Keith Stagg is the Colorado River Bain Senior Manager for WRI’s Cities4Forests initiative, where he works to leverage conservation finance and collaborative partnerships to restore fire-adapted forests in the Colorado River Basin. Creating more wildfire-resilient forests can provide immense benefits for watersheds, communities, and the forests themselves. Keith’s work builds upon a decade of experience promoting healthy forests and their associated benefits as a conservation forester, and as a watershed program manager at two major water utilities. He also brings experience in forest carbon, FSC certification, and a foundation in water management and ecology in the American West that guides his program.

Hailing from Taos, New Mexico, Keith is a certified forester, holds a Master of Environmental Science degree from the Yale School of Forestry, and an undergraduate degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.