Karen Lombard has been working in stewardship and restoration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) since 1997 and has been with TNC in Massachusetts since 1999. She leads a TNC stewardship team that manages over 6000 acres of TNC fee land and monitors over 2,500 acres of conservation easement land in Massachusetts. She has over 20 years of experience in restoring and managing habitats on TNC and partner lands including floodplain forest restoration, application of prescribed fire, and invasive plant control. She also oversees the restoration and management of the several hundred acres of sandplain grassland on Martha’s Vineyard for TNC. She has an M.S. in Natural Resource Management from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Williams College.