Past Executive Director, Watershed Committee of the Ozarks
Loring Bullard served for twenty-three years as executive director for the Watershed Committee of the Ozarks, a not-for-profit water quality protection group. Prior to that, he was an environmental health supervisor at the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. He has a master's degree in natural and applied science and taught environmental science and aquatic biology courses at Drury University from 2010 to 2015. He has published three water-related books: one for the Watershed Press titled Consider the Source; A History of the Springfield Public Water Supply; one for the University of Missouri Press titled Healing Waters: Missouri’s Historical Mineral Springs and Spas, and one for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources called Springs of Greene County. He has a lifelong love of water and enjoys canoeing and fishing on Ozark streams. Loring has two daughters and lives in Springfield.