Joe Lavorini is the Rocky Mountain Region Program Director at the National Forest Foundation, where he leads a team working to promote fire-adapted landscapes, restore impaired ecosystems, and enhance recreation across National Forests in Colorado and Wyoming. Joe brings nearly two decades of nonprofit leadership in the Rocky Mountain region to his work at NFF. He launched his career by co-founding a grassroots environmental nonprofit in Colorado Springs. He went on to spend a decade at the Rocky Mountain Field Institute leading alpine ecosystem and post-fire restoration and recreation planning across public lands in Southern Colorado and Utah before joining NFF. Joe lives in the Gunnison Valley, where he takes full advantage of the 2 million acres of National Forest lands at his doorstep.