Photo: Golden-winged Warbler, Arni Stinnissen/Audubon Photography Awards

When: Tuesday, September 16, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: Virtual
Fee: FREE

The Virginia Wildlife Action Plan is a statewide conservation plan for plants and wildlife. It involves input from experts, conservation stakeholders, tribal partners and many others. It provides a framework that outlines threats to Virginia's most imperiled wildlife and conservation actions to help those species recover. There are currently 89 bird species included in the Virginia Wildlife Action Plan as species of greatest conservation need (SGCN.) Many of these are demonstrating steep declines in populations, but we still don't know the exact reasons for their declines. Many however, are showing some marked improvements and on the ground conservation actions are showing positive results. This presentation will explain a bit about the Wildlife Action Plan, talk about our avian SGCN and show some examples of successes.

Jeff Trollinger has worked with or for the Department (DWR) since 1987 where he began as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech. Jeff is originally from Luray, Virginia. He has B.S. in Wildlife Management from VA Tech, a second B.S. Human Resource Management from Bluefield College and a Graduate Certificate from the Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls in Wildlife Recreation and Nature Tourism in 2009. He helped develop DWR’s Watchable Wildlife Program, managed the program for 10 years and led the team that developed the VA Birding and Wildlife Trail. He led the development of major portions of the Agency’s Inclusive Excellence Strategic Plan and DWR’s Wildlife Viewing Plan. In addition to managing the Watchable Wildlife Program he served as the Deputy Director for the Agency’s Bureau of Wildlife Resources for 8 years, and as the Assistant Chief of the Aquatic Wildlife Resources Division for 6 years and as the Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator for the past three years.

He has co-authored four publications for which he has received several regional and national awards, and he co-edited a publication with the Colorado Division of Wildlife on Wildlife Viewing and Photography Blinds. Jeff is married to a wonderful husband and they have four four-legged children and recently moved to their retirement home in Nelson County!!

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