Robert Abernethy (Aiken, SC) – retired president of the Longleaf Alliance, an organization dedicated to restoration of longleaf pine ecosystems in the southern U.S.; previously National Wild Turkey Federation program head
Elizabeth Barber (Ridgeland, MS) – principal owner and director of Barber and Mann, Inc.; past co-coordinator for Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation
Suzanne Berl (Davidson, NC) – environmental organizational development consultant; past national board chair of River Network
Manley Fuller (Hickory, NC) – public policy director for North Carolina Wildlife Federation; past president of Florida Wildlife Federation
Gary Knight (Tallahassee, FL) – retired director of Florida Natural Areas Inventory program
Nelwyn McInnis (Covington, LA) – president of Southern Wild Heritage, LLC; Land Trust for Lousiana advisory board member and land conservation committee chair; retired from The Nature Conservancy-Louisiana as a program manager specializing in wetlands mitigation
William Reeves (Gulf Shores, AL) – retired former chief of Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s (TWRA) Biodiversity Division, and co-founder and co-chair of Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership; formerly TWRA Chief of Fisheries and Alabama Assistant Chief of Fisheries
Larry Smith (Richmond, VA) – retired, VA Natural Heritage Program manager of Virginia natural areas protection program, including land acquisition, conservation easements, caves and karst conservation
Tom Smith (Richmond, VA) – retired, assistant secretary of Virginia Dept. of Conservation & Recreation; formerly director of Virginia Natural Heritage Program
John Taggart (Wilmington, NC) – retired, 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 ecologist
Brad Wyche (Greenville, SC) – founder and retired president of Upstate Forever
