Missouri Natural Resources Director To Move To Conservation Department

Missouri Department of Natural Resource’s chief Sara Parker Pauley is moving on to a new job. Pauley has been selected the new director of the Missouri Conservation Department. With the move, Pauley becomes the first female director in the 79-year history of the state’s conservation department. She takes on her new assignment November 1st with the independent agency that protects and manages the state’s fish, forest and wildlife resources. Pauley replaces Robert Ziehmer, who resigned in July to work in the private sector. Pauley has been Missouri’s DNR director since December 2010.

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