BOARD MEMBERS

BOARD MEMBERS

BOARD Members

President: Shanna Saarela-Schultz | Vice President: Ashley Mack

Treasurer: Sharlene Harvester | Secretary: Maddie Maurer

Event & Speaker Coordinator: Orion Reutzel

Website Editor: Mary Clare McAleer

Audio/Visual Coordinator: Reed Fox

Bookkeeper and Knower of Everything: Jane Zirbes

BWSR Liaison: Ben Meyer

Board Bios

*President*
**Shanna Saarela-Schultz**
**Contact:** Shanna.Saarela-Schultz@amiengineers.com
**Employer/Position:** AMI Consulting Engineers/Senior Environmental Specialist
**Personal Quirk/Fun Fact:** I am a huge bird nerd and love bird watching. Sometimes I even get distracted by birds when I’m supposed to be doing other field work. I have four small pet parrots, three chickens, and my tattoo is even bird-related!
**Favorite Memory/Experience Related to Wetlands:** Being followed by an entire herd of very friendly and curious cows while delineating wetlands in the farm fields of central Wisconsin. They kept trying to eat my backpack while I worked. It was like having my very own wetland delineation entourage!

*Vice-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!

*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.

*Treasurer*

**Sharlene Harvester**
**Contact:** shanna.saarela-schultz@amiengineers.com
**Employer/Position:** More information coming soon!
**Personal Quirk/Fun Fact:**
**Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands:**

*Event & Speaker Coordinator*
**Kelsey White**
**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.

***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.