Eric Fowle

BOARD MEMBER

Representing the Niagara Escarpment Resource Network

Eric worked in the public sector for most of his career, including stints at Brown County and both the Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission and the East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. The latter for 23 years with 15 of them at the helm as their Executive Director. He now works in the private sector as a Senior Planner for Cedar Corporation – a full service planning and engineering consultant – out of their Green Bay office, whereby he continues to apply his vast knowledge of planning and economic development with their client communities. He graduated in 1992 from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, with a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies with an emphasis in Regional Analysis. Eric received his American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification in 1999 and has been involved in hundreds of urban and rural planning projects and issues over the years, many with an environmental focus. In 1998, he co-founded the Niagara Escarpment Resource Network (NERN) and brings a wealth of knowledge and passion to its parent, non-profit organization the Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP) as its Vice-President. Because of his work in this arena, in 2010 he was awarded the WDNR Northeast Region’s Conservation Person of the Year Award. Now known as “Mr. Escarpment” to many of his friends and colleagues, in his spare time, he and wife Suzanne like to take care of their old house in Appleton, spend time with their dog, and travel (particularly to southern Ontario to visit the other half of the Great Arc [of the Escarpment].