Marla Ruskin was brought up to love the land. Growing up, she earned from her father, a landowner and forester, an appreciation for the outdoors and wildlife. Combining this gratitude for natural resources with her creative mind and marketing training renders Ruskin’s job at the Alabama Wildlife Federation a perfect fit.

“Me and my dad would fish and hunt and spend a great deal of time outdoors. It was special times and times that I didn’t even know I was learning the importance of our natural resources. Now that I am at the AWF, I can truly appreciate those moments even more than I ever did,” said Ruskin, communications specialist at AWF and managing editor of the Alabama Wildlife quarterly magazine.

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