Paul O. Bofinger came to New Hampshire on what he thought was a lark: to fish for landlocked salmon while awaiting his draft notice. The notice never came, the salmon were biting and 50 years later he is still here. In 1961, after a stint in the lumber business, Paul started work for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF) as a Tree Farm Inspector and stayed there for over 35 years. In 1965 he became SPNHF’s President/Forester. He worked for regulation of septic systems and wetlands and was instrumental both in the passage of Current Use assessment in the 1960s and in the campaign for the Trust for New Hampshire Lands which protected more than 100,000 acres. He has served on the Governor’s Task Force of the Northern Forest Lands Study and the Northern Forest Lands Council. Known as a great negotiator, he has worked to bring consensus on New Hampshire environmental issues too numerous to mention. Now retired from the SPNHF, he continues to serve on many boards, but arranges his meeting schedule around his fishing dates.

Tom Both was born in Queens, NY. Upon returning from service in the U.S. Army, he graduated from City College. Tom retired to Keene, NY in 1992 after a business career with Remington Rand, IBM and 29 years with 3M in sales and sales management in the Midwest, New York and New England. During 8 years as Keene Town Supervisor, he was also Chair of the Adirondack Mountain Club’s Trail Committee, Chair of the Essex County Economic Development Committee, Chair of the Essex County Fairgrounds Committee, Chair of the Essex County Tax Relief Committee and served on numerous other committees and boards. Currently, he continues as Chair of the Adirondack Harvest, a regional initiative promoting local agriculture, and he remains an active member of the New York State Forest Preserve Advisor Committee, Essex County Historical Society, Essex County Tax Relief Committee and the Essex County Fairgrounds Management Committee. Tom resides in Keene with his wife, Alana, and is the father of two grown children and three grandchildren.

Chuck Clusen has three decades of professional experience with governmental affairs and association management. He currently is Director of National Parks and Alaska Projects and Senior Policy Analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC. Chuck has served as executive director of American Conservation Association and executive director of The Adirondack Council. He organized, led and directed the Alaska Coalition, which successfully conducted a multi-year campaign to pass the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Over the last twelve years he has played an organizing role to form coalitions to save the Alaskan Rainforest, to increase U.S. funding for international family planning, and to protect the northern forests of New England and New York. Chuck received his bachelor’s degree in conservation at the University of Michigan and pursued graduate study at the Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan.

Warren C. Cook is an independent consultant with more than 30 years of business and nonprofit experience in biomedical research, recreation industry management, manufacturing, education, healthcare, conservation, social services and the arts. Warren serves on the boards of several organizations including Holderness School, Plymouth, NH; Franklin Memorial Hospital, Farmington, ME; Common Good Ventures, Waterville, ME; and Maine Community Foundation, Ellsworth, ME. Warren also co-chaired Governor John Baldacci’s Transition Team after his successful election in 2002. Prior to this, Warren served as President of The Jackson Laboratory/JAX Research Systems, President and General Manager of Sugarloaf Mountain Corporation (where he brought the company out of bankruptcy  and presided over the sale of the company to American Skiing Company) and President and CEO of CHEMFAB Corporation in Merrimack NH. Warren has also taught and served as a school administrator at Noble and Greenough School and Groton School, both in Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has pursued graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts School of Education and at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a long-time friend and advisor to the Northern Forest Center.

Dan Corcoran is a native of Watertown, Connecticut, and moved to Maine in 1969 after serving in the U.S. Navy.  He attended Unity College where he received an AS in Forestry and a BS in Outdoor Recreation Management.  After graduation, he began a 30-year career as an industrial forester for the Great Northern Paper Company, then the state’s largest landowner with 2.1 million acres of timberland. While working at Great Northern Paper, Dan served in various forestry positions throughout northern Maine and as road surveyor on the Golden Road Project, manager of Spruce Budworm Project, manager of Land Use, district forester, and finally as manager of Forest Policy. For many years Dan served as Great Northern Paper Company's forestry representative with the Maine Forest Products Council in Augusta and also represented Great Northern on the Administrative Committee of The North Maine Woods organization in Ashland, Maine. In 2003 Dan left Great Northern Paper and began a career in real estate and is currently the owner of North Woods Real Estate in Millinocket, Maine.  Dan is a licensed forester and a licensed real estate broker and serves on the Board of Directors of the Forest Society of Maine. Dan has four grown children and lives in Millinocket with his wife Jean, who is a Millinocket native and a well-known Maine artist.

