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Algonquin to Adirondacks Board of Directors 2011-2012
President: Emily Conger, B.Sc., Upper Canada Board of Education Consultant and Teacher (Ret.)
Vice-President: James Lolley, B.Sc.(Hons), P.Eng, Business Owner (Ret.)
Treasurer/Secretary: Ed Lowans, Sustainability Consultant , Author, Adjunct professor of sustainable design
Ken Buchan, President: Ottawa Valley Chapter CPAWS
Henry Lickers, Environmental Science Officer, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
Margot Miller, Artist, Leeds County Stewardship Council Representative
Cameron Smith, B.A., LLB., Vice President, Environmental Writer and Novelist
Advisors
Dr. Robert O. Bailey, Delta Waterfowl Foundation, Vice President Policy for Canada
Richard Deering, Secondary Department Head and teacher, Ottawa Board of Education (Ret.)
James Dobson, Ontario Fur Mangers: Director- Zone 6A
Karen Fraser, GIS Coordinator,United County of Leeds&Grenville: Works, Planning Services and Asset Management
Dave Hahn, Councillor, South Frontenac Township, National Farmers Union, Local 316: Board member, Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority: Vice-Chair
Jean Langlois, National Campaigns Director Sierra Club Canada, Sierra Club
David McLaughlin, Leeds Federation of Agriculture
Sara Jane O’Neill, B.ScH, Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority, Development Technician
Don Ross, Frontenac Arch Biosphere: Executive Director
Bill Stephenson, Biologist, Parks Canada (Ret.)
Chris Van der Vyver, Ph. D, Paleontology, Small Business Owner
Sherri Watson, Past President, CPAWS
Stephanie Weiss, Save the River: Executive Director
Claudette Weststrate, Teacher, Upper Canada District School Board (Ret.)
Ian Whyte, Small business owner, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Richard Deering, Secondary Department Head and teacher, Ottawa Board of Education (Ret.)
James Dobson, Ontario Fur Mangers: Director- Zone 6A
Karen Fraser, GIS Coordinator,United County of Leeds&Grenville: Works, Planning Services and Asset Management
Dave Hahn, Councillor, South Frontenac Township, National Farmers Union, Local 316: Board member, Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority: Vice-Chair
Jean Langlois, National Campaigns Director Sierra Club Canada, Sierra Club
David McLaughlin, Leeds Federation of Agriculture
Sara Jane O’Neill, B.ScH, Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority, Development Technician
Don Ross, Frontenac Arch Biosphere: Executive Director
Bill Stephenson, Biologist, Parks Canada (Ret.)
Chris Van der Vyver, Ph. D, Paleontology, Small Business Owner
Sherri Watson, Past President, CPAWS
Stephanie Weiss, Save the River: Executive Director
Claudette Weststrate, Teacher, Upper Canada District School Board (Ret.)
Ian Whyte, Small business owner, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Board Bios
Ken Buchan is a geophysicist and canoeist with a deep interest in conservation issues. He is a long-time board member and current president of the Ottawa Valley Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, as well as a trustee of the Quetico Foundation.
Emily Conger moved to the A2A area in 1970, and became keenly interested in conserving the area's wildlife. She has been working on environmental and sustainability issues since the 1970's, and has worked over the years with a variety of organizations. Emily retired in 2001 from a 31 year career in teaching and consulting for the Upper Canada Board of Education. She has been a director of A2A since 2001 and president since 2002. She raises organic food and enjoys cooking, riding, skating, swimming, canoeing, biking and hiking.
Don Ross has had a varied career that includes working for 12 years as the Chief Park Naturalist at both Point Pelee and St. Lawrence Islands National Parks; nearly two decades as co-owner of a sporting goods store in Brockville; and currently as an author and free-lance writer for various woodworking and other magazines, as well as being Executive Director of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve.
Cameron Smith is retired from writing the Toronto Star's environmental column. He is a former managing editor for The Globe and Mail, and for 17 years was an associate member of the international Club of Rome. He has worked extensively in securing the Lost Bay Nature Reserve.
Bill Stephenson is a Protected Areas Conservation Biologist. He retired from Parks Canada in 2005 and is now a Parks Canada 'Scientist Emeritis'. He is on the board of CPAWS-Wildlands League and CPAWS's national priorities committee as well as involved with the Park Research Forum-Ontario[PRFO] and other protected area initiatives. He was an originator of the A to A concept and has advised the Board since it's inception.
Sherri Watson worked in the environment field for over 25 years, primarily in policy and management for the federal government. She is the former President of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society National Board of Trustees and serves as an advisor to the A2ACA.
Ian Whyte: Over the past few decades I've grown to love and appreciate all of the natural world. This love has caused me to work to defend the Earth, in all Her aspects. This is especially important to me in these troubled times.
Emily Conger moved to the A2A area in 1970, and became keenly interested in conserving the area's wildlife. She has been working on environmental and sustainability issues since the 1970's, and has worked over the years with a variety of organizations. Emily retired in 2001 from a 31 year career in teaching and consulting for the Upper Canada Board of Education. She has been a director of A2A since 2001 and president since 2002. She raises organic food and enjoys cooking, riding, skating, swimming, canoeing, biking and hiking.
Don Ross has had a varied career that includes working for 12 years as the Chief Park Naturalist at both Point Pelee and St. Lawrence Islands National Parks; nearly two decades as co-owner of a sporting goods store in Brockville; and currently as an author and free-lance writer for various woodworking and other magazines, as well as being Executive Director of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve.
Cameron Smith is retired from writing the Toronto Star's environmental column. He is a former managing editor for The Globe and Mail, and for 17 years was an associate member of the international Club of Rome. He has worked extensively in securing the Lost Bay Nature Reserve.
Bill Stephenson is a Protected Areas Conservation Biologist. He retired from Parks Canada in 2005 and is now a Parks Canada 'Scientist Emeritis'. He is on the board of CPAWS-Wildlands League and CPAWS's national priorities committee as well as involved with the Park Research Forum-Ontario[PRFO] and other protected area initiatives. He was an originator of the A to A concept and has advised the Board since it's inception.
Sherri Watson worked in the environment field for over 25 years, primarily in policy and management for the federal government. She is the former President of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society National Board of Trustees and serves as an advisor to the A2ACA.
Ian Whyte: Over the past few decades I've grown to love and appreciate all of the natural world. This love has caused me to work to defend the Earth, in all Her aspects. This is especially important to me in these troubled times.