Mark Salvo

Mark Salvo is program director at Oregon Natural Desert Association, where he is responsible for supporting the organization’s dedicated conservation staff and empowering its members to advance campaigns to protect, defend and restore wildlands, wildlife and other public values throughout southeastern Oregon. Previously, Mark was Vice President of Landscape Conservation at Defenders of Wildlife. He was responsible for multiple programs and initiatives to protect species and habitat, while also defending against administrative and legislative policies and programs that threatened these resources. Early in his career, Mark helped to enact the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act. He petitioned to list three species and populations of sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act, drafted various pieces of legislation, and managed a seminal species settlement agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.