Larissa is a restoration ecologist with more than 18 years of experience in land management and ecological restoration in the Midwest. Her expertise is in native plant community assessments, ecological restoration project planning, and development of conservation land management plans. She is accomplished at project planning and design for the protection and restoration of rare natural resources.
With Larissa’s background in managing natural areas across broad geographies with scarce resources, she approaches projects with a keen focus on building and leveraging partnerships for land stewardship. Larissa’s project experience ranges from an inventory of a community’s trees for Emerald Ash Borer to restoration of rare native plant communities at Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas.