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Russ Norvell is the Avian Conservation Program Coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stationed in Salt Lake City Utah, where he works to catalyze research, management, and conservation for non-game birds, from hummingbirds to condors, statewide, and helps guide Utah’s 2015 Wildlife Action Plan implementation and 2025 revision. Regionally, Russ is involved the Integrated Monitoring of Bird Conservation Regions program, the Western Working Group of Partners in Flight, several species-specific working groups, and serves as Utah’s representative to the Pacific Flyway Council’s Nongame Technical Committee and is the current liaison for the Flyway to the National AKN Steering Committee.

Prior to leading Utah’s bird conservation work, Russ worked in the field for 25 years as a biologist for the state, NGOs, consultants, federal agencies, and has done academic research into the bird communities of western riparian and shrub-steppe systems.