Sarah Schrock Email and Phone Number

Prior to joining Forest Service, Sarah worked as a project planner for the City of Chelan and as a freelance landscape designer and planner, and a writer. At Chelan she worked on long-term implementation goals for the city's comprehensive plan. She helped develop sound policy and codes, grants, and supported environmental review and analysis for the department where needed. As a designer, she worked with property owners on creating site appropriate outdoor living spaces to meet their objectives. As a writer, she contributed a weekly column for the Methow Valley News including poetry and reflections of nature and as a technical writing for organizations.Sarah brings her knowledge of plants, landcape dynamics, and regional culture to every project. She specializes in landscape design and public planning solutions who want ecological design to guide the design making. She is versed in drought tolerant, Firewise, and sustainable landscape practices and has participated in a number parks plans. Sarah has a masters in Landscape Architecture with an emphasis in Planning from the University of Oregon where she received honors for her work with regenerative design for Oregon's historic waterways. She holds a bachelors degree from the University of Washington in forestry and has worked in the natural resources and conservation fields for 15 years. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya (2000-2002). Among many projects, Sarah has worked as a regional planning consultant where she administered local permitting for regional towns and assisted in writing, analysis, and design for a variety of environmental projects including shorelines, urban design and transportation, and recreation development. In 2020 she was the contributing writer for Resilient Methow, the Climate Action Plan for the Methow Valley. She is past Town of Twisp Parks and Recreation Commissioner. When she is not working, you can find her in the mountains, carpooling her boys around the valley, skiing in the hills, or in the river.