
Rich Wailes
Bluebird Leadership Team Member
Rich consolidates the bluebird reports from more than 55 trail leaders in Loudoun County and creates the county-wide summary report for the Virginia Bluebird Society. He has enjoyed monitoring trails in Brambleton for three years. In addition to the bluebird program, Rich is a certified stream monitor who works with LWC, the Goose Creek Association and the Willowsford Conservancy. He retired from a scientific nonprofit organization focused on medicine quality, where he was the Chief Operating Officer.

Janet Locklear
Native Plant Sale Coordinator
Janet previously served on the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy Board, with a stint as vice president and 5 years coordinating Bluebird trail monitoring for the county. She has worked in Bluebird conservation for over 20 years, joining one of the first teams formed by the Virginia Bluebird Society. She currently is the Bluebird trail leader at Crooked Run Orchard. She also participates in the Christmas bird counts and butterfly counts. Janet lives in an old farmhouse near Philomont that she shares with her husband and a menagerie of animals, including chimney swifts and brown bats. Passionate about native gardening, Janet is…

Michael Myers
Executive Director
Michael joined Loudoun Wildlife in July 2018 from his previous position as the executive director of Friends of Black Rock-High Rock in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. He has immersed himself in Loudoun Wildlife’s programs and the Loudoun County community. He is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist with the Banshee Reeks Chapter. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Loudoun County Preservation and Conservation Coalition, the Linear Parks and Trails subcommittee of the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space advisory board, the Steering Committee of the Blue Ridge Conservation Alliance, and he is an active member of the Loudoun Chamber’s Nonprofit…

BJ Lecrone
Office Management and Online Outreach Specialist
BJ retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, National Water Information System, in April 2018 after almost 38 years providing IT support to many projects. Prior to retirement, she became involved with the Monarch program in 2016, which led to joining LWC in 2016 and the Audubon at Home Program in 2017. BJ also completed the Virginia Master Naturalist program in April 2018. She is also continuing to develop her knowledge of botany and native planting on her 3+ acres to encourage pollinators and bird habitat. BJ also enjoys creating wool felt art in her spare time.

Dave Manning
Habitat Restoration Coordinator
Dave took on the leadership of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s Healthy Stream Program in 2015 and is busy rebuilding the stream monitoring citizen science network. Dave is an avid participant in the Christmas Bird Count and enjoys the many bird walks sponsored by Loudoun Wildlife. He has assisted in the establishment of bluebird box trails and actively monitors two bluebird trails. In his spare time, Dave works as an executive in the Northern Virginia high-tech community where he does not use his Environmental Sciences degree.
Doreen Varblow
Office Management Specialist
Before joining Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, Doreen worked as an engineer for IBM and as an environmental engineering consultant for Booz•Allen Hamilton, focusing on pollution prevention. She has been an active volunteer in her school community in Loudoun County, with her husband and three children. She enjoys reading, cooking, hiking, gardening, and rearing Monarchs. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Franklin and Marshall College, a Bachelor of Science Materials Science Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from George Washington University.

Joe Coleman
Bird-related Activities Coordinator
Joe is a founding member of the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, established in 1995. He led the campaign to create the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve in 1999 and in 2000 became the first President of the Friends of Banshee Reeks. Currently, when he is not volunteering with the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, he is the Treasurer and the Chairman of the Conservation and Land Use Committee of the Board of Directors of the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, and Immediate Past President of the Virginia Society of Ornithology. He was the President of the Board of Directors of the Audubon Naturalist…

Sheila Ferguson
Website Specialist, Plant NOVA Natives Representative
Sheila moved out to Loudoun County in 2009 and started gardening with native plants almost immediately. She serves on the steering committee of the Plant NOVA Natives campaign and is a co-organizer for Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s Native Plant Sale. Living just down the road from JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary has lured her into lots of new projects there. Sheila is also a Virginia Master Naturalist with the Banshee Reeks Chapter.

Kim Strader
Volunteer Coordinator
Kim Strader joins us following her career at the State Arboretum of Virginia at Blandy Experimental Farm as the Assistant Curator of the Native Plant Trail. She has 25 years of horticultural experience specializing in native plants and wildlife habitat gardening. Throughout her career, Kim has planned and coordinated weekly workdays for volunteers. She attributes her success in all her positions to the volunteers who shared their time, energy, knowledge and dedication to the organizations she has worked for. Kim’s passion is connecting people with plants and nature and being a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. In her spare…

Trinity Mills
Conservation Advocacy Specialist
Trinity is a native of Virginia and recent graduate of Christopher Newport University. Before joining Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, she served as a fellow with the Piedmont Environmental Council and worked on behalf of the Humane Society of the United States as a wildlife and animal welfare grassroots canvassing director. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Conservation Science and Policy from George Mason University alongside her work as Loudoun Wildlife’s Conservation Advocacy Specialist. She has a deep love of nature and enjoys spending time outdoors. Outside of wildlife and conservation, she enjoys traveling, hiking, and film photography.

Jenny Erickson
Amphibian Monitoring Coordinator
Jenny has lived in Loudoun County for 30 years and is passionate about preserving the natural areas in the county. She studied biology and psychology in college and had a lengthy career in the zoological field working with animals both in a zoological setting and in the field. Her field specialties included herpetology monitoring and population surveys as well as behavioral studies of grizzly bears, and participation in the red wolf reintroductions in the Carolinas. Jenny is very excited about reinvigorating the current amphibian monitoring programs as well as adding new programs to help increase our knowledge of local reptile…
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Nature, wild nature, dwells in gardens just as she dwells in tangled woods, in the deep of the sea, and on the heights of the mountains; and the wilder the garden, the more you will see of her.
Herbert Ravenel Sass