Christine Denny, MS
Vice President / Communications and Recreation Specialist
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Christine Denny is Vice President of Pandion Systems with 12 years experience in environmental communications and nature-based recreation planning and management. Her expertise includes education and outreach program design, implementation, and evaluation; recreation management, planning, and visitor research; ecotourism management; and fire ecology. Christine holds an MS degree in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida.

Christine’s focus is on projects that strike a balance between human and environmental needs. She works on a diversity of projects that reflect her interest in environmental communications and nature based recreation.

Christine has a great interest in nature-based recreation management and planning. She has assessed recreation impacts at springs, rivers, forests, and other public lands across the state – and turned the results into feasible management recommendations for state and federal agencies. She designed the Rapid Recreation Assessment, a predictive tool for land managers to assess current and potential impacts from recreation. She wrote the Recreation Management Handbook for the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway. She is currently the project director for the creation of the Conceptual Management Plan for the Babcock Ranch Preserve, the state’s largest public lands purchase.

She has coordinated, created, and taught courses statewide on ecotourism, specifically how to create and manage a sustainable business that provides quality visitor experiences while protecting the environment.

Her natural resource management outreach work involves taking scientific information and translating it into user friendly format for target audiences including: designing education and outreach materials, writing curriculum, and designing marketing and information pieces. Her past work includes designing bear education materials and the Bear Prepared Community Handbook for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, as well as designing K-12 curriculum for Fire in Florida’s Ecosystems, Apalachicola NERR Estuaries, and Polk County Environmental Lands among others.

She regularly conducts trainings, gives presentations on fire ecology and other ecological topics, and facilitates meetings. Since 2000, she has implemented three fire ecology education and training programs for the Florida Division of Forestry: Fire in Florida’s Ecosystems, Firewise Communities, and Florida Wildfire Prevention.

Christine specializes in designing, implementing, and assessing evaluations for environmental programs. She designs and evaluates all of Pandion’s education programs and was a contributing author to the Best Practices Guide to Program Evaluation for the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation.

Christine’s other interests include Florida kayaking and hiking, exploring national parks (she has a particular love of the red rock canyons of the Southwest), listening to live music, and enjoying life in Gainesville with her husband, daughter, and hound dog.