John Collins’ ancestors emigrated from Ireland to the Adirondacks in the mid-1800s. Other than the three years he served in the Army, John has always lived in the Adirondacks. He currently is retired from a 28-year teaching career. He has, and continues to be, extensively involved in his greater community. John served for 17 years as chairman of his town Planning Board, first as trustee and then as president of the board of The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts. He was appointed in 1984 by Governor Cuomo to the Adirondack Park Agency, serving as chairman of the Interpretive Programs then as chairman of the subcommittee on Local Planning. He served as chairman of the Park Agency from 1992–1995.  In 1990 John helped organize the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks and continues to serve on that committee. John also has a long-standing association with the Adirondack Museum, serving as trustee and then Director. He has served since 2003 on the Board of Governors of the Bruce L. Crary Foundation, whose primary mission is to provide scholarships to college-bound Adirondack students. In his spare time he also manages land for his extended family. John attended Lemoyne College in Syracuse and graduated from Manhattan College with a B.A. in history. He is married to Ellen Callaghan. They have two grown daughters (Cathleen and Sarah) and three grandchildren. He and Ellen like to canoe, hike, and ski both cross-country and alpine. Winter weekends are spent cutting wood for family fireplaces. He’s admittedly a New York Times addict.

Jan Eastman is the retired president of The Richard A. Snelling Center of Government. She served as the secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources in the administrations of Governors Snelling and Dean. Prior to heading the Agency, she had a private legal practice specializing in the areas of real estate, development, estate planning and government. Jan also served as the legal counsel to the Department of Housing and Community Affairs and as the executive officer of the Environmental Board. Jan received her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Vermont and her Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University. Currently, Jan serves on the board of directors of the VT Chamber of Commerce, the Northeast Kingdom Enterprise Collaborative and LINKS (Lyndon State College’s Institute for Northeast Kingdom Studies). She also serves on the Executive Committee for UVM’s Center for Research on Vermont, as an advisory committee member for Vermont Student Assistant Corp., and sits on the Waste Facility Panel of the Environmental Board. She is also on the capital campaign committee of the Vermont Land Trust.

Katharine Eneguess has been president of NH Community Technical College Berlin since September 2005 and was president of both campuses in Berlin and Laconia within the NHCTC System from 2003. She has led the College to successful completion of accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Higher Education, created a master plan for each campus and continues to strengthen relationships with the communities within which the College campuses serve.  Prior to this role, Kathy lead her own consulting firm—Cloveridge Consultants, an organizational development firm specializing in organizational strategies and rural community development initiatives. For many years she served as vice president of the Business and Industry Association and functioned as lead policy analyst for legislative, regulatory and government affairs issues, specifically working on education, human resource and rural policy. She has served as a public member on the New England Schools and Colleges Association, Council on Higher Education accreditation board. She currently serves on the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, The New Hampshire Historical Society, Berlin Economic Development Corporation, Androscoggin Valley Economic Recovery Corp., is an incorporator of the Belknap County Economic Development Corporation, and co-chair of the NH Citizens Commission on the State Courts. Kathy holds a B.S. from Plymouth State College and an M.A. from Johnson State College; with Women in Higher Education coursework at Wellesley College and coursework toward her PhD.

