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Officers and Board of Trustees

Complete list of Officers and Board of Trustees for FY12 (July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012).

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Rusted iron girder of an old abandoned railroad bridge (now a walking path) over the Mississippi River at the small northern Minnesota town of Palisade. © Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy

Chair
Cheryl Appeldorn

Vice Chair
Lorna Gleason

Vice Chair
Deb Skinner

Treasurer
Jack Dempsey

Trustees
Wendy Bennett
Richard (Dick) Brainerd
Jud Dayton
Brian Foster
Marcia Hanson
Ed Hlavka
Vanya Hogen
William (Bill) Hunt
Robert (Bob) Kennedy
Anne Knapp
Mike Meyer
Ann Mulholland
Sam Salas
Craig Swanson
Jean Sweeney
G. David Tilman
Martin Vanderploeg
John Willoughby

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Coast live oak trees punctuate the prairie grasslands at Chimineas Ranch, a protected wildlife corridor linking the Carrizo Plain National Monument with Los Padres National Forest, located within San Luis Obispo County, California. © Mark Dolyak

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