BOARD MEMBERS
BOARD Members
President: Ashley Mack | Vice President: Orion Reutzel
Treasurer: Sharlene Harvester | Secretary: Maddie Maurer
Event & Speaker Coordinator: Theo Robinson
Website Editor: Mary Clare McAleer
Audio/Visual Coordinator: Reed Fox
Bookkeeper and Knower of Everything: Jane Zirbes
BWSR Liaison: Ben Meyer
Board Bios
President
Ashley Mack
Contact: amack@sehinc.com
Employer/Position: Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. (SEH®) / Natural Resources Scientis
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: During our long, dark winters I like to learn new crafts. Knitting is my current favorite.
Favorite Memory/Experience Related to Wetlands: Standing in a foggy wetland listening to Sandhill Cranes call all around me—it feels prehistoric!
Vice President
Orion Reutzel
Contact: oreutzel@ae-mn.com
Employer/Position: Anderson Engineering of MN, LLC. – Environmental Scientist
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: My favorite activities include fly fishing, skiing, bow hunting, hiking, and travel.
Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Conducting field delineations along undeveloped trails in Itasca State Park was Type 2 fun at its best! Wetland work allows me to enjoy the outdoors while practicing science and contributing to projects that enhance the outdoor experiences of others.
Treasurer
Sharlene Harvester
Contact: sharvestev@gmail.com
Employer/Position: Canadian National Railway, Environmental Officer for Minnesota and NW Wisconsin
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I enjoy exploring unfamiliar cities on foot. Must visits in any new place are local food, good coffee and a hole-in-the-wall shop. If I’m in a new country, I add grocery stores to the list.
Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Playing in the dew-kissed woods and streams in the Pacific Northwest, kayaking through marsh in Northern Minnesota and appreciating the abundance growth, life and stillness of the water.
Secretary
Madeline Maurer
Contact: maddie.maurer@bolton-menk.com
Employer/Position: Bolton & Menk Inc./ Natural Resources Specialist
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I am a hobbyist orchard & vineyard fruit farmer and gardener located in Bay City, Wisconsin.
Favorite memory/experience related to wetlands: Hiking around the Adirondacks, finding a patch of Twinflowers (Linnaea borealis) on the edge of a wetland.
Event & Speaker Coordinator
Theo Robinson
Contact: Theo.Robinson@kimley-horn.com
Employer/Position: Environmental Analyst; Kimley-Horn
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I spend most of my weekends ice fishing in the winter.
Favorite memory/experience related to wetlands: Delineating Tamarack Bogs filled with sphagnum moss up near the north shore last summer.
Audio & Visual Coordinator
Reed Fox
Contact: reed.fox100@gmail.com
Employer/Position: Bolton & Menk Inc., Natural Resources Technician
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I ride the line between outdoors enthusiast and indoors computer geek very closely.
Favorite memory/experience related to wetlands: Being able to finally find and identify native Minnesotan sundew and pitcher plants with my own eyes for the first time.
Website Editor
Mary Clare McAleer
Contact: maryclare@kjolhaugenv.com
Employer/Position: Kjolhaug Environmental Services, Wetland/Soil Specialist, GIS Liaison
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I love seeing live music. My goal for 2026 is to see 50 concerts.
Favorite memory/experience related to wetlands: Finding woody debris within peat buried deep below the surface of a sod field while installing hydrology monitoring wells. The site was a historic tamarack bog before it was ditched and drained. Always fascinating to imagine what certain wetlands would have looked like before human disturbance.