The Southeastern Grasslands Initiative’s Volunteer Team is excited to kick off the 2022 growing season! Winter was good for a rest, but we love spring and can’t wait to get together to start up the fun again! We always appreciate all of the hard work that our volunteers contribute and consider them an integral part of our larger team.

Layla Dunlap joined the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative in early January 2022 as our first Director of Finance and Operations. Layla brings with her a wide variety of professional experiences. Her educational background includes an M.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Idaho where her research focused on different techniques for growing native plants for restoration. She also has a B.A. in Biology from the University of Montana. Recently we sat down with Layla to learn a little more about her and her role at SGI.

At the beginning of the year we asked you about what you would like to see from us in regards to our communications activities going forward. We greatly appreciate everyone who took the time to answer our communication surveys. You gave us a lot of really useful information and feedback. Now that we’ve had a chance to review it all and make some plans, we wanted to share that information and let you know some of the things you can expect from us over the coming year.