Watershed Group Names First Executive Director

The nonprofit Beaver Watershed Alliance has hired Jason L. Kindall as its executive director.

The alliance, which formed in January, is part of the Beaver Lake Watershed Protection Strategy that was prepared for the Northwest Arkansas Council in 2009.

The organization will take targeted steps to protect water quality in Beaver Lake and its tributaries. Alliance members come from the fields of agriculture, business, construction, government and recreation, as well as conservation groups and drinking water suppliers.

Kindall, who lives in Goshen, will start working for the alliance full time in January.

He most recently worked as associate director of the Ozark Natural Science Center in Madison County, and served as its education and research director from 2006 to 2008.

He has two bachelor’s degrees from Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. He’s completing a doctorate in natural resources from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he earned a master’s degree in wildlife sciences.