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Board of Directors
Board Member Biographies
Tom Williams served on the staff of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (and its predecessor the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee) for more than 25 years. When he left the Committee in January of 1999 and retired from federal service, he was the Democratic Staff Director under Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers. He also served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree in Political Science from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and Washington State University, respectively. Currently, Mr. Williams is a consultant and Director of Federal Projects for The Conservation Fund, an Arlington, Virginia, based non-profit land trust. He is the founder and president of The Williams Group, a consulting firm specializing in natural resource and public lands’ issues. Mr. Williams is a former member of the Secretary of the Interior's Advisory Board on the National Park System and currently a member and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Gifford Pinchot Institute for Conservation. Tom is an adjunct professor at American University in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies and the School of Public Affairs. Mr. Williams also serves as a visiting faculty member at the Eastern Management Development Center in Shepherdstown, WV and the Graduate School, USDA. Julie Gorte, Treasurer (top)
Julie Fox Gorte is the Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing at Pax World Management Corporation. She oversees environmental, social, and governance-related research on prospective and current investments as well as Pax’s shareholder advocacy and work on public policy advocacy. Prior to joining Pax, Dr. Gorte served as Vice President and Chief Social Investment Strategist at Calvert. Her experience before she joined the investment world in 1999 includes nearly 14 years as Senior Associate and Project Director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Vice President for Economic and Environmental Research at The Wilderness Society, Program Manager for Technology Programs in the Environmental Protection Agency’s policy office, and Senior Associate at the Northeast-Midwest Institute. Dr. Gorte received her Bachelor of Science in Forest Management at Northern Arizona University, and a Master of Science and Ph.D from Michigan State in resource economics. Dr. Gorte serves on the boards of Ceres, the Center for a New American Dream, and the Pinchot Institute. She has served as the co-chair of the Asset Management Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives, and is a member of the Forest Economics and Policy Program’s advisory panel. Carol Collier, Chair (top)
Ms. Collier has over 25 years of experience in environmental management, water resources, and land use planning and has been the Executive Director of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) for the last 12 years. Ms Collier is only the third director since the Commission’s inception in 1961. Prior to joining DRBC, she worked for Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, heading up his 21st Century Environment Commission and served as Regional Director of the Southeast Region, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. She also worked 19 years in the private sector. She is educated in aquatic biology and regional planning, is a licensed professional planner, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a Senior Certified Ecologist. Joyce K. Berry (top)
Joyce Berry is Dean of the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. She is a Board Member of the National Council on Science and the Environment, the Center for Environmental Innovation and the Pinchot Institute for Conservation. She is the new President-Elect of the National Council of Environmental Deans and Directors. She received her Bachelor’s in political science and graduate degree in education from the University of California at Berkeley, Master’s in regional resources planning from Colorado State University and her PhD in forestry and environmental studies from Yale University. George H. Bohlinger III (top)
George Bohlinger’s association with the Pinchot Institute extends back over twenty-five years, including a term as Board Chair. His professional government career has included service as U.S. Deputy Associate Attorney General; Executive Associate Commissioner – U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; and Superintendent, Massachusetts’s Norfolk Prison. His private sector experience includes serving as Executive Vice President, EDS Corporation and Managing Partner – Easton Hanover Partners, LLP. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, American University and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Dale Bosworth (top)
Dale Bosworth was raised in northern California, the son of a Forest Service employee. He graduated from the University of Idaho in 1966 with a degree in Forestry and immediately joined the U. S. Forest Service. He served in a variety of positions in Idaho, Montana and eastern Washington. In 1986 he became Forest Supervisor of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah. He later served in Washington DC and California and in 1994 became Regional Forester of the Intermountain Region of the Forest Service headquartered in Ogden, Utah. In 1997 Bosworth became Regional Forester for the Northern Region in Missoula. He was named Chief of the Forest Service in 2001 where he served until he retired in 2007 after 41 years with the agency. He resides in Missoula, Montana with his wife Carma. Hanna J. Cortner, At-large (top)
Hanna is a retired professor of natural resources, having held appointments at both Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona. Her research has focused on natural resource policy, particularly in the areas of forest, fire, and water policy. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in government from the University of Arizona, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Washington. She has served on the Pinchot board since 2005, and in 1999 was the Pinchot Distinguished Lecturer. She also currently sits on the board of directors of the Communities Committee, is treasurer of the Flagstaff branch of the AAUW, and is a member of the Flagstaff Water Commission. Jackson Eno (top)
