Omar is a soil scientist, grazier, artist, and National Geographic Explorer whose work sits at the intersection of ecology, agriculture, and wild landscapes. As Wilding Director at Mad Agriculture, he leads habitat reconstruction across working farm landscapes. He is the founder of the Wild Grid, a framework for functionally connected, multi-use perennial habitat across US agricultural landscapes and a model for how working lands worldwide can become the primary vehicle for biodiversity recovery at continental scales. Rather than removing human presence from the land, his approach targets marginal, sub-profitable acres where the economic case for row cropping has already collapsed, allowing native vegetation to recover without asking farmers to sacrifice income. Omar farms and creates in Wisconsin's Driftless Region.