Eric Hammerling
Executive Director, Farmington River Watershed Association (FRWA)
Eric Hammerling has 15 years of experience with national and regional
conservation organizations. Eric has served as the Northeast
Regional Director for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
(overseeing grants in all New England states, New York and New Jersey),
and has served as a Special Environmental Consultant to the
Massachusetts Environmental Trust and David and Lucille Packard
Foundation. He has a master’s degree in Environmental
Science/Range Management from the University of California at Berkeley,
and a bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. Eric has been FRWA’s executive director since January,
2003.
Founded in 1953, the Farmington River Watershed Association has been
working six decades to protect the River that connects us all and to
restore the natural resources of the watershed. The FRWA is a
citizen-based, non-profit 501c(3) organization at the forefront of
restoration and conservation issues such as water quality, water
allocation, recreational usage, open space, and wetland and floodplain
protection. We work with federal, state and local governments, business
and industry, and the people of the watershed’s 33 communities to
protect the river and the region’s natural resources.