Diana Sheridan, Executive Director
With twenty years' experience in natural resource management leadership and a passion for conservation and the Ozarks, Diana comes to OLT prepared to carry on OLT’s mission of bringing Conservation Closer to Home.
Diana has led national teams alongside states to support agricultural regional watershed plan development lending her technical guidance as a planning expert. Prior to her national level experience, she provided leadership in implementing voluntary conservation measures in cooperation with private landowners. Before her work in agriculture, she served as an Executive Director to a local watershed organization, taught biology labs at a university, and served as a naturalist leading the public on summer educational tours in the Ozarks.
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(417) 299-2145
Larry Levin
Larry Levin has been with Ozark Land Trust since 2019, retiring from the Executive Director role after six years. Larry continues his work for OLT with a focus on communications, development and other support needs.
An attorney by training, Larry practiced real estate law and engaged in the real estate business for over 20 years. He has served as the St. Louis Office Director of The Trust for Public Land, and Publisher/CEO of the nonprofit St. Louis Jewish Light. Larry has consulted to a number of nonprofits and served on a variety of nonprofit boards in the environmental, education, community and arts sectors.
He is married to Peggy Levin and they have four grown children and two grandchildren. Larry enjoys his family, the outdoors, playing trumpet, helping nonprofits, playing pickleball and more. He holds a J.D. from Washington University School of Law and a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University.
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(314) 420-0460
Abigail Lambert, River Stewardship Manager
Abigail has worked for Ozark Land Trust since 2001. Her primary assignment is to develop and administer land and river protection in the upper Meramec River watershed. Abigail assists private landowners to find and tailor conservation tools that meet their needs and at the same time protect the natural resources of the property. Abigail was born and raised in St. Louis.
She has a bachelor's degree in Political Science from University of Arizona and a master's degree in Environmental Management from Duke University. Before returning to St. Louis and joining OLT in 2001, she served as the sole staff person with Lower Shore Land Trust in Maryland for four years. Abigail’s love of birds started in Maryland and is one of the reasons she loves working at OLT and protecting bird (and other wildlife) habitat in the Ozarks.
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(314) 283-5759
Haley Smith, Conservation Manager
Haley has worked for Ozark Land Trust since 2022. She assists private landowners find and tailor conservation tools that meet their needs and at the same time protect the natural resources of the property.
Haley earned a bachelor's degree in wildlife biology, and has previously worked in conservation in the Ozarks with the Watershed Committee of the Ozarks prior to joining OLT. She's also worked in Minnesota, Alaska and Oregon before coming back to the Ozarks.
Taylor Dye, Conservation Specialist
Taylor Dye serves as the Conservation Specialist for OLT. As part of the stewardship team, Taylor is responsible for monitoring properties held in a conservation easement and managing our land owned in fee. You can catch Taylor in the field doing hands-on work or meeting and aiding our private landowners.
Taylor began working with OLT in 2023. Prior to this, she has served in various stewardship roles. This includes a stint with the Student Conservation Association doing trail work and serving as Crew Lead for the Watershed Committee’s National Park conservation corps. She has hands-on experience doing invasive plant management, prescribed burning, habitat restoration and pouring a good cup of coffee. She holds a BS in Environmental Biology & Evolution from Missouri State University. She is an avid floater and gardener and works from her home in the greater Springfield, MO area.
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Michelle Scherer, Conservation Project Manager
Michelle Scherer holds a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management in Forestry from Southern Illinois University.
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