Ted Koch is Executive Director of the North American Grouse Partnership. He received a B.S. in Biology from Southern Connecticut State University and an M.S. in Zoology from Idaho State University. He served as an endangered species biologist for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for 30 years, working on all kinds of plants and animals, including sage grouse and lesser prairie-chickens. Ted resides in Garden Valley, ID.

North American Grouse Partnership is working with landowners to conserve southwestern Great Plains grasslands for lesser prairie-chickens and other species. Lesser prairie-chickens are about to be listed under the Endangered Species Act.