| Commission Members |
| Conservation Commission Members Mary Ellen Copeland, Chair, has a master’s degree in Resource Management and Administration. She has served as fundraiser and grant writer for several national conservation organizations, has been an active supporter and volunteer at the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center since its beginning and is an avid hiker and naturalist. Charlie Richardson has been a consulting forester in Dummerston since 1958. He is the town tree warden; in that capacity he works closely with several other town officials and agencies on matters concerning trees that may be hazards of various sorts. Ed Anthes has a degree in planning, and over thirty years experience working with organic agriculture as a wholesaler, retailer and grower. He has been involved in community tree projects in Brattleboro and Tucson, Arizona. Bill Schmidt's competence and experience is primarily in forestry as steward of Elysian Hills Tree Farm and currently president of the Woodland Owners Association, land conservation as a steward of conserved land and former regional director of the Vermont Land Trust, and regional and town planning as a former Executive Director of the Windham Regional Commission. Lynn Levine has been a consulting forester since 1978. She manages approximately 18,000 acres, mostly in Windham County. In conjunction with her work as a forester, she is an environmental educator focusing on topics concerning the forest. She has taught more than a hundred workshops on animal tracking. Lynn is co-author of Working with your Woodland: A Landowner's Guide and Mammal Tracks: Life-Size Tracking Guide. Lynn has been a resident of Dummerston since 1979 and was a founding member of the Dummerston Conservation Commission. Bill McKim, a well-known pianist, is on the trails committee. He is passionate about invasives removal and has worked hard to educate community members about this issue.John Anderson is a carpenter by trade. He is an amateur naturalist and woods rambler by inclination. He is also the author of numerous magazine articles on natural history topics. He is also a long time participant in the Putney Mountain fall Hawkwatch. Patricia Jaquith teaches in the mathematics department at Landmark College. Her lifelong interest in wildflowers has taken her into the outdoors whenever possible and fueled her interest in the environment and other natural phenomena. An avid snowshoer, her treks into the woods in winter allow her to eavesdrop on animal habits. Pat has served on the Dummerston Planning Commission and currently is clerk of the Dummerston Review Board. Matthew Hoffman is a researcher in the fields of community development, property rights, and natural resource management and conservation. Currently a doctoral candidate, he divides his time between working on his dissertation and restoring old Log Cabin Farm in East Dummerston. Associates Eugene Ferrara Dan Snow builds dry stone structures for art and utility. He is an instructor for dry stone walling workshops and an examiner for the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain's craftsman certification scheme. John Warren, Clerk, holds a Ph.D. in geology. He has taught geology, biology and related natural sciences at the college level, and has had results of his research published in professional journals and books. He has worked for over 25 years at Omega Optical, involved in the production of optical filters, primarily for research in biomedicine and astronomy. Carey Gaunt John Evans |
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