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Montpelier, VT, December 13, 2006 -- John Roe, formerly the Director of Conservation Programs at Vermont Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, will become the Vermont Land Trust’s Vice President for Land Conservation effective January 2nd, 2007, the Vermont Land Trust (VLT) announced today. “John Roe is an ideal addition to the Vermont Land Trust management team,” remarked Gil Livingston. “He will offer the organization a higher level of sophistication around the ecological portion of our work and at the same time he has strong familiarity with conservation of Vermont’s working landscape. John is also a familiar face and trusted resource to all those involved with conservation science in the state.” "I am very excited to be joining VLT,” John recently offered. “I love Vermont and few organizations other than VLT have demonstrated how the conservation and stewardship of land can help create more sustainable communities in our state. VLT looks at the whole picture, integrating the working landscape with ecology, economy and recreation at a local scale." John has a Master’s in ecology and has been working in the conservation field for the past 26 years. He spent 20 years with The Nature Conservancy in Vermont, where he most recently served as the Director of Conservation Programs. His entire career has been focused on bringing science into conservation work, particularly in the arena of land protection negotiations and the drafting of conservation easements. For the past decade, John has worked on issues surrounding the protection of biodiversity in a managed forest context in the Northeast, particularly in a northern hardwood community. He was one of the chief architects of the ecological components of the conservation easements on the 126,000 acres of private and public lands that once were owned by Champion International in Vermont. He is also the co-manager of the Atlas Timberlands Partnership lands, 25,000 acres of timberland in northern Vermont co-owned by The Nature Conservancy and the Vermont Land Trust. Here, the two organizations are working on how to best combine economic and ecological return, as well as support some community recreation values. Most recently, John co-authored of a booklet that explores the topic of natural dynamics syliviculture in three primary northeastern forests. He is currently working on a full length book with Mark Zankel, the Nature Conservancy’s Deputy State Director in New Hampshire, that will explore the intersection of forestry, forest ecology, and how they might best be addressed in the context of forest conservation easements in the Northeast. John remains committed to the partnership between VLT and TNC that has allowed Vermont to be a national leader in land conservation: "The missions of VLT and TNC compliment each other very well and in a small state like Vermont people expect us to cooperate and we’ve done this remarkably well. I've worked hard to build a strong partnership between the organizations and will continue to do that, just from a different chair. Together we can conserve far more of the state's nature and working landscapes in a fashion that is sustainable over the long term"
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