Emmett is the District Manager at Skagit Conservation District, where his work includes developing community partnerships and advancing stewardship. Emmett supports 11 staff to develop resource and nutrient management plans for dairy, livestock, and crop farmers, implement the district’s cost-share and equipment share programs, resolve difficult landscape scale farm, fish, and flood concerns, develop new conservation incentive programs, and conduct adult and youth education activities. Emmett’s prior job experience includes hobby, commercial, and dairy planning work for other conservation districts throughout Puget Sound, process engineering for a recycled plastics start-up in Arlington, MicroGreen Polymers, and studying eider ducks in Barrow, Alaska for the Endangered Species Program.
Emmett is committed to his community, with strong ties to agriculture and natural resource protection in the Stillaguamish and Skagit River watersheds. He also sits on the board of the Silvana Water Association and Silvana Community Fair Board and operates Portage Creek Farm with his wife.
“Assisting others to improve stewardship of our natural resources has been a core tenant of my work since I was young. My family and community taught me the values of respect, collaboration, education, and perseverance; all values that are important to the work of the Skagit Watershed Council.”
