Marci Schreder

stewardship programs director

Marci spent much of her youth in Wallowa County, enjoying backcountry trails and time with her family on the ranch. Interested in pursuing a career in the agricultural industry, she attended Eastern Oregon State and Oregon State Universities to pursue a degree in Agriculture Sciences and Animal Science. Following graduation, she accepted a position with the Wallowa Whitman National Forest as a Backcountry Wilderness Coordinator. During this time, she and her husband, Pete, started their family here in Wallowa County, raising two amazing children who grew up loving the outdoors as much as their parents.

Career opportunities led the Schreder family to various rural communities around Oregon over the next twenty years. Marci had an active career in the natural resource industry, where she enjoyed representing private landowners and a variety of partners as a Watershed Council Program Director. In this role, she was instrumental in planning and implementing multiple restoration projects focused on wildfire risk reduction, stream and riparian areas, and sage-steppe rangeland systems. Since 2020 she has focused her energies on independent Natural Resource contracting working with a variety of organizations in the agricultural and natural resource fields. 

Full circle is the term Marci uses to describe her and her family’s return to Wallowa county after 20 years. Marci is excited to join the Wallowa Resources team and considers it a great honor to have the opportunity to give back to a community and county that she enjoys greatly. Wallowa Resources’ commitment to people and land stewardship is unique, serving a role that helps sustain and support these special rural places both economically and ecologically.

Email: mschreder@wallowaresources.org