Campaign Committee With more than 42 years of strategic planning, economic analysis, market research, renewable energy, energy efficiency and demand response program design, implementation and evaluation experience in the energy industry, Dick has managed several large-scale energy consulting projects for GDS clients. In addition, he has contributed to the development of Energy Efficiency Technical Reference …
Trail Champions Honorary CommitteeDick is the former Executive Director of Maine Audubon Society, BEP member, Department of Conservation Commissioner, and Founder of the International Appalachian Trail Twenty-five years ago, Dick and two other Mainers shared their concept for the International Appalachian Trail (IAT) to extend the Appalachian Trail from its end atop Mount Katahdin into …
Trail Champions Honorary CommitteeA pioneer of the Leave No Trace Ethic (with her late husband Guy), a Director of the Waterman Fund, and an icon in the hiking and conservation world. Laura and her husband Guy (1932-2000) lived for nearly 30 years as homesteaders on 27 acres in Corinth, Vermont where they moved in 1973 …
Campaign Committee Kim began his career as a Law Clerk for the Maine Supreme Court in 1978 and became a staff attorney at Maine PUC in 1979 where he worked for five years. In 1984, Kim became an in-house attorney at CMP and moved to private practice in 1987 joining Curtis Thaxter in Portland. In …
MATC President Port Clyde, ME Tom retired as President of Gorrill Palmer Consulting Engineers, Inc. in 2015, after a 37-year career in Civil Engineering. Tom is a former Baldpate District Manager for the MATC and currently serves as its VP and chair of the Governance Committee. He is also a Board member of the Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust. Tom lives in Saint …
Corresponding SecretaryHollis, MEDoug recently retired after 37 years in the semiconductor industry, with the last 20 years as an Intellectual Property Engineer. He recently termed out after 6 years from the Apex Youth Connection (formerly Community Bicycle Center) in Biddeford which provides barrier free opportunities for area youth to develop career and life skills. He is also …
Manager of Lands Trail Champions Honorary Committee Chair Hampden, ME Dave has 65 years of volunteer Trail maintenance experience on the Appalachian Trail. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Maine Appalachian Trail Club for 54 years, including 10 years as President. He served on the Appalachian Trail Conference Board of Managers for …
Trail Champions Committee Chair Bangor, ME Lester worked as the Trails Supervisor at Baxter State Park for 22 years, spent two years with Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission, and served as the Field Team Program Coordinator for the Maine Conservation Corps until his State retirement. He owns a trail tool business, Trail Services, which provides …
Club Coordinator Portland, ME Holly has worked as the Club Coordinator for the Maine Appalachian Trail Club since 2004. She works with MATC’s Board of Directors, volunteers, organizational partners, seasonal staff and other stakeholders in helping the organization meet its mission to maintain, manage & protect 267-miles of the Appalachian Trail. Holly co-founded and co-managed …