​Mary Culler
Executive Director

Mary has served as the Executive Director of Stream Teams United since 2018. Mary (Litvan) was born and raised in the James River watershed of Springfield, Missouri and attended Southwest Missouri State University, where she received a B.S. in Biology in 2004.  During this time, she became captivated by the lakes and streams of the Ozarks, and decided to pursue a graduate degree in water resources. She traveled north to Iowa, where she researched stream fish and macroinvertebrates in prairie streams of southwest Iowa. In 2006, she completed a M.S. in Environmental Science from Iowa State University. Missing the Great Rivers State (Missouri!), she returned and began working for the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Resource Science Division in Columbia, assisting with crayfish research projects across the Ozark region. In 2008, she returned to Springfield and worked as a Fisheries Management Biologist for MDC’s southwest region, where she conducted stream and lake fish surveys, coordinated kids’ fishing and aquatic education events for the southwest region, and provided assistance to landowners.  In 2009, she became Mary Culler, when she married an award winning amateur fisherman and fellow fish enthusiast. In 2011, Mary and her husband relocated to the family farm in northeast Missouri. Mary then worked for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources office in Macon for the next seven years, where she coordinated watershed and community assistance efforts and provided compliance assistance to permitted facilities and the general public. During her past eight years serving as the Executive Director of Stream Teams United, Mary has enjoyed working with the many passionate Missouri Stream Team volunteers across the state,  working to advocate for Missouri's water resources, and expanding the reach of the Stream Team Program through various projects and the Paddle MO program.  Mary resides in Shelby County with her husband and three children.

Ashley Packwood
VISTA Project Supervisor/Outreach specialist - Ozarks region
Ashley Packwood graduated from Missouri State University in Spring of 2020 with an undergraduate degree in Wildlife Conservation and Management. She served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member with James River Basin Partnership and Stream Teams United from May 2020 to May 2021, and then joined Stream Teams United as our Outreach Specialist and VISTA Project Supervisor to help spread watershed education in Missouri and supervise our growing number of AmeriCorps members. Her love for the outdoors really began with her first job as a walking tour guide at a local zipline, where she met her husband. She spent the next years of her life making up for the time she hadn’t spent outside. Hiking, kayaking, rock climbing, and hammocking became her new normal. Knowing she needed to be outside, she chose a degree in Wildlife Management. She is excited to continue her path in the world of watershed care and water quality.
Emily Young
Advocacy Outreach Coordinator
Emily is a Pennsylvania native who attended Juniata College in South Central Pennsylvania and received a degree in Environmental Chemistry in 2022. During her time at Juniata, she completed an immersive learning semester focused on Aquatic Ecology at the Raystown Field Station, where she explored and strengthened her life-long passion for the outdoors and all things streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Using the skills and tools she acquired during this intense, hands-on semester, she completed an undergraduate thesis investigating total phosphorus sequestration in Raystown Lake, a US Army Corps of Engineers reservoir located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Following graduation, Emily began working as a Watershed Specialist at the Franklin County Conservation District in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where she coordinated watershed restoration projects in the county and organized several conservation education programs and events for children and adults. In this role, Emily also worked closely with local, state, and federal partners and stakeholders to implement Franklin County’s Chesapeake Bay Countywide Action Plan. Emily served in this role for just over two years before moving to Waynesville, Missouri with her husband in June 2024. Two months later, she eagerly joined Stream Teams United as an Advocacy Outreach Coordinator with a focus on a project aimed to reduce plastic pollution in the waterways of the Great Rivers State. When she’s not engaging in watershed conservation work, Emily enjoys spending her time traveling and exploring with her husband and their dog, hiking, reading, and most recently, learning the ins and outs of sourdough baking. She is excited to join the Stream Team family and to be part of positive change in watershed conservation in Missouri. ​

Bill McIlwee
President
Bill is the the president of the League of Watershed Guardians, which is a Missouri Stream Team Association in the south St. Louis area. The League is well known for removing tons of metal, tires, and litter from the watersheds of eastern Missouri. He is a Level 3 Volunteer Water Quality Monitor and presents interactive macroinvertebrate displays throughout the St. Louis area. Bill earned a bachelor degree from New Mexico State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri - St. Louis. He retired from public school teaching and now teaches in a private school. Bill enjoys doing cleanups, large and small, with his wife Janet.

