Conservation Advisory Services

Megan Gallagher works with conservation groups to enhance and expand on their success. Services include strategic planning, campaign design, program and board audits, organizational development plans and communications materials. Megan also serves as a conservation-minded facilitator for public and private public outreach efforts, including local government planning and regional conservation partner summits. Megan provides reporting and editorial services on issues of conservation, preservation, compatible economic development and community development. After 15 years working for regional land trusts, land use groups and The Nature Conservancy, Megan Gallagher incorporated as Megan Inc. in 1999 to offer conservation advisory services. Services are available on a retainer, project or day rate basis. Travel and production expenses are additional.

Megan Gallagher Bio

Megan Gallagher is president of Megan Inc., a conservation advisory service. Megan is a veteran land trust executive director, grassroots organizer and campaign manager, conservation-minded facilitator and strategic planner, as well as an accomplished researcher, writer and editor.

Megan has served as executive director of the Shenandoah Valley Network, Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust and the Lowcountry (SC) Open Land Trust, and as program manager for The Nature Conservancy’s Center for Compatible Economic Development and the Smithsonian Institution’s Conservation & Research Center (VA). She has served as co-chairman of the board of the Piedmont Environmental Council in Virginia and as Vice President of the Preservation Alliance of Virginia.

Megan also has extensive experience in compatible economic development, community development and affordable housing. She earned degrees from the Columbia University (NY) Graduate School of Journalism and Davidson College (NC). She has worked as a newspaper reporter, covering politics, the environment and government for Gannett Newspapers in New York and Connecticut, and as a marketing and training executive for Polo/Ralph Lauren Corporation in New York.

Megan grew up on her family’s horse farm near The Plains, Virginia, which has been under conservation easement since 1975. She now lives on the adjacent farm, which she placed under easement in 2009. She enjoys riding and training horses and hiking in the Canadian Maritimes, Ireland and Iceland.