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Curtis Fisher is NWF’s Regional Executive Director in the Northeast. Curtis loves everything that Maine to New Jersey has to offer and works everyday to try to protect it for future generations. Most dear to Curtis’ heart – realizing a clean energy future, protecting wildlife and the Northeast’s special places (too many to name and oh so close to millions of people), and connecting families to nature.
Hiking and Seeking Your Way to Fun and Nature
Do you need a breath a fresh air? Would 250 smiles make your day? Do you want to break the shackles that tie our children for 7 hours a day to electronic devices and TV ? That is exactly the dose… Read more >
Watch Adorable Video of Bear Cubs Playing in Road: We Need Safe Road Crossings
I couldn’t resist. Bear cubs are adorable. Could there be a better reminder of the need for safe wildlife road crossings? Check out this new video shot at Yosemite National Park. There is no difference between this scene at Yosemite… Read more >
September 11th: Finding Solace in Nature
I am thinking a lot about 9/11 lately. The 10th Anniversary of 9/11 is a time for all of us, across the world, to think about the loss of innocent life, the bravery of so many, and the impact of… Read more >
Changing the World One Backyard at a Time
Dave Wasmuth, Sabina Ernst, Anne Stires, Jose German and many National Wildlife Federation volunteers in Montclair, New Jersey are true wildlife rock stars. Over the course of six years, these wildlife rock stars–and yes, volunteers–got more than 180 Montclair homes (30… Read more >
Gardening for Wildlife and People
I love gardening. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of my father and I working together in the garden on Long Island, New York. I even weeded the garden back then (at least that is what I tell my… Read more >
Fireflies in Brooklyn: Camping Under the Stars in New York City
“Do you want to see the fireflies, honey?” That is what I heard a mother say to her daughter when I was walking in one of this country’s most urban and diverse places in the country – Brooklyn, NY. The… Read more >
Northeast Conservation Leadership: 39 Groups Oppose Dirty Tar Sands Project
Without conservation-minded Northeast residents and elected officials, this country would have never stopped the destruction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, protected the old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, or won countless other victories on behalf of nature and the… Read more >
A Moose Stole the Show: People and Wildlife Need Safe Wildlife Crossings
I can tell you “this just doesn’t happen”. Conservationists don’t organize a press conference to bring attention to a critical wildlife crossing and end up causing a traffic jam. Not even close… Read more >
Leadership for Nature
To solve today’s conservation challenges, we need great leaders. These leaders need to understand not only the severity and complexity of today’s problems, but more importantly they need to recognize how organizations and our culture have changed over the last… Read more >
An Open Letter to Lady Gaga
Dear Lady Gaga: I, like my thirteen year old daughter, really dig your music. I have been thinking that your song “dirty, dirty, rich” was written to alert us Americans about the latest fossil fuel peddlers “crack” to feed America’s oil addiction. Read more >
