

Sara Parker Pauley is the director of the Missouri Department of Conservation[1] and former president of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies.[2] In each of those roles she was the first woman to serve.[3]

Sara Parker Pauley
9th Director of the Missouri Department of Conservation
Assumed office
1 November 2016
Preceded byRobert Ziehmer
Director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Retired
In office
2010–2016

Education

Pauley grew up in Columbia, Missouri[4] and was interested in conservation from a young age.[5] She received her secondary education at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri.[6] Pauley attended the University of Missouri earning both a bachelor's degree in journalism and a law degree.[1]

Career

After her education, Pauley worked for the conservation engagement company D.J. Case & Associates[7] and as a policy analyst for the Missouri Department of Conservation.[1] In 2010, Pauley was appointed to serve as director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources,[1][8] a position she held for six years.[6] In 2016, Pauley was appointed as director of the Missouri Department of Conservation,[9][10][7] a position she retains as of 2022.[1] She is the first woman to hold the position of director.[11] She has led the effort to establish the Boone County Nature School at Three Creeks Conservation Area.[12] and views this as one of her favorite projects.[4]

In 2020 she was elected to a one-year term as president of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies.[3][13][14]

Pauley has also served as an executive-in-residence at the University of Missouri.[15] She has spoken about water quality issues and natural areas while in that role.[16]

Pauley has talked about her work in multiple venues. In 2021, she elaborated about the collaborative effort needed for conservation efforts in an article in a Nature Conservancy publication,[5] and shared changes in how people think about conservation.[17] She spoke before the United States Senate in support of the 2021 Recovering America's Wildlife Act,[18][19][20] and has worked with Senator Roy Blunt to share the bill with people from Missouri.[21]

Parker is included in a 2021 book by Francis Nenik that details the administration of Donald Trump.[22]

Awards and honors

In 2012 Pauley was named one of two "Conservation Partners of the Year" by Bass Pro Shops.[23][24] In 2016, she received the President's Award from the Environmental Council of States.[25] In 2017, the Columbia Public Schools Foundation named Pauley as an outstanding alumni.[26] In 2019 she accepted the Governor's Award for Innovation on behalf of the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Discover Nature Schools program.[27]

References
  1. "Director Sara Parker Pauley". Missouri Department of Conservation. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. "Sara Parker Pauley Elected 2020-2021 President of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies". Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies. 15 September 2020.
  3. "AFWA elects Sara Parker Pauley as president". The Wildlife Society. 16 September 2020.
  4. "Sara Parker Pauley". COMO Magazine. 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  5. "Missouri Conservation is a Shared Responsibility" (PDF). Vol. 19. The Nature Conservancy. 2019. p. 7. Retrieved January 22, 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  6. Gabert, Shelley (9 January 2017). "Sara Parker Pauley: A Trailblazer for Conservation". Her Magazine.
  7. Rendall, Jessica (28 September 2016). "Sara Parker Pauley named to lead Department of Conservation". Columbia Missourian.
  8. "Gov. Nixon selects Sara Parker Pauley as director of Missouri Department of Natural Resources". Missouri Wildlife. Vol. 72, no. 1. 2011. p. 28-29. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  9. Wagner, Micki (October 3, 2016). "Bozoian appointed new director of Department of Natural Resources". Columbia Missourian. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  10. "Sara Parker Pauley Selected as Missouri's New Director for Department of Conservation". Hunting, shooting, fishing and adventure for women by women. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  11. Nelson, Alisa (2016-09-29). "First female named as Missouri Department of Conservation Director". Missourinet. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  12. McKinney, Roger (October 22, 2021). "Boone County Nature School goes from vision to verge of reality". Columbia Daily Tribune. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  13. Johnson, Wes (September 19, 2020). "MDC chief to lead Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies". Springfield News-Leader. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  14. Slayton, Margaret (September 27, 2020). "MDC director adds to her achievements". News-Press NOW. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  15. "College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources // Sara Parker Pauley". cafnr.missouri.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  16. Shaver, Shannon (October 5, 2016). "Natural resources director to speak on water quality in Columbia". KOMU 8. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  17. McKean, Andrew (2021-06-16). "Q&A: New President of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies Talks About an Evolving Conservation Model". Outdoor Life. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  18. Fischler, Jacob (11 December 2021). "Billions targeted to state wildlife conservation under bipartisan push in Congress". Kansas Reflector. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  19. Gerber, Cameron (2021-12-09). "Blunt advocates for wildlife recovery bill on Capitol Hill". The Missouri Times. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  20. Brown, Alex (2021-03-05). "A bipartisan push could change state wildlife protection". Michigan Advance. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  21. Anderson, Clayton (November 5, 2021). "Blunt touts conservation bill". News-Press NOW. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  22. Nenik, Francis (2021-04-01). Tagebuch eines Hilflosen: Skizzen aus dem Amerika Donald Trumps (in German). Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7518-0030-3.
  23. "Bass Pro Names Conservation Partners of 2012". Fishing Reports and Forum | BigFishTackle.Com. 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  24. Riehl, F. (2013-01-10). "Bass Pro Shops Awards Conservation Partners Of The Year". AmmoLand.com. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  25. "President's Award". The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS). Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  26. "CPSF Honors 2017 Hall of Leaders". Columbia Public Schools Foundation. 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  27. "MDC Discover Nature Schools wins Governor's Award for Innovation". Missouri Department of Conservation. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
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