Did you know there are three times as many native species living
in prairie streams than in trout streams? When Martha started
working on prairie streams, few scientists knew the bounty she'd
find in the course of her stream restoration work. Restoration
of stream ecology is one of Martha's personal passions and just
one element of WWF’s conservation efforts that she oversees as
managing director of the Northern Great Plains program. Martha
is completely at home in the vast expanse of the prairie, which
may stem from a childhood spent by the ocean in her native
California. Based in Bozeman, Montana, her connection to WWF
goes back almost a decade, when she began looking at the state
of the streams on the first ranch purchased by WWF partner,
American Prairie Foundation. Today, she manages an area that
encompasses five states and some of the least known or
understood terrain in the 'Lower 48.' She works with local
ranchers, Native American tribes and government agencies to
increase protection for the landscape