Our Team

Travis Entenman

Growing up in northern Idaho and then the northern plains in South Dakota left Travis with a deep desire to leave the natural world better than he found it. The idea of future generations not having the experience of playing in nature like he did as a child imparted a sense of responsibility to minimize the impacts of human activities. This drives him to conserve our native prairies and clean our watersheds by educating the community on the importance of having an conservation ethic. He is passionate about bucking the status quo and discovering what is possible when we give a damn.

Travis has a B.S. in Advertising from South Dakota State University and a Masters in Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School. Travis and his wife, Hannah, live in Sioux Falls with their first child on the way and a dog named Ralph.

Kent Pfeiffer

Kent Pfeiffer has worked for Northern Prairies in the Beatrice office since 2006. He had worked as the land manager at the Platte River Whooping Crane Habitat Maintenance Trust for twelve years prior to that. Initially, Kent served as a Project Biologist working with Jarren Kuipers. After Jarren left for Wyoming in 2009, Kent became Program Manager, supervising the Nebraska staff of NPLT. Kent has a B.S. in wildlife biology from the University of Nebraska – Kearney and a M.S. in biology from Kansas State University. Kent and his wife, Rebecca, live in Beatrice and have two children, Olivia and Wyatt.

Chance Brueggemann

As a child originally living in Southern California, Chance’s interest in the biological world was sparked by observing many marine biota in tide pools while going to the beach. Later in life him and his family moved to Southeastern NE, where he then attended Peru State College to earn his B.S. in Biology. Shortly after, he began working various local temporary positions for Nebraska Game and Parks, one of them being a woodland restoration project for Indian Cave State Park. This project is where his interests changed gears to the world of mushroom-forming fungi. In 2015 he joined the NPLT to continue working on the oak woodland restoration project at Indian Cave State Park and several others in Southeast NE. With his knowledge of macrofungi, he is constantly on the lookout for new species of mushrooms to ID and catalog to help understand what species exist within Nebraska’s boarders. Chance enjoys being outdoors and educating himself on how to utilize the natural resources the land has to offer.

Krista Lang

Krista Lang grew up in the forests of western Oregon. She graduated from Oregon State University in 2006 with a B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife Science. After various field jobs, she went onto pursue a M.S. in Wildlife Biology from Iowa State University, finishing in 2010. She moved to southeast Nebraska with her husband and started working for NPLT in early 2011 doing oak woodland restoration at Indian Cave State Park. She now uses her restoration knowledge from the park to help private landowners all across southeast Nebraska that are interested in restoring oak woodlands on their private properties.

Hanna Barnes

Hanna Barnes joined NPLT as a Project Biologist in 2022. Originally from Omaha, Hanna spent her childhood immersing herself in the outdoors through summer camps, clubs, and family outings. Rekindling that love in college, she graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Nebraska Omaha. She worked in environmental education and wildlife management before joining the NPLT team. Based out of Ponca State Park, Hanna works to restore oak woodland and conserve at-risk species on private and public lands throughout northeast Nebraska.

Jennifer Corman

Jennifer Corman is a Coordinating Wildlife Biologist in Bassett, Nebraska. She earned a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University and a M.S. in Ecology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She has work experience in bioacoustics, wildlife genetics, agro-ecology, biogeochemistry, and interactions between wind power and wildlife. Jen worked for Colorado Parks and Wildlife on lesser prairie-chicken research prior to becoming a Forest Fuels Project Coordinator for Nebraska Forest Service. She joined NPLT in 2017 and works with private landowners to restore and conserve prairies and woodlands in north-central Nebraska.