Michael Scott

Michael joined The Conservation Fund in 2021 and serves as a technical resource for the Working Forest Fund team in evaluating forest acquisitions and dispositions, developing and managing forest carbon offset projects and guiding forest operations. He provides quantitative and qualitative analysis to support acquisitions, dispositions, conservation impact and management of an existing 500,000-acre portfolio of timberland.

Prior to working for the Fund, Michael served for more than two years with the Peace Corps in Tanzania, East Africa, as a high school biology and chemistry teacher. He has also worked for the National Park Service and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute researching long-term forest dynamics. His passion for forests is deep-rooted from growing up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina. Michael earned a B.S. in Biology from Wake Forest University and a Master of Forestry and Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment.