BISMARCK, ND, March 12, 2008 - Dr. Steve Adair has been appointed the director of Ducks Unlimited’s Great Plains Regional Office in Bismarck. Adair will oversee conservation programs across the office’s eight states and serve as a 
member of the national conservation leadership team.
“Steve has shown great aptitude for forming successful teams and working with a broad range of volunteers and donors for Ducks Unlimited,” said Alan Wentz, DU’s senior group manager of conservation, communications and marketing.
Adair replaces Jeff Nelson who recently assumed the role of DU Canada’s executive vice president.
With DU since 1997, Adair first served as the director of conservation programs at the wetland conservation organization’s headquarters in Memphis. He joined the Bismarck staff in 2001 to manage GPRO’s programs in five states.
“This is a time of significant challenges, as well as opportunities in America’s great plains,” Adair said. “The demand for corn-based ethanol and other commodities threaten the grasslands of the nesting grounds, while population growth is squeezing out habitat along our migration paths. At the same time, the dedicated staff of the Great Plains Regional Office is developing new innovations to conserve more habitats, with the help of our donors and partners.”
Adair received a Ph.D. from Utah State University, an M.S. from Texas A & M and a B.A. from the University of Texas. He and his wife, Laura, have two children.
With more than a million supporters, Ducks Unlimited is the world’s largest and most effective wetland and waterfowl conservation organization with almost 12 million acres conserved. The United States alone has lost more than half of its original wetlands - nature’s most productive ecosystem - and continues to lose more than 80,000 wetland acres each year.
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