Protecting Marsh and Saving Birds at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge

On April 13th via Zoom, join the LBIF and Virginia Rettig, Refuge Manager at Edwin B. Forsythe NWR.

Virginia will discuss new techniques in marsh restoration projects and talk about what you can do to save migratory birds in your own home.

Virginia received her B.S. in Environmental and Forest Biology in 1991 from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. She received her M.S. in Wildlife Biology in 1994 from Louisiana State University working on use of agricultural fields by shorebirds. She began working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Lafayette, LA Ecological Services Field Office in 1995. She then moved to the refuge division and worked at the Southeast Louisiana Refuges complex, Cat Island NWR, and Cape May NWR. She spent two years as an Assistant Refuge Supervisor in the Regional Office in Hadley, Massachusetts before heading to Forsythe Refuge in 2010. She enjoys creating habitat for wildlife in her garden and traveling to explore natural areas. She volunteers to support teachers and STEM in South Jersey through the American Association of University Women.