Pollinator Partnership and NRCS Illinois
Eleanor Schumacher, NRCS Pollinator Liaison Illinois
Eleanor began her career in agriculture and conservation in 2010, serving as an apiary inspector with the Illinois Department of Agriculture. Fascinated by the correlation between pollinator habitat quality and bee health, she pursued studies in Pollination Ecology and received a Master’s Degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from University of Illinois in 2018. She worked as Resource Conservationist for the Madison County Soil & Water Conservation District from 2017 through 2019, where she enjoyed conservation planning, engineering, event planning, and leading a prairie management collective, the Madison County Prairie Partners. With the P2-NRCS partnership, Eleanor will assist NRCS field office staff with pollinator habitat evaluation, plant identification, seed mixes, trainings, outreach and other tasks identified as the P2-NRCS relationship evolves. For further inquiries about her work with NRCS, you can reach Eleanor via email.