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Members of the Board of Directors |
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Bryan Wentzell
Chair, Board of Directors
Bryan Wentzell is the Maine Policy Manager with the
Appalachian Mountain Club, based in Brunswick, Maine. Originally a
Maine native, Bryan has spent a great deal of time in the woods and
mountains of northern Maine and New Hampshire. In addition to
semesters at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Center for
Northern Studies in Vermont, Bryan graduated from Middlebury College
with a B.A. in Environmental Studies. While in school Bryan worked
in the AMC’s mountain hut system for 5 seasons and spent 4 seasons
in Alaska as a wildlife research assistant and hiking guide, before
coming to the AMC’s conservation department in 2001. Bryan now works
with community partners in Piscataquis County around AMC’s Maine
Woods initiative, as well as with conservation, community and other
partners throughout the state. Bryan enjoys hiking, skiing, canoeing
and biking, plays guitar and is a private pilot. |
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Jim Higgins
Board of
Directors
Jim Higgins graduated from Fairfield University in
1963 and went on to spend two and a half years in Nigeria with the
newly started Peace Corps. He has led several wilderness canoe trips
in the Far North and was instrumental in bringing the leadership of
the Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec) to Vermont. After reading
a Ted Williams article on Hydro-Quebec in Audubon magazine in 1986,
it was Jim who circulated a petition to protest the James Bay
development project. He helped to start the New England Coalition
for Energy Efficiency & the Environment (NECE3) and served on the
Sierra Club Executive Committee for some time.
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Richard "Dick"
McCormack
Board of Directors
Dick McCormack was born July 20, 1947 in New York
City. He is a thirty-five year resident of Bethel where, as a boy,
he spent part of every summer visiting the small family farm his
great-grandparents acquired in the 1880s. Dick earned a Bachelor of
Arts Degree in United States History from Hofstra University in
1970, and a Master of Studies in Environmental Law, cum laude, from
the Vermont Law School in 2002. He also studied Secondary Education
at Castleton State College (1977-78).
Dick became a Vermont State Senator for Windsor County in November
1989 when Governor Kunin appointed him to serve the remainder of an
unexpired term. He was elected in his own right in 1990, and
re-elected by large margins in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, and
2006. He chose not to seek re-election in 2002 or 2004. His
fourteenyears in the Senate included service as Majority Leader,
Vice Chair of the Judiciary Committee, and Chair of the Natural
Resources and Energy Committee, where he was the sponsor of the
"Right to Dry" bill in 1998 and the current "ACT RELATING TO
VOLUNTARY ENERGY CONSERVATION MEASURES." |
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 James Thaxton
Secretary, Board of Directors
James Thaxton works as a conservation project manager
with the Upper Valley Land Trust based in Hanover, NH. After
graduating from Bates College, James went to Vermont Law School in
Royalton, Vermont where he received a joint Juris Doctorate and
Master of Studies in Environmental Law degree. Currently working
with local farmers, towns, and environmental groups to match grants
for permanent land conservation with willing landowners, James’ has
experience with grant writing and using real estate law to
accomplish environmental protection goals. Now living in Thetford,
Vermont with his wife, Melissa, and daughter Madeleine, James enjoys
relaxing at home, hiking with his dog, gardening, and traveling in
his free time. |
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 Nancy Brockway
Board of Directors
Ms. Brockway is a consumer advocate and expert on
energy and utility regulation. Ms. Brockway has 30 years experience
in consumer protection, including 5 years on the New Hampshire
Public Utilities Commission, 16 years in a variety of indigent legal
assistance programs, and 8 years as a staff member of two different
U.S. state regulatory commissions. Brockway has provided expert
witness testimony on over 30 occasions on utility consumer
protection issues in litigation before 9 state or provincial
regulatory commissions. She is a nationally-recognized expert in
consumer affairs issues.
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