Pete Quasius has been an environmental policy advocate in Florida for more than three decades and is a registered lobbyist. Foreign Service Pete retired to a family home on Bonita Beach and immersed himself in environmental activities and local political affairs. He became an instructor for the Florida Master Naturalist Program and earned a USGC masters license. He worked for Everglades Angler Ou
tfitters and established Time’s Fly’N Charters as an ORVIS fishing guide. He became active in environmental and professional organizations concerned with water issues including the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program, the Coastal Conservation Association, the Florida and Lee County Professional Guides Associations, the Southwest Florida Watershed Council, the Agency for Estero Bay Management and the Caloosahatchee Citizens Association/RiverWatch/Waterkeepers and has been on the board of the Snook and Gamefish Foundation since 2009. He was elected Vice Chair of the Board of Angler Action in 2013. He has served as a member of the South Florida Water Management District’s Water Resources Advisory Committee, the advisory committee for Babcock Ranch Preserve and as program coordinator for Business People United for Political Action. He is currently the advocacy director for Audubon Western Everglades, an advisor to the Water School at FGCU, president of the SW Florida chapter of the Izaak Walton League and is also on the board of directors of Peace River and Southwest Florida Audubon chapters, and Eco-Voice. Pete advocates for protection and recovery efforts in the Greater Everglades including Lake Okeechobee, the Caloosahatchee basin and Florida coastal waters. After years of making his home on the shores of the Caloosahatcee, he now resides in Babcock Ranch with his wife Maria.
