Heather Whitlaw Named GPLCC Coordinator
OCTOBER 3, 2011—The Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative announced that Heather Whitlaw has been appointed as the interim GPLCC Coordinator. She started her position on September 12.
Whitlaw has over twenty years experience as a wildlife biologist, and has been a Certified Wildlife Biologist since 1999. She joined the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in 2009 and is the national conservation lead for Lesser Prairie-chickens as well as the FWS liaison in the Texas panhandle. Prior to her current position, she worked with non-game species and landscape conservation issues in the Southern Great Plains with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and desert bighorn sheep with New Mexico Game and Fish. She has also worked with black bears and pronghorn antelope in Arizona. Some of her early conservation work included working with deer and moose in Canada, and caribou in Alaska for BP Energy. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in wildlife science and wildlife diseases at Queen’s University and Lakehead University in Canada.