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Board of Trustees

(Alphabetical by last name.)

Mr. Edward A. Ames, Secretary
   New York, New York
Trustee, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust; Chairman of the Board, Hudson River Foundation; Member of the Governing Council, The Wilderness Society; Member of the Board, Open Space Institute; Member of the Board, Wave Hill

Mr. Steven M. Benardete, Vice Chair
   Amenia, New York
Board of Directors, Dutchess Land Conservancy; Board of Directors, Foundation for Community Health, Sharon, Connecticut

Dr. Stephen R. Carpenter, Chair
   Madison, Wisconsin
Stephen Alfred Forbes Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Board of Directors, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics; Co-Editor-in-Chief, "Ecosystems"

Dr. Sallie W. Chisholm, Treasurer
   Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lee and Geraldine Martín Professor of Environmental Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Director, The Earth System Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mr. Charles H. Collins
   Cambridge, Massachusetts
Managing Director, The Forestland Group LLC; Director, Orvis/Cushman Wakefield; Director, World Forestry Center; Director, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership; Director, Great Mountain Forest Corporation; External Advisory Board, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale University

Mr. Geoffrey W. Dann
   New York, New York
Investment Advisor and Vice President, Lingold Associates LLC

Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, Vice Chair
   Stanford, California
Bing Professor in Environmental Science; Member, National Academy of Sciences

Mr. Daniel Gabel
   New York, New York
President, Hagedorn & Company

Mr. Bradford S. Gentry
   New Haven, Connecticut
Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Of Counsel, Baker & McKenzie; Co-Director, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; New England Advisory Committee, Trust for Public Land; Advisory Committee, Climate Change Capital; Long Range Planning Committee, Adirondack League Club

Mrs. Anne A. Hubbard
   Bronxville, New York
Board of Managers, The New York Botanical Garden

Mrs. Edith W. Kean
   New York, New York
Board of Managers, The New York Botanical Garden; Vice Chair, Friends of the High School for Environmental Studies; Advisory Committee, Trust for Public Land

Ms. Gretchen Long, Past Chair & Honorary Trustee
   Wilson, Wyoming
Trustee Emeritus, National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, DC; Board of Directors, The Land Trust Alliance, Washington, DC; Board of Directors, Scenic Hudson, Inc., Poughkeepsie, NY; Honorary Director, The Murie Center, Moose, WY; Board of Trustees, World Resources Institute

Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy
   Washington, D.C.
President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; Research Associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Board of Managers, The New York Botanical Garden; Member of the Board, Woods Hole Research Center; Member of the Board, American Museum of Natural History; Member of the Board, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; Chairman of the External Advisory Board, Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies

Mr. Mark Masselink
   Darien, Connecticut
Portfolio Manager, Moore Energy Fund

Mr. Jerry M. Melillo
   Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Director & Senior Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory

Mr. Robert Quinlan
   New York, New York
President, Quinlan Development Group LLC

Dr. Paul G. Risser
   Norman, Oklahoma
Chair and Chief Operating Officer, University of Oklahoma Research Cabinet; Acting Director of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum; Board of Directors, Sand County Foundation; Chairman, National Advisory Board, Long-Term Ecological Research Program, National Science Foundation; Board of Directors, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Mr. John E. Rorer
   New Rochelle, New York
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, American Museum of Natural History; Chairman of the Board, Collegiate Church of New York City

Dr. William H. Schlesinger, President
   Millbrook, New York
President, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Member, National Academy of Sciences

Mr. Allan Shope
   Wassaic, New York
Architect, Board of Directors of the Dutchess Land Conservancy, Clearwater, and the Dutchess Day School

Mrs. Elizabeth Farran Tozer
   New York, New York
Member of the Board: Millbrook Golf and Tennis Club; Museum of the City of New York; National Academy of Design; New York Foundation of Senior Citizens; Ohio Wesleyan University; Utah Opera and Symphony; Preservation League of New York State; Ross Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University; Sundance Institute; The Park City Historical Society and Museum; School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center; Advisory Board, Park Cit, Utah

Mrs. Julia Harte Widdowson
   Millbrook, New York
Board of Trustees, American Farmland Trust; Board of Trustees, The Orion Society; Board of Trustees, International Council for the musée des arts décoratifs


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