Bruce Reid

Photo by Rob Howard

Bruce Reid is Lower Mississippi River Program Director for the National Audubon Society’s Mississippi River Initiative. He has been on staff with Audubon since November 2000 and is based in Vicksburg, Mississippi, from where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers directs the management of the entire Mississippi River system for navigation, flood control, and ecosystem restoration. Bruce is part of the Mississippi River Initiative's core regional team and works to build a broad-based constituency for Mississippi River conservation and restoration and helps guide the implementation of site-based conservation projects to benefit birds, other wildlife, and people. Bruce has had a lifelong involvement with birds, other wildlife, and conservation for 40 years. Before joining Audubon, he worked for nearly 20 years writing for daily newspapers in Maryland, Mississippi, and Virginia, mostly about environmental issues. He has received state and national journalism awards for writing about such topics as floodplain and river management, Army Corps of Engineers policy, pesticides and Chesapeake Bay protection. He was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Bruce is a native of Baltimore, Maryland.