Great Salt Lake Advisory Council
Biographies
Dave Livermore
Dave Livermore currently serves as State Director for The Nature Conservancy of Utah. He is a 28 year veteran and Vice President of the national organization; having also worked for the Conservancy as Great Basin Field Representative and Director of the Conservancy's Nevada conservation programs. During his career Dave has been involved with a number of major conservation projects including helping to acquire over 10,000 acres of critical wetland & upland habitat on the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake, assisting in the development and implementation of the Desert Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan in Clark County, Nevada; purchasing water rights to benefit the Stillwater Wetlands near Fallon; leading legislative and initiative campaigns to secure public funding for conservation in both states, and raising over $6 million to acquire the 255,000 acre Dugout Ranch in San Juan County, Utah at the entrance to Canyonlands National Park.
Dave has also spearheaded four capital campaigns in Utah over the past two decades, which together have raised $97 million for conservation. All told, under Dave Livermore's direction, the Conservancy has completed over 150 conservation projects preserving nearly 900,000 acres of private and public land in Utah alone.
Dave received a BA from Williams College in 1977 and was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1995. In 2003 he received the Chevron Conservation Award for his land protection efforts in the Great Basin region. He currently serves on the boards of Envision Utah, The Coalition for Utah's Future, Salt Lake Solutions and the Wallace Stegner 100 Committee. Before working for the Conservancy, Dave taught high school and worked as a wrangler and guide in southern Colorado and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He enjoys horseback riding, hiking, hunting, fishing, camping - and currently lives with his wife Rebecca, and daughter Jennifer, in Salt Lake City.