After layoffs, NWF chief vows to build 'conservation field army'

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DENVER -- The National Wildlife Federation is beefing up its field staff and intensifying its push to protect wildlife, restore landscapes and get Americans outdoors, CEO Collin O'Mara says. Since taking office in July, O'Mara has trimmed NWF's Washington, D.C., staff while empowering its field offices and 49 state affiliates to recruit and galvanize a nation of citizen stewards, he said. "I really want National Wildlife Federation to be America's conservation field army," O'Mara, 35, said in an interview last week during a visit to NWF's Rocky Mountain Regional Center in downtown Denver. "We're better positioned than any other organization to do that. But to do that, you have to be much more present in the field."