Karen Beattie

Karen is the Nantucket Conservation Foundation's (NCF) Vice President of Science and Stewardship. NCF is a private, non-profit land trust that owns, protects and manages over 9,000 acres of conservation land on Nantucket Island and hosts an active ecological research and land stewardship program with 5 year-round ecologists. NCF's Department of Ecological Research, Stewardship and Restoration is working with the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration's Cranberry Bog Program to implement wetland restoration at NCF's Windswept Bog property, a formerly cultivated cranberry farm that was retired in 2017. The project is in the final stages of construction and will wrap-up in late March, 2025.