Robert Viehman

Vice President
​Rob Viehman is a member of the Upper Meramec Watershed Coalition, which is working to coordinate Stream Teams in the region to work more cooperatively on stream projects. Rob lives just outside of Steelville and retired in June of 2025 after working more than 40 years in journalism at both weekly and daily newspapers. In addition to his stream protection efforts, which have included trash pickup, tree planting, floodplain prairie development, and more, he is a board member of the Upper Meramec Prescribed Burn Association, volunteer at Power of Hope Equestrian Center, chairperson of the Crawford County Substance Use Prevention Coalition, elder at Steelville Presbyterian Church, treasurer of the Steelville Trial of Tears Remembrance Committee, member of the Crawford County Source Water Protection Plan committee for the Meramec Regional Planning Commission, and occasionally helps at the Steelville Food Pantry. Rob started paddling a canoe at age 6 and loves spending time in his canoe or kayak on the upper Meramec River. He is an avid catch-and-release fly fisherman, a volunteer and member of Trout Unlimited, and member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.

Susan Wrasmann
Treasurer

Susan Wrasmann’s interest in water issues began along the Mendocino Coast of California where she protested clear cutting in the Noyo River watershed in the early 1970s while trolling for salmon off the coast. In between she caught crawdads in the creeks and picked mussels off the cliffs and abalone from the rocks at low tide. After a reluctant move to Missouri from Washington State in 1980, she found her peace floating the rivers of the Ozarks. With degrees in Education, Media, and Administration from Western Washington University, University of Missouri Columbia, and Missouri State University, she managed the instructional technology program for a local school district and taught MEd students for Drury University, retiring with the expectation that teaching wasn’t what she would do with her time. But after traveling with her husband to every state in the US and all the provinces of Canada and visiting as many National Parks as they could, she has found herself doing what she apparently knew best, educating and providing resources to those who can effect change in their communities. A member of two Stream Teams since 2007, Susan has advocated for watershed protection at the extremely local level of urban yards. Joining MU Extension specialists from around the State, she helped implement Healthy Yards for Clear Streams in Phelps and Pulaski Counties, utilizing funds from a Non-point Source Pollution grant written by Chris Starbuck. The program funding ended, but Susan, along with all the Stream Team friends she can muster, has continued to educate about watershed issues, setting up booths at Earth Day and Junior Ranger Day on macroinvertebrates and stream ecology, working with Venture Scouts to install over 5000 storm drain markers around Rolla, and giving workshops and demonstrations on stormwater and rain gardens to children and adults. She still floats the Ozark streams, with stops along the way to monitor water quality and count the fascinating creatures that call the rivers home.

Brooke Widmar

Secretary/Historian
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Brooke Widmar is the Education Outreach Coordinator for the James River Basin Partnership in Springfield, MO. She has been a Missouri Stream Team volunteer since 2013, when she helped start a team for her high school science club on the Finley River. Brooke is a proud graduate of Missouri State University (Go Bears!) where she earned a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation and Management with a certificate in Environmental Education. Her conservation career has included working for Stream Teams United, The Nature Conservancy of Missouri, and the Missouri Prairie Foundation. She’s excited to be working with Stream Teams United again as a board member!

​Board Members

  • Melody Torrey, Green Hills Riverwatch – Unionville, MO
  • Charlene Waggoner, Greenway Network-St. Charles, MO
  • Larry O’Donnell, Little Blue River Watershed Coalition-Kansas City, MO
  • Bob Coffing, LaBarque Creek Watershed Association – Catawissa, MO
  • Vannessa Frazier, Missouri Bootheel Stream Team Association – Howardville, MO
  • Larry Cain, Northern Ozarks Rivers Partnership-St. Louis, MO
  • Angie Weber, River Des Peres Watershed Coalition- St. Louis, MO
  • Steve Schnarr, Missouri River Stream Team Association – Columbia, MO
  • Allison Joyce, Deer Creek Watershed Alliance - St. Louis, MO
  • Emily Tracy-Smith, Technical Projects Advisor 
  • Brandon Lang, Project Restore, Warren County
  • Thomas Guernsey, The Clean Water Coalition, Southwest Missouri
  • Doris Sherrick, South Grand River Watershed Alliance-Peculiar, MO
  • Brooke Widmar, Ozark Water Watchers- Springfield, MO
  • Kent Robinson, Mill Creek Watershed Coalition-St. Louis, MO
  • Susan Wrasmann, Big Piney River Stream Team Watershed Association-Houston, MO
  • Rob Viehman, Yadkin Creek Watershed Coalition – Steelville, MO
  • Bill McIlwee, League of the Watershed Guardians – Arnold, MO
  • Donna Swall, Lake of the Ozarks Watershed Alliance – Sunrise Beach, MO
  • Besa Schweitzer, Miramiguoa Stream Team Association
  • Cori Westcott, Stewards of Grand Glaize-St. Louis, MO
  • Kim Dickerson, Salt River Watershed Stream Team Association

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