EKB Conservation LLC was formed in spring of 2016 to provide conservation consulting services and wildlife and nature images to support conservation efforts. Ed Boggess enjoyed a 40-year plus professional career devoted to public service and conservation. He is now dedicated to supporting conservation of wildlife and habitat, especially prairies and grasslands. His current emphasis is pollinator conservation with a focus on monarch butterflies, a species that has declined by more than 80% in the past 20 years.

Ed is a certified wildlife biologist®and retired state fish and wildlife director. He enjoys hunting, fishing, and photographing wildlife and the natural world. He also loves to share conservation stories through images and words.

Ed grew up in the outdoors on a small farm in the fields, tallgrass prairies, woods, and hills of southwest Iowa. After completing graduate school at Iowa State University, he spent his first working years in the shortgrass prairies on the high plains of western Kansas. He went on to find the "best of all worlds" in Minnesota -- with its combination of over 10,000 lakes; beautiful northern boreal and eastern deciduous forests; transitional aspen parklands, glacial moraines, and driftless area; and the still-amazing remnants of once-vast prairie pothole wetlands and northern tallgrass prairie.

Enjoy!