About me
Michael Forest Spalding is the Coordinator for the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape with the Conservation Law Center in Bloomington, Indiana. Michael earned a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Purdue University’s College of Agriculture in 2005. Since that time, he has performed conservation work in 55 counties throughout Indiana. He began his career as a field forester with a forestry consulting firm and has spent the past 15 years managing over 100,000 acres of public forests at Jackson-Washington, Yellowwood, and Morgan-Monroe State Forests as well as Atterbury-Muscatatuck Training Center. Michael brings a vast array of experience on both private and public lands in southern Indiana as well as a thorough knowledge of landscape-level threats to conservation and the work needed to restore the landscape.