Jo Ann Baumgartner

Jo Ann Baumgartner is director of the Wild Farm Alliance (WFA) whose mission is to promote a healthy, viable agriculture that protects and restores wild Nature. She is co-editor of Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-Based Agriculture and the author of many WFA Briefing Papers. Before joining WFA in 2001, she worked on dairy, fruit, vegetable, and fiber production issues, was senior research editor for Life on the Edge, a book of California's rare wildlife species, and an organic farmer for over a decade. She has a keen interest in the conservation of native species for their own sake, and the connections between farms and larger ecosystems.  That's partner Sam Earnshaw in the photo with her.