Hannah Epstein Email & Phone Number

Montpelier, VT, US

Montpelier, Vermont, United States

• Manage wilderness preserves by implementing stewardship rewilding actions on-the-ground and writing management plans.
• Lead team of land stewards working throughout the region.
• Ensure annual monitoring of fee-owned lands and conservation easements by staff.
• Create maps using GIS for stewardship, land protection, outreach, and grant applications and perform spatial analysis to inform strategic conservation planning.
• Ensure tax compliance and exemption applications for fee-owned lands.

Montpelier, Vermont, United States

Montpelier, Vermont, United States

Lake Mead National Recreation Area, NV

• Coordinated and conduct rare plant surveys to inform management by the National Park Service
• Assessed and controlled invasive plants using mechanical and chemical methods
• Managed and organized GPS, GIS, and photo data
• Assisted with native plant nursery operations including plant care, transplanting, and soil mixing
• Led 5-10 member conservation crews to complete restoration work

Burlington, Vermont, United States

• Completed riparian tree planting projects for conservation organizations throughout the state
• Supported nursery operations including tree harvest, inventory, seed collection, and field maintenance

Montpelier, Vermont

• Coordinated all aspects of conserved land stewardship on 36 fee and 60 easement properties including annual monitoring, boundary marking, trail work, invasive plant treatment, and updating current use management plans.
• Performed GIS analysis, mapping, and data collection
• Supported land protection acquisitions through the creation of baseline documentation reports
• Engaged with the public through leading volunteers, communicating with landowners, presentations, creating outreach content, and field trips

Exeter, New Hampshire

• Conducted 55 annual conservation easement and fee property monitoring visits
• Maintained easement landowner relationships
• Documented monitoring visits through written reports and maps created using ArcGIS
• Stewarded lands through invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, and boundary marking

Burlington, Vermont

• Guided students on lab assignments in ArcGIS Pro
• Graded weekly assignments

Montpelier, Vermont

• Collaborated with stewardship team to manage and monitor conserved lands
• Wrote easement inspection reports in accordance with Land Trust Alliance standards
• Completed extensive trail work and invasive plant removal
• Led a group of high school interns doing stewardship tasks and taught them about the work of The Nature Conservancy and conservation issues in Vermont

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Ecoquest Study Abroad Program, New Zealand