Chair: Larry R. Kueter is a shareholder and a member of the Executive Committee with the Denver, Colorado law firm of Isaacson Rosenbaum P.C. Since 1990, his practice has included representing numerous landowners, local land trusts, governmental entities, and statewide and national conservation organizations in land conservation matters. He currently serves as legal counsel to the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts and has been legal counsel to the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust since its creation in 1995. In 2003 and 2004, he served on the Land Trust Alliance's Standards and Practices Revision Committee, and in 2004 and 2005, he co-chaired the Land Trust Alliance's Standards and Practices Program Design Steering Committee.

Vice Chair: David MacDonald has been part of the land protection staff at Maine Coast Heritage Trust for the past 15 years, first as a project manager and now as MCHT’s director of land protection. He has worked with landowners, communities, and partner trusts to assemble dozens of conservation transactions along the Maine coast. David also serves as a volunteer board member of three local conservation organizations in eastern Maine – the Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary, the Island Foundation, and the Pleasant River Wildlife Foundation. He lives on Mount Desert Island with his wife Caroline and two young children.

Secretary: Ann Taylor Schwing is of counsel for McDonough Holland & Allen in Sacramento, California. She serves on three nonprofit boards - Anthony M. Kennedy Inn of Court, American Inns of Court Foundation, and The Land Trust of Napa County where she is also a multi-committee member, volunteer and land and conservation easement donor. She is author of Open Meeting Laws 2d (2000), California Affirmative Defenses (2005) and The Regulation of Money Managers (with Tamar Frankel, 2005), and editor of Tamar Frankel's Securitization (2005). She received the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit in 2004.

Treasurer: Katherine "Kat" L. Imhoff is the state director of The Nature Conservancy of Montana. The Conservancy’s Montana chapter, based in Helena, has community-based programs around the state and coordinates with Canada in conserving ecologic values along the Rocky Mountain Front. Previously, Kat was vice-president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the private, nonprofit organization that owns and operates Monticello, the Virginia home of the author of The Declaration of Independence. The Governor of Virginia appointed Kat to the board of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF), an open-space preservation agency that holds 2,000 easements on over 350,000 acres of land. Kat chaired the VOF and also chaired the Journey Through Hallowed Ground, a project to link outstanding sites in early American history into a 175-mile historic corridor. Kat’s 27- year professional career has included service as executive director of the Preservation Alliance of Virginia and vice president of the Piedmont Environmental Council. In 2006 she received the Council’s Conservation Leadership Award. Kat is a graduate of the University of Virginia, with a Masters degree in Environmental Planning and is certified as a professional planner by the American Planning Association.

Elizabeth “Liz” Crane is a certified forester who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management from Clemson University and a Master of Forestry degree from North Carolina State University. She initiated the Forest Legacy Program in the Southern Region as an employee of the Forest Service in Atlanta. She began her forestry career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, and worked seasonally in Alaska in addition to working as a hydrologist and rural development specialist for the Forest Service. Currently Liz is a Conservation Easement Specialist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington, DC.

David HartwellIs President of Bellcomb Technologies, a company that designs and produces structural, lightweight panels for industrial applications. He also serves on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations including The Land Trust Alliance, National Audubon Society, Conservation Minnesota and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the Mississippi River Fund.

David and his wife, Elizabeth enjoy travel and often (but not often enough) go to distant places to bird watch, see the countryside, its people and hike. He loves to garden is constantly trying to outdo his record 14’ tomato plant.

Lucinda Hunt-Stowell (Cindy) serves as a board member for several environmental and land trust organizations in Connecticut and is a consultant to not-for-profit organizations through the NonProfit Assistance Initiative with the Connecticut Community Foundation. She is currently chair of Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust board in Woodbury, Connecticut. Her corporate and consulting background includes over 30 years experience in Project and Strategic Planning, Business Process Management, Quality Improvement and Organizational Development.

Jennifer Lorenz is executive director of the Legacy Land Trust and has served on the board of the Texas Land Trust Council for three years. Lorenz has more than twelve years of experience in managing and working with non-profit organizations including: Habitat for Humanity, Xeriscape Learning Center and Design Garden, Coastal Bend Bays Foundation, Coastal Bend Land Trust.

Marc Smiley is owner of Marc Smiley Organizational Development, providing board development, strategic planning, fundraising and other organizational development support to land trusts throughout the US. He has extensive experience working with land trusts as a staff person, board member and consultant. Marc currently sits on the board of the Columbia Land Trust.

Peter R. Stein is a general partner at The Lyme Timber Company in New Hampshire and is responsible for large scale timberland purchases and limited development projects with regional and national land conservation organizations. In addition, he manages LTC Conservation Advisory Services, assisting landowners with conservation land transactions. Stein previously was senior vice-president of the Trust for Public Land. Current and past board memberships include Appalachian Mountain Club, Island Press, Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, Vermont Natural Resources Council and the Land Trust Alliance. He is currently an advisor to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Orton Family Foundation and a small group of conservation-minded individual philanthropists.

Henry Tepper is the vice president of the eastern states for the National Audubon Society. He previously worked for 13 years at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as the state director in New Hampshire and New York, and as the director of international programs for the eastern United States. He also served as the deputy commissioner for natural resources of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and as the executive director of the Columbia Land Conservancy.

Kathy Treanor is the founder and senior advisor for the Piedmont Land Conservancy (PLC) in Greensboro NC. In addition, she also served as PLC's first president and executive director. Kathy was re-appointed by NC Governor Easley for a second term with the North Carolina Zoological Park Council, serves on the national board for the public broadcasting Simple Living TV with Wanda Urbanska program and is helping to establish the Friends of Greensboro Parks & Recreation Foundation. She is the author of the PLC's book Forever These Lands, a photo-documentary of neighbors protecting land.

Wes Ward, vice president for Land Conservation for The Trustees of Reservations has been with the organization since 1981. He oversees the land conservation efforts of the organization from the Doyle Conservation Center in Leominster. He works closely with the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition (of which he was co-founder and then-chair for the Coalition’s first eight years), the Land Trust Alliance, and local and state agencies as well individual landowners and families. He earned a masters degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in addition to a masters degree in Landscape Planning from University of Massachusetts. Born in Vermont, he graduated from Marlboro (Vermont) College, with interests a B.A. in literature and history.

Michael B. Whitfield is the Coordinator of the Heart of the Rockies Initiative, a partnership of land trusts in three states and two Canadian provinces in the Northern Rockies. In this role, Michael coordinates a large landscape initiative to protect high priority lands through collaborative planning, capacity building, and capital fundraising. He was previously the long-term executive director and founding board president of the Teton Regional Land Trust in Idaho. He is also a conservation biologist and research associate with the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, through which he investigates the ecological needs of sensitive wildlife species and partners with management agencies to conserve their habitats