Leadership Team
Southeast Wisconsin Land Conservancy
Marlin Johnson
President
Marlin Johnson, President: Marlin is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Biology having retired in 1997 after teaching for 30 years at the University of Wisconsin at Waukesha. Besides his teaching responsibilities he also served as Resident Director/Manager of the UW-Waukesha’s 98-acre Field Station, a position he continued for 29 years after his retirement from teaching. His major activities at the Field Station were restoring old farm fields to prairies and woodlands.
Marlin was a co-founder of the Waukesha County Land Conservancy and the Southeast Wisconsin Land Conservancy, Kettle Moraine Natural History Association, and Waukesha Environmental Action League.
Art Kitchen
Treasurer
Art is retired from a career with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), serving as a regional wildlife biologist in the Wisconsin Private Lands Office from 1992-2011. In this capacity, Art’s primary duties were to restore and manage wetlands, grasslands and oak savanna habitat on private lands, and help the USDA-NRCS to administer the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP).
Prior to 1992, Art worked in Kentucky and Missouri as District Conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service from 1979-1992. Art worked in Southeast Wisconsin from 1992-2011.
Jim Reimer
Secretary
Jim is a retired (2011) wildlife biologist who served with various agencies since the early seventies which are dedicated to the management, preservation, and acquisition of Wisconsin’s land and water resources. Most recently (past twenty-five years), Jim has worked with the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources – Private Lands Program, USDA/ NRCS Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Wisconsin Waterfowl Ass’n, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
Responsibilities included the restoration, management, and protection of wetlands, prairies, and oak savannas on private lands.
