Monica Folk, PhD

Wildlife Ecologist • Wild Folk, LLC •

Phone (407) 508-0739 • Email: monicafolk@embarqmail.com

      Monica Folk has been an ecologist for over 25 years. She has degrees from Southern Illinois University, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. Her training is in wildlife ecology and management with a specialty in endangered species conservation. She has managed projects in Florida and throughout the Southeast, working primarily with red-cockaded woodpeckers (RCWs) and Florida scrub-jays (FSJs), but also Key deer, wood storks, gopher tortoises, bald eagles, Florida sandhill cranes, wading birds, several bat species and wetland restoration projects.

     After 18 years working as an ecologist for The Nature Conservancy in central Florida, in 2010 she started her own consulting company, Wild Folk, LLC. Since then, she has focused on recovery of RCWs and FSJs through state, federal and private contracts to survey, monitor, band and manage habitat for critical populations. She also manages several important wetland restoration projects in South Carolina. She is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and has been a member of The Wildlife Society (TWS) since 1986 and of the Florida Chapter of TWS since 1992.