Jeffery Sole
Director of Science and Stewardship
The Nature Conservancy –
Education: BS
in Wildlife Management from Eastern
MS in Biology from Eastern Kentucky
University ‑ 1981, Thesis project was conducting a floristic and plant
ecology study at Lilley Cornett Woods, Appalachian Ecological Research Station,
Letcher County, Kentucky.
Work History: Botanist for the KY Nature Preserves Commission on
the Western Coal Field Studies ‑ 1980
Environmental Specialist with
Division of Water ‑ 1981‑82
Sr. Wildlife Biologist, KY Department of
Fish and Wildlife Resources, Environmental Section ‑ 1982‑85
Upland Game Program Coordinator, KY
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources 1986‑2000.
Primary duties included overseeing small game
research, surveys and regulatory promulgation; and developing and coordinating
the departments private lands technical guidance efforts.
The Nature Conservancy – Kentucky
Chapter, Director of Science and Stewardship 2000 – present.
Primary duties include overseeing
management of TNC landholdings in