Greg McLaughlin

Greg McLaughlin joined Washington Water Trust as a Project Manager in 2006. He opened WWT’s Eastern Washington field office in 2008 and is currently the Program Director for work in the Yakima, Klickitat, Walla Walla, and Upper Columbia Basin watersheds. Greg’s projects have added over 30 cubic feet/second and 8,000 acre-feet/year in long term or permanent stream flows in places like Icicle Creek, the Upper Yakima basin, and the Okanogan Basin, among others. Greg engages in statewide collaborative conservation efforts, such as the Icicle Work Group, to build projects and partnerships that improve the relationship between human and natural communities. His work and leadership focuses on continuing to build Washington Water Trust as a statewide leader in innovative, impactful, and achievable responses to water resource challenges.

Greg’s career prior to joining WWT includes ten years working in collaborative conservation, including implementation of irrigation efficiency projects in northern Colorado, sustainability planning with local governments in Missouri and Colorado, and as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer working with communities along the Mekong River between Laos and Thailand. He has degrees in biology and environmental science from The Colorado College and an M.S. in Environmental Management with an emphasis on Social Ecology and Community Development from the Yale School of the Environment.