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原文传递 America's Watershed Initiative Focuses Attention On Mississippi River System

题名：	America's Watershed Initiative Focuses Attention On Mississippi River System
正文语种：	eng
作者：	DAVID MURRAY
摘要：	Kim Lutz has just finished her first year as executive director of Americas Watershed Initiative, a unique-and the only- non-profit organization focusing on the entire Mississippi River watershed. Lutz is its first executive director, hired from the Nature Conservancy, where she directed watershed programs along the Savannah and Connecticut rivers. But her river roots go back beyond that. Although she was born in Los Angeles, one grandfather ran a grain elevator in southern Illinois, and the other was from a dairy-farming family in Wisconsin, so she spent summers near Peoria, Ill., and La Crosse, Wis. The AWI was conceived in 2010 by a diverse group of people who saw a means to develop a multi-sector, collaborative approach to the watershed. Incubated within the Nature Conservancy, AWI became an independent non-profit organization in 2018.AWI's board includes several high-profile barge industry veterans, including Dan Mecklenborg, chief legal officer of Ingram Barge Company; Deb Calhoun, senior vice president of Waterways Council Inc.; and Frank Morton, founder of Turn Services. Sean Duffy of Big River Coalition is a board member, as well as Corps of Engineers veterans, farm representatives like Rachel Orf of the National Corn Growers Association, and Kirsten Wallace of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association. "Our board is a very active one," said Lutz. "It has 17 members, all of whom are actively engaged in the organizations work, and I talk to at least half of them every week."
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	135
期：	43
页码：	10-10