STCP Council of Chiefs
Greg Septon
Greg was with the Milwaukee Public Museum for over 25 years creating exhibits and organizing public programs. He directed the Museum's Natural History Outreach Section and managed its’ Natural History Lecture Series, International Travel/Tour Program and Environmental/Art Exhibits. He also served as the Museum's delegate to the Natural History Committee of the International Council of Museums.
Greg organized and led several museum collecting expeditions and spent four springs along Alaska's arctic coast, living with the native Inupiaqs photographing, collecting, and painting birds. He also conducted fieldwork in Tasmania and in the Australian outback, as well as in the rain forests of Costa Rica.
For the past 28 years he has directed and managed a successful and expanding urban Peregrine Falcon recovery effort in Wisconsin and has banded nearly 900 wild-produced peregrines. Working in conjunction with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Office of International Affairs, he also implemented an urban Peregrine Falcon recovery program in Russia and was involved with initiating a similar program in Poland.
Greg served on the Research and Conservation Committee of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee County and as Vice President of the Artists for Nature Foundation. He also served on the Executive Board of the Raptor Education Foundation, was founder and Chairman of the Wisconsin Peregrine Society and past leader of the State of Wisconsin Peregrine Falcon Recovery Team. He is also an elected Fellow of the Explorer's Club.
He has lectured in 17 countries and published over 70 articles on museum techniques, birds, and natural history. In his spare time he enjoys leisure time with his family and grouse and quail hunting on the prairies and grasslands of the Great Plains. Greg has served on the STCP Council since 1992. He also serves as Executive Director and Vice President & Chairman of STCP’s Projects & Research Committee.
In 2014, he received the Noel J. Cutright Conservation Award from the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to bird conservation in Wisconsin and was presented for his
work with endangered and threatened species. Past recipients include the International Crane Foundation and the Wisconsin DNR Bureau of Endangered Resources.
With the dissolution of STCP and transfer of assets to the G. M. Sutton Avian Research Center, Greg became a member of their Board of Directors and will assist in the Center’s expanded prairie grouse conservation efforts.
