Steve Saari is the Deputy Director of the Natural Resources Administration with the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE). Steve manages a talented, motivated team of professionals who work hard to protect and restore the health of the District’s waterways. Steve has an M.S. in ecology and has been in the watershed restoration field for twenty years. Steve Saari has worked at DOEE for nearly 20 years - the entirety of which with the Watershed Protection Division until now. Before working with District government, Steve worked with the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. He has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and Geology from William and Mary and a master's in Ecology from Penn State.