Our Team of Advisors . . .
  • Elizabeth Barber (Ridgeland, MS)  principal Barber and Mann, Inc.; co-coordinator for Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation
  • Suzanne Berl (Asheville, NC)  environmental organizational development consultant; past national board chair of River Network
  • Chris Canfield (Pittsboro, NC) executive director of Conservation Trust for North Carolina, formerly National Audubon Society vice president for Gulf and Mississippi Flyways Programs; former Audubon North Carolina state director   
  • Manley Fuller (FL)  public policy director for North Carolina Wildlife Federation; past president of Florida Wildlife Federation
  • Eileen Hennessy (SE/NZ)  organizational development /conservation planning consultant; past director land protection programs for Land Trust for Tennessee and Piedmont Land Conservancy (NC)
  • Larry Smith  (Richmond, VA)  retired VA Natural Heritage Program manager of Virginia natural areas protection program, incl. land acquisition, conservation easements, caves and karst conservation
  •  Tom Smith (Richmond, VA)  assistant secretary of Virginia Dept. of Conservation & Recreation; formerly director of Virginia Natural Heritage Program
  • John Taggart (Wilmington, NC)  past director of NC Coastal Preserves program; semi-retired professor of conservation biology, ecology at UNC-Wilmington
  • Rickie White  (Durham, NC)  executive director of Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association; formerly NatureServe southeast US regional senior ecologist
  • Brad Wyche  (Greenville, SC) founder and retired president of Upstate Forever