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TRCP Brings on Initiatives Manager

Press Room

Press Release

For Immediate Release
February 22, 2005
For more information contact:
George Cooper, (202) 508-3421

TRCP Brings on Initiatives Manager

WASHINGTON, DC - The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) has welcomed aboard Lynn Tjeerdsma who joins the TRCP in its Washington DC headquarters as the Partnership’s Initiatives Manager. Tjeerdsma will be supporting and coordinating the efforts of the working groups that manage each of the TRCP’s official policy initiatives. Those working groups are made up of representatives from the TRCP’s partner hunting, fishing and conservation organizations. In the near term in particular, Tjeerdsma will focus on supporting working group efforts on two top priorities for the sporting community in 2005: the "Open Fields" hunting and fishing access legislation set to be re-introduced in Congress and the fish and wildlife conservation elements being developed for the 2007 Farm Bill.

Tjeerdsma’s experience feeds perfectly into both of those policy initiatives, which pertain to hunting and fishing and fish and wildlife habitat conservation on private farming and ranching land. Tjeerdsma is well versed in several major elements of the Farm Bill, having served, since 1996, as Chief of the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Emergency Preparedness and Programs branch before joining the TRCP. Additionally, he has worked in many other positions at the FSA and the USDA and as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill for agriculture and trade. Tjeerdsma was able to join the TRCP as a full-time fellow thanks to an Intergovernmental Personnel Act agreement between FSA and the TRCP. Tjeerdsma grew up on a diversified crop and livestock family farm located in south central South Dakota and still owns two farms there. He is married with three children and three grandchildren and is an avid hunter and angler.

Of the work he will be doing with TRCP, Lynn said "As we look to the future of hunting and fishing in this country, and key issues such as expanding hunting and fishing access and conserving fish and wildlife habitat, it is crucial that we look at the enormous opportunities on private land. Sportsmen need to build stronger relationships with the nation’s farmers and ranchers. Many hunting, fishing and conservation groups already work hard to do that, and I’m going to try to help them coordinate their efforts so we can reach out to farmers and ranchers together."

TRCP Executive Director Matt Connolly said "The TRCP has been set up as a mechanism for the hunting, fishing and conservation community to use to work together on consensus priority issues impacting the future of hunting and fishing in this country. Our community has picked the big issues it wants to work on together and now, thanks to the FSA, the Partnership has an extremely capable professional on staff to help coordinate this cooperative work."

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The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is a coalition of leading conservation organizations and individual grassroots partners, working together to preserve the traditions of hunting and fishing by conserving fish and wildlife and the habitats necessary to sustain them, increasing funding for conservation and management, and expanding access to places to hunt and fish.

For more about the TRCP and its partner organizations visit: www.trcp.org