The RWBJV partnership includes conservation organizations, landowners and agriculture producers, natural resources districts, researchers, and government agencies from the federal and state levels, as well as county and local levels. Partners pool their resources and knowledge to accomplish more jointly than they could by working on their own.
Although most of our partners work in south-central Nebraska, a growing number are active elsewhere in Nebraska’s mixed-grass prairie regions and across the Great Plains. We also cooperate with other Joint Ventures and with the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative to achieve conservation objectives on a broader scale.
Our Partners
Management Board
Barbara Cooksley
Custer County Landowner
David Eigenberg
General Manager, Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District
Dave Raffety
Buffalo County Landowner, Representing Tri-Basin Natural Resources District
John C. Denton
Nebraska Manager of Conservation Programs, Ducks Unlimited
James Huntwork
Asst. State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Kelsi Wehrman
State Coordinator, Nebraska Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever
Technical Committee
Kirk Schroeder
NE Assistant State Private Lands Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Ritch Nelson
Nebraska State Wildlife Biologist, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Matthew Garrick
Waterfowl Program Manager,Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Ben Wheeler
Coordinating Wildlife Biologist, Pheasants Forever, Inc. and Quail Forever
Jennifer Schellpeper
Division Head, Water Planning, Nebraska Dept. of Natural Resources
Jennifer Swanson
NRD/NDEQ Liaison, Nebraska Assoc. of Resource Districts
Elizabeth Esseks
Environmental Specialist, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
