Tom Mullin is the Executive Director of Herring Gut Coastal Science Center located in Port Clyde Maine. Prior to assuming that role he was on the faculty of Unity College as an Associate Professor of Parks and Forest Resources. Active in numerous outdoor related organizations, he is a Fellow and current VIce President of the National Association for Interpretation, member of the board of directors of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Penobscot River Paddling Trail and the Washburn Norlands Living History Center. He has been on the board of the Maine Woods Forever for nearly 7 years and current serves as the President of the Board of Directors

Suzanne M. AuClair is Executive Director of the Moosehead Historical Society & Museums. For the past 27 years she has written extensively about the natural resources, people, events and economies of the Moosehead Lake Region, with a specific interest in placing the life, times, and changes of the North Woods within historical context. She is a long-time, award-winning columnist with the Northwoods Sporting Journal. In collaboration with community, tribal, and state entities, she oversees the annual Thoreau Wabanaki Trail Festival. She has actively served on many boards and committees within the region, including the Natural Resource Education Center, the Moosehead Region Economic Development Council, vice president of the International Seaplane Fly-In, and vice president of the Moosehead Region Futures Committee. She initiated and produced Maine’s first fisheries management reference anthology The Origin, Formation & History of Maine’s Inland Fisheries Division. She is on the Advisory Council of the Forest Society of Maine. Suzanne holds a B.A. in English, writing and oral interpretation minor, from the University of Maine, Orono. She lives in the unorganized territory near Rockwood Village.

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Isabel Lescure has been active in many non-profit organizations and has several years of experience in development and professional fundraising. Isabel is a past Board Chair of the Kennebunk Land Trust and currently sits on the Steering Committee of the Maine Land Trust Network, a program established by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. She also serves on the Board of the Boothbay Region Land Trust, where she is currently Chair of the Lands Committee. Isabel’s interest in land stewardship stems from generations of ownership and involvement in Maine’s timberlands. She enjoys combining her fundraising experience with her love of land conservation. She and her husband, John, live in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Paul Johnson worked as a fishery biologist in Maine’s Moosehead Lake Region for 35 years. Throughout his career he strived to conserve Maine’s forested lands and their associated natural resources. In retirement Paul remains dedicated to maintaining these lands, the natural resources they sustain, and their traditional uses.

Albro Cowperthwaite lives in Houlton with his wife Linda and recently retired after a 45 year career with North Maine Woods Inc. Al served as the executive director for 40 of those years. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1976 with a Degree in Parks Management in 1976 and was honored as the School of Forestry Alumnus of the year in 2013. He is also a member of The Nature Conservancy, The Appalachian Mountain Club, Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation, SAM, Maine’s Fish and Wildlife Advisory Council, Maine High Adventure BSA Board of Advisors and Nickerson Lake Wilderness Preservation.

Bryan Wentzell is Executive Director of the Maine Mountain Collaborative which seeks to accelerate and innovate land conservation strategies in the 5 million-acre Maine Appalachian Mountain Corridor. The Collaborative formed in 2015 and includes 10 local, state, and national land conservation organizations. For 15 years he worked in conservation policy with the Appalachian Mountain Club primarily in Maine, most recently as the Maine Policy and Program Director. He has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College (VT) and enjoys hiking, skiing, fishing, biking, guitar/mandolin and is a private pilot. He lives in Portland, Maine with his family.

Aaron grew up in the Bangor area in a family that loved the Maine Woods and introduced him to it at an early age. Backpacking, fly fishing, nature observation, canoeing, and the occasional bushwhack were staples of his early outdoor experiences. Aaron graduated from Colby College with a degree in biology, and then earned a master’s degree in conservation biology and sustainable development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked as an Audubon naturalist, environmental consultant, environmental educator, and the Assistant Director of a land trust. Aaron has served as the Executive Director of Friends of Baxter State Park since 2013, and also works as a consulting botanist / ecologist through his company Maine Ecosystems LLC. He is a Registered Maine Guide, with licenses in recreation and sea kayaking. Aaron and his wife Ashley live in Belmont with their two daughters.

John Rust is a business consultant with a professional background in marketing who specializes in the outdoor recreation and lodging industry, primarily in the Moosehead and Katahdin regions. John currently serves on the Piscataquis County Tourism Development Authority, and is founder of the Maine Sporting Camp Heritage Foundation and the Maine Guides Education Fund. A lifelong outdoorsman, John is a Registered Master Maine Guide and a Life Member of the Maine Professional Guides Association where he served nine terms as Vice President and then served as the Association’s first Executive Director. John chaired several of the Association’s committees including that on the Allagash Waterway, and represented Maine Guides on the Maine Tourism Commission. John has canoed throughout the north woods, covering trips like the Allagash, the West Branch and Lobster Lake, Allagash Lake and Stream, Big Black, and the St. John from Baker Lake to St. Francis. While John loves to fish and hunt, his greatest pleasure comes from exploring the many side streams, and just watching the scenery and wildlife from his classic Chestnut wood-canvas “Ogilvy” canoe. John holds a B.S. in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a MBA with a marketing specialty from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. John grew up in York, Maine, where tourism is vital, and where his family owned a restaurant, ocean-front motel, guest lodge, and summer rental cottages. He is also a licensed floatplane pilot.

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Laura Rose Day is a Principal of Source to Sea Consulting. Through 2016, she was Executive Director of the Penobscot River Restoration Trust, the non-profit organization that led implementation of the historic Penobscot River Restoration Project. Successfully completed in 2016, the project was a public-private collaboration between dam owners, tribal, state and federal government, conservation groups and citizens to restore sea-run fish populations while maintaining hydropower generation. As a result, sea-run fish are increasing and many now migrate between the ocean and inland forested historic habitat that they’ve been unable to reach for many generations. Laura holds degrees in law and wildlife resources and has served as counsel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Manager of the National Wildlife Federation’s Lake Superior and Biodiversity Project, and as Watershed Program Director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. She’s worked on results-oriented conservation projects including water quality, pollution prevention, habitat restoration, sustainable forestry and fish passage.

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