Jackson Eno is the Vice President of Morgan Stanley. He graduated with a BS in Economics from the University of New Haven, and received his MDP from the Hartford Graduate Center. In addition to serving on the Pinchot Institute board, he is the Director Emeritus of the Simsbury Bank & Trust Company, President of the Simsbury Cemetery Association, Inc., director of the Simsbury Main Street Partnership, and a member of the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club. Ross Gorte, Secretary (top)
Ross W. Gorte is a senior policy analyst in natural resources at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Ross has been employed at CRS since 1983, and served as section head for natural resources for 12 years. CRS provides objective, nonpartisan information and analysis for the Members of Congress and their staff. Dr. Gorte covers numerous issues for Congress, including federal land and resource management, multiple use and sustained yield, wildfires, and wilderness; timber management, taxation, and trade; forest carbon sequestration and markets, deforestation, and adaptation to climate change; and appropriations, finances, and economics of federal land and resource programs. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles and reports for Congress, as well as testifying before congressional committees several times on these issues. Ross has a Ph.D. in natural resource economics from Michigan State University, and an MBA and Bachelors of Science in Forest Management from Northern Arizona University. Lawrence T. Hoyle, Jr. (top)
Larry is a product of his North Carolina roots; attending Duke University; serving as an officer in the United States Marine Corps; and receiving a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He has devoted his career to litigation, teaching, and public service. His activities have included serving as Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, member of the Pennsylvania Appellate Court Nomination Commission and member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Board which was charged with evaluation of alleged misconduct by the Pennsylvania judiciary. He has taught at Temple University Law School and at numerous legal seminars for practicing lawyers.
Larry has handled complex litigation for numerous Fortune 500 corporations. Larry tried and won the first two asbestos-in-buildings cases ever tried in the U.S. and has been first chair in numerous other multi-million dollar trials. Nels C. Johnson, Vice-Chair (top)
Nels Johnson is Deputy State Director for The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania. He has worked for nearly twenty-five years on biodiversity and forest conservation projects in the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean and Russia. Johnson’s work has focused on forest management and restoration, conservation priority setting, ecosystem services, and minimizing conservation impacts from climate change and energy development. He has published articles in Science, the Journal of Forestry, and Conservation Biology and has authored and edited books published by Island Press, Elsevier Science Press, the World Wildlife Fund and the World Resources Institute. Before joining The Nature Conservancy, Johnson worked at the World Resources Institute where he was Deputy Director of the Biological Resources Program. He serves as a trustee for the Pinchot Institute for Conservation and sits on several advisory committees to state agencies and non-governmental organizations. Johnson received a B.A. in biology at Reed College and an M.S. in forest ecology at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Married, with two children, Johnson lives in Camp Hill, PA. Joseph Mancias, Jr. (top)
Joseph is a Principal with NashNogales, LLC, a management consulting practice.
He is a former 25-year member of the career Federal Senior Executive Service and led a
variety of programs that included agency wide oversight, enterprise wide human capital and training services, management counsel to agency heads, establishing private and non-profit sector partnerships, and initiating national marketing and creative communication services. He service included executive positions at the Departments of Labor, Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs in his Federal service, both civilian, and military, where he attained the rank of Captain in the Naval Reserve. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Texas A&I, Kingsville, TX and a Masters of Science in Public Relations from Kogod College of Business Administration at American University. Malcolm McAlpin (top)
Following a 35-year career in investment banking, Malcolm McAlpin retired in 2004 in order to pursue personal interests and avocations and to enjoy more fully the beauty and natural surroundings of northeast Pennsylvania, specifically Pike County and Blooming Grove, where he has a home. This area has been a part of his and his family’s life for five generations and currently, he divides his time between Blooming Grove and Charleston, SC. An avid fly fisherman and upland bird hunter, the quality of our waterways and woodlands are of vital interest and concern to Malcolm. As a member of the Blooming Grove Club, he has served on the club’s Fishing & Water Management Committee since 1976, and as chairman the past 13 years. During his 35 years as a resident of New Jersey, Malcolm’s volunteer and board leadership activities focused largely on organizations related to conservation and the preservation of open spaces, with time and resources also devoted to animal welfare, the preservation of a unique garden facility and his love of fishing and hunting. Malcolm enjoys raising and training his own gun dogs and has pursued opportunities to fish in numerous remote locations within the United States and abroad during both his business years and his retirement. An amateur woodworker and a lover of history, his time in Charleston offers numerous opportunities to pursue these interests. A graduate of Duke University, Malcolm is married and the father of three adult children who reside in some wonderful fishing locations and he enjoys introducing his grandchildren to the wonders of nature and the pleasures of our natural environment and the pursuit of outdoor activities.
