John Kellis Email & Phone Number

Hillsboro, OH, US

Columbus, Ohio

Board of the College of Food Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Hillsboro, Ohio

Joined the Society to assist in the reorganization of an organization long recognized as the caretaker of history and culture in Hillsboro and Highland County. I have been asked since joining the group to help oversee the finances of the Society. I have since taken on the development of the Scott House Mansion Project to allow the Society to preserve the.

I have returned to work for the USDA Field Office across Southern Ohio under an agreement with ODNR to develop Grazing Conservation Plans for Livestock Producers in Southern Ohio. The USDA field offices were finding it difficult to get grazing plans completed in a thorough and timely manner. Myself and co-worked and fellow USDA retiree, Dave Pqarry, met.

P.O. Box 984, 338 W. Main Street Hillsboro, Ohio

Since my retirement, I am serving the Council as its Executive Director, managing the day-to-day operations of the Non-profit public charity that works in a ten-county area of Southern Ohio. The RC&D provides support for a variety of natural resource conservation, water quality, and economic development intiatives throughout Southern Ohio.

Sardinia, Ohio

I served as the Federal Coordinator assigned to provide oversight and leadership to the RC&D Council in the ten-County region in Southern Ohio. The operation provided services to are non-profits, citizen groups, and units of government. We provided project development, grantwriting, and coordination to important economic and natural resource conservation.

Lebanon, Ohio

Served as the USDA Federal Cordinator for the non-profit RC&D in SW Ohio. The operation provided watershed management, grantwriting, grantwriting traing, and project development to loal and regional projects throughout SW Ohio.

Lima, Ohio And Dodge Center, Minnesota And Wabasha, Minnesota

Served as a Resource Conservationist and District Conservtionist providing field office oversight and direct services to landowners in the planning and application of soil and waer conservation practices in the three counties in SE Minnesota and NW Ohio. Operations included the coordination of conservation application through a variety of federal and state.