Biobased Industry Outlook Conference
August 29-30, 2005
Iowa State University - Ames, IA
Rich Leopold
Richard Leopold is the executive director of the Iowa Environmental Council, a nonprofit coalition made up of 76 organizations and over 600 individual members working to improve Iowa's natural environment. Leopold has held a variety of biologist, naturalist, and administrative positions within the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the Minnesota and Iowa Department of Natural Resources. From 1999-2002, he served as the coordinator for IOWATER, Iowa's statewide volunteer water-quality monitoring program.
Leopold holds degrees in biology from Minnesota State University and Central Lakes College in Brainerd, Minnesota, and has just finished his master's degree in natural resources ecology and management from Iowa State University. Richard is active in many conservation organizations, is the past chairperson of the Iowa Conservation Education Council and is a past recipient of the Izaak Walton League of America's "National Honor Roll Award."
