Organizations Filed Purposes:
Chicago Wilderness leads strategy to preserve, improve, and expand nature and quality of life. An alliance of more than 200 member organizations, Chicago Wilderness focuses upon critical natural resources management and constituency building efforts in the region that spans Southeast Wisconsin, Northeast Illinois, Northwest Indiana, and Southwest Michigan. This critical region is home to 10+ million people and 500+ municipalities, includes 200+ miles of Lake Michigan Shoreline and more than 1 million acres of important lands and waters.
Chicago Wilderness is a regional alliance leading strategy to preserve, improve, and expand nature and quality of life.
Chicago Wilderness' climate action initiative has consisted of engaging alliance members in discussions regarding climate implications and adaptation efforts through workshops and research projects. Going forth, climate action activities will not serve as a standalone initiative. Rather, climate action implications will be embedded in the key focus areas of oak ecosystem recovery, water, priority animal species, Beyond the Choir, Landowners, and development and management of a data hub.
A core tenet of Chicago Wilderness work is restoring local nature to health. Work is focused in three areas: oak ecosystem recovery, collaboratively conserving 12 priority animal species, and addressing regional water-related challenges through innovative natural resource conservation tactics.
A previous effort of Chicago Wilderness, Leave No Child Behind, formed to address the need to engage children in outdoor environments as a public health and learning initiative. Chicago Wilderness has refocused its communication efforts to engage constituents who are "Beyond the Choir". Building a long term constituency that reflects the current and forecasted diversity of the region - diversity in culture, generations, economics and geography - is imperative to ensure the Chicago Wilderness Region's lands and waters are preserved, improved, and expanded, resulting in a healthy and resilient region.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Suzanne Malec-Mckenna | Executive Dir. | 40 | $70,138 |
| Melinda Pruett-Jones | Assistant Secr | 3 | $23,202 |
| Arnold Randall | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Dave Thomas | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Deborah Lahey | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Craig Hubert | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michelle Carr | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Laurel Ross | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Thomas Beck | Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Peter Layton | President | 0 | $0 |
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