The Nature Sanctuary Society of Western New York, Inc. 

Steve McCabe serves as Editor of Nature Preserves, NSSWNY’s quarterly newsletter. He also served as the custodian on NSSWNY’s Rodger Sweetland Memorial Preserve from 2005 through 2016. McCabe moved to Buffalo in 1985 after completing the MFA program in writing at the University of Virginia and has worked for the past 32 years as a writer, editor, and publications manager for several organizations and companies in the Buffalo area. McCabe currently serves as president of Wordwright Editorial Services, Inc., an outsourced editorial services company he founded in 1998. He also worked from 2003 through 2015 as a member of the planning board of the Town of Hamburg, New York. McCabe began his environmental advocacy efforts in 1977 as an undergraduate at Washington and Lee University, lobbying for federal wilderness designation for three tracts of forestland (Rich Hole Wilderness, St. Mary's Wilderness, and the James River Face Wilderness) in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Western Virginia, all of which were subsequently designated as wilderness areas. McCabe has continued to support local greenspace, environmental protection, and stewardship initiatives in Western New York through his membership in TNC, the Audubon Society, the Ruffed Grouse Society, and the New York Forest Owners' Association (NYFOA). McCabe has also served for six years as a volunteer on the board of directors of the Hamburg Natural History Society, Inc., and was a co-founder of the Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center in 2005.