Jennifer Huntington has lived in New England for more than 30 years. She is an outdoors enthusiast, especially for hiking, canoeing and cross-country skiing. She has climbed all 48 4,000' mountains in New Hampshire. Jennifer is passionate about combining education and the outdoors, especially for young people. She is past president and board member of the Appalachian Mountain Club and a current board member of the Alaska Conservation Foundation. Jennifer loves to travel; one of her most recent trips was to South Georgia, a sub-Antarctic island to view the incredible wildlife. The Northern Forest Center’s mission to connecting people and place resonates with her, especially as it affects a place that she loves: the Northern Forest. Jennifer’s two children, Henry and Clare live in Alaska and Colorado. Each has two young children…and visiting her family allows Jennifer has many more opportunities for outdoor adventures!

Terry Kellogg is the executive director of One Percent for the Planet, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening ties between businesses and environmental groups. Prior to joining One Percent in March 2005, Terry was director of environmental stewardship at The Timberland Company. His responsibilities there included leading the development and implementation of Timberland’s environmental goals, strategies and objectives. During Terry’s tenure, Timberland reduced its carbon footprint by nearly 10 percent through improved efficiency and the use of renewable sources of energy, adopted widespread use of water-based adhesives and launched programs in green building and organic cotton. Before Timberland, Terry worked on a variety of projects for Green Mountain Energy, a renewable energy company; prior to that, he worked on mining issues for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and forestry issues for the Vermont Natural Resources Council. He holds a BA in Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA and a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University.

Terrance J. Large is the director of Business Planning and Customer Support Services for Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH), where his responsibilities include preparing the company’s annual business and capital spending plans as well as overseeing PSNH’s Community and Economic Development department and Conservation and Load Management program. Terry was a key player in the development and passage of the New Hampshire Power Plant Mercury Reduction law, which will help to reduce mercury emissions from the state’s coal-fired power plants by at least 80 percent by July 1, 2013. Terry holds degrees both from Dartmouth College and from Union College in Schenectady, NY. He has completed the Penn State University Executive Management Program and is a 2006 graduate of Leadership New Hampshire. Terry resides in Bow with his wife, Christine, and their two children, Kevin and Sarah. He is the most recent chair of PSNH’s Easter Seals team, and he serves as chairman of the board for the Wanakee United Methodist Center, a camp and retreat ministry in Meredith, NH.

David Marvin and his wife own and operate Butternut Mountain Farm; a 1000-acre diversified woodland operation that produces maple syrup, Christmas trees and timber products, in addition to processing and distributing honey and maple syrup from other farms. They sell their products nationally and internationally through specialty food stores and world-renowned grocers and retailers. They also sell maple sugaring equipment, operate a farm retail store and mail order business, and provide forestry consulting services to land owners in the Northeast. David is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a B.S. in Forestry. David has served on numerous local and state civic and industry boards and commissions, and currently chairs the Shelburne Farms board and the College of Agriculture Advisory Board of the University of Vermont as well as serving on the boards of the Vermont Land Trust and the Vermont Maple Industry Council.  He is the past chair of the International Maple Syrup Institute, the Vermont Natural Resources Council and the Vermont Maple Industry Council.  In recognition of his service and accomplishments, David has been named the Vermont, New England and National Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year, the Vermont Maple Industry Council Maple Person of the Year, the Lamoille County Forest Steward of the Year. In 1995, David received the Lifetime Sugarmaker Award from the Vermont Sugarmakers’ Association, and is a farmer inductee into the Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame.  David resides in Hyde Park, Vermont with his wife Lucy Routhier Marvin.  They have two children, Emma and Ira, who both work in the business.

Richard Nichols grew up outside of Boston, graduated from Dartmouth College and taught geology and physics for three years at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, NH.  In 1992 he left teaching to join Nichols & Pratt, LLP, a partnership of professional trustees in Boston providing fiduciary and investment services.  He is a partner in the business and a chartered financial analyst.  The career change brought Richard and his wife Heidi to Lincoln, Massachusetts, where they now live with their three children.  Heidi grew up in the Western Mountains of Maine and her family’s involvement in the timber industry through extensive land holdings, harvesting and milling operations, as well as their deep involvement in the community, has helped to strengthen Richard’s ties to the region.