About Biger Creek Conservation Legacy, LLC and Sharon Swagger Valitzski

Expert Land Conservation Consulting Services, Serving Georgia

Biger Creek Conservation Legacy (BCCL), LLC helps landowners, partners, and communities across the state of Georgia turn conservation values into practical, lasting action. Sharon Swagger Valitzski is the owner and operator of BCCL. She will bring that personal touch that every landowner and organization in Georgia needs. Sharon's passion, drive, knowledge, expertise and communication skills can assist you with all your land conservation needs.

Conservation work for those we've lost and those we are still raising.

Biger Creek Conservation Legacy, LLC was created in 2026 by Sharon Swagger Valitzski to support the people and organizations doing the essential work of caring for land and water in Georgia, while honoring those she's lost and those she is still raising.

Her approach brings together thoughtful planning, expert guidance, experienced project development, strong leadership, and clear communication. BCCL and Sharon's services will always be grounded in the needs of the client. Each plan and every interaction will be executed with care to honor each parcel of land, every individual and the local community.

About the owner

Sharon Swagger Valitzski

I’d like to introduce myself

I’m Sharon Swagger—soon to be Sharon Valitzski, as I plan to take my maiden name back. I recently left an 18-year government career focused exclusively on natural resource planning and land conservation projects. After a personally challenging few years, I chose a new direction: honoring the people I’ve loved and lost, and those I’m still raising.

In 2018, my parents, Jim and Charlotte Valitzski, bought property in Madison County, Georgia and welcomed my little family to build and live there too. For eight years, we worked together as family, neighbors, and supporters. In 2026, I lost both of my parents within five months. They were my biggest fans and greatest supporters.

Biger Creek forms the boundary of this property. The name Biger Creek Conservation Legacy, LLC came to me as a nod to my parents’ love and support. A Great Blue Heron flies over twice a day, every day—hence the logo.

Conservation is my passion and drive; it sets my soul on fire. Managing and stewarding land, helping landowners, wildlife, and forests—it’s my jam. I’m educated as a wildlife biologist and forester, and I spent two years doing that work directly. Getting back to boots-on-the-ground work after my government career is exciting.

Legacy is personal, too. I have two children who make my heart full. Protecting wild and working spaces is the most critical part of conservation, and it’s for them. Permanent protection through conservation easements is my expertise. Sixteen years of conservation-easement work through government programs for private landowners gave me knowledge I want to put to work for my community. I had a hand in over 215 easement transactions, including acquisition, restoration, management, and long-term stewardship. This helped over 100,000 acres be permanently protected and stewarded across the great state of Georgia!

Clean air. Clean water. Green spaces. Rich biodiversity. Local food. These are the things I want to help ensure my children have. Sustainable land-use practices and permanent land protection are how I can help make that possible.

I’m a big-picture thinker, so my work is not only for private landowners. I also want to support organizations already working in this arena with strategic planning, grant writing, and other ways to help their clients and boards achieve their missions.

I want to help without sidebars and red tape—and for those who want my help. I also love to talk to anyone about the importance of conservation and land protection. And really, my kids, too.

Conversations. Planning. Conservation.

Biger Creek Conservation Legacy, LLC: honoring those I’ve lost and those I’m raising.

Experience that informs every conversation about conservation

Sharon Swagger Valitzski brings more than 20 years of experience in conservation and sustainable land-use work.

Education

2004

B.S. Forestry and Wildlife

University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

2007

M.S. Wildlife Habitat Management

University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

Professional experience

2007–2010

Wildlife Biologist

Georgia Department of Natural Resources

2010–2026

State Easement Specialist to Assistant State Conservationist - Easements and Water Resources

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service - Georgia

Sharon has been honored as a UGA 40 Under 40 winner and a Distinguished Young Alumnus by the University of Georgia's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. She is also a graduate of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership (IGEL) Program. Sharon is an Associate Wildlife Biologist with The Wildlife Society, and has served in many leadership roles - including serving on and chairing the Alumni Steering Committee and Dean's Advisory Board for the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, co-chair of the Georgia Gopher Tortoise Conservation Initiative, steering committee for the Georgia Sentinel Landscape, Army Compatible Use Buffer Program and Chattahoochee-Fall Line Conservation Partnership and the Fort-Stewart Altamaha Longleaf Pine Local Implementation Team. Her background combines forestry, wildlife habitat management, public service, and easement leadership—experience that informs a practical, people-centered approach to conservation. Her leadership skills, presentation style, big-picture thinking, passion for state and local projects, subject-matter expertise, and desire for state and local results - it's exactly what you need for your land conservation project.

Let's Talk...

Conservation is a conversation about what comes next.

Practical partnerships

Conservation work is strongest when it starts with listening, respects the realities of land ownership, and makes room for long-term planning.

Connected thinking

BCCL and Sharon will connect planning, stewardship, education, and project development so each decision supports a larger conservation legacy.

Care

BCCL and Sharon truly believe lasting conservation is built through clear information, trusted relationships, and a shared commitment.

Rooted in Hull, Georgia

From Hull, Georgia, Biger Creek brings a Georgia-based perspective to conservation work across the region. Biger Creek Conservation Legacy strives to connect family, history, and land. Sharon was born, raised, educated, and has worked in Georgia her whole life and career. Her desire through BCCL is to bring honor to her parents and the future they wanted for her, whole also ensuring the two children she was entrusted to raise have clean water and clean air for their future. She truly believes the strongest outcomes begin with local and expert knowledge, patient partnerships, strategic and big-picture thinking, and a shared responsibility for what comes next. That will be her role for your conservation project.

Let’s talk about your land.

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