Speaker Profile
Paula Swedeen
Policy director, Conservation Northwest
IN-PERSON APPEARANCE
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Paula Swedeen, Ph.D. is Conservation Northwest’s policy director, working out of Olympia. She represents us on wildlife and wildlands policy issues at the state capitol and beyond, including wolf conservation, forest policy and more. Paula has worked on habitat conservation issues around the Pacific Northwest for 24 years, and even served on Conservation Northwest’s board in the early 1990s. She worked for 12 years as a wildlife biologist and endangered-species policy analyst with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Washington Department of Natural Resources, and now serves on Washington’s Forest Practices Board and Wolf Advisory Board.
