Elvy Barton, Water and Forest Sustainability Manager at Salt River Project—and a 2013 Flinn-Brown Fellow—joins Dawn Wallace on Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona, a podcast from the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation.
In a period of rapid economic growth and ongoing drought, Arizonans are increasingly concerned about catastrophic wildfires, water conservation, and water quality. Against this backdrop, Barton speaks with Dawn about watershed management and landscape-scale restoration under SRP's Healthy Forests Initiative, as well as public-policy challenges from the local to federal level.
Barton also talks about the difference that participating in the Flinn-Brown Academy and joining the Flinn-Brown Network has made for her life's work and her capacity to engage in civic leadership.