Nicholas H. Niles (top)
Nick served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant and was decorated with the Soldier’s Medal. He earned a BS from Columbia University and an MBA from Fordham University. Nick Niles was in the Publishing business most of his career. His last job there was Senior Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of Times Mirror Magazines. Before joining Times Mirror Magazines, Nick was Executive Vice President of Springhouse Corporation, publishers of Nursing Magazine and Springhouse Books. Prior to that, Nick held the job of Publisher at several national magazines including Food and Wine at American Express Publishing and Kiplinger’s Changing Times, now called Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. He is a past President of the Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Hawley, Pennsylvania. After retiring from the Publishing business, Nick started a golf travel business called Expedition Golf with Sven Lindblad’s Special Expeditions. Currently Nick also sits on the Board of Lackawanna College, the Northeastern Philharmonic and WVIA, the PBS Radio and TV Station, as well as the Library Building Committee in Milford Pennsylvania. Nick also has served on the past boards of The International Art of Jazz, a non-profit organization in New York City which put jazz into grammar and high school, Mountain Laurel Center for the Performing Arts, The Urban League of Southern Connecticut, The League for Hard of Hearing in New York City, The Advisory Board of the School of General Studies at Columbia University, and an Alumni Trustee of the Guthrie Medical Center in Sayre, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Maggie, live at the Blooming Grove Club in Hawley, Pennsylvania.
Jeremy W. Pinchot (top)
Jeremy Pinchot is an equity analyst for Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co., Inc. a boutique Wall Street research firm. Pinchot focuses primarily on the US housing sector, including the publicly traded homebuilders and conducts grassroots research into specific housing markets within the US. Prior to covering housing Pinchot covered newspaper publishers, for-profit education companies, retail, insurance brokers and special situations. Prior to joining MCH in 2000, Pinchot worked as a political media consultant and producer of political advertising in Washington, DC. Pinchot is a National Honorary Board Member of Republicans for Environmental Protection, a Board Member of The Pinchot Institute for Conservation. Pinchot graduated with a B.A. in Journalism from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1993. He is the great-grandson of Gifford Pinchot. He lives in Bedford, NY with his wife and two children. Larry Quinn (top) Larry recently retired from the Office of Communications at the USDA, after 42 years of federal service. His bio is forthcoming. V. Alaric Sample(top)
V. Alaric (Al) Sample has served as President of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation in Washington, DC since 1995. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters, and a Research Affiliate on the faculty at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is author of numerous research papers, articles and books on topics in national and international forest policy. His most recent book is Common Goals for Sustainable Forest Management: Divergence and Reconvergence of American and European Forestry, with Steven Anderson (Forest History Society 2008). Sample earned his doctorate in resource policy and economics from Yale University. He holds two masters degrees, an MBA and a Master of Forestry both from Yale, and a Bachelor of Science in forest resource management from the University of Montana. His professional experience is in both the public and private sector and includes assignments with the U.S. Forest Service, Champion International, The Wilderness Society, and the Prince of Thurn und Taxis in Bavaria, Germany. He specialized in resource economics and forest policy as a Senior Fellow at the Conservation Foundation in Washington, DC, and later as Vice President for Research at the American Forestry Association. Sample has served on numerous national task forces and commissions, including the President's Commission on Environmental Quality task force on biodiversity on private lands, and the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry.
Sally Collins,(top)
Sally Collins has spent more than 25 years in natural resource management, working at the “field level” as a forest manager for 20 years prior to coming to Washington DC. Her last field assignment was Forest Supervisor of the 1.6 Million acre Deschutes National Forest. She served most recently as Associate Chief for the U.S. Forest Service, sharing responsibilities with the Chief for management of all of the 155 National Forests and Grasslands, providing support to tribal, state and private lands, and overseeing the International Program Office. Prior to retiring from USDA Collins served as the first Director of the USDA Office of Environmental Markets. Collins currently works with Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) to help the largest forested countries of the world establish secure tenure arrangements and laws for their forested estates. For 6 years, she has served (and continues to serve) as Co-Chair of Megaflorestais, an organization established to informally connect the top forest leaders in the world. The group has collectively shared and advanced issues around climate change, deforestation, illegal logging, REDD and associated markets (including the Amazon Fund) and tenure/governance issues fundamental to forest protection and poverty alleviation. She received her BS from the University of Colorado and her Master’s from the University of Wyoming in Natural Resources Management and Political Science.
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