Staff photo from River Network’s 1993 Annual Report.

After getting by for the first two years on foundation grants, revenues declined precipitously leading to a significant reduction of staff and an increase in obligations for the single remaining position.  

“We were running as fast as we could to stay in the same place. Every morning I worked on the land [transactions] program; every afternoon I worked to put out the newsletter with something valuable for the folks out there protecting [their rivers].”

-Phil Wallin

To address the funding decline, land protection efforts grew, and as revenue from these transactions rose, River Network was able to rehire staff and expand the land transaction program by hiring Sue Doroff.