Brian O’Donnell served as the executive director of Conservation Lands Foundation from 2007 to 2017. Previously, Brian was the national public lands director for Trout Unlimited and worked for The Wilderness Society, where he led campaigns resulting in the congressional designation of the Black Rock Desert and Sloan Canyon national conservation areas and dozens of new legislated wilderness areas throughout Nevada. He co-founded the Nevada Wilderness Coalition, the Wilderness Support Center, and the West Virginia Wilderness Coalition.
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