Board of Directors Gavin Robinson is Senior Vice President, Community Relations Manager and Public Finance Officer of Bangor Savings Bank. With over 20 years of industry experience, Gavin serves as the Bank’s Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Officer, leading efforts to provide lending, financial services, and investment to communities. As Program Officer for The Bangor Savings…
Board of Directors Brian Threlkeld, Portland, ME, has had a lifelong love of the outdoors. Growing up in Minnesota, he enjoyed formative experiences in the Boundary Waters–a true wilderness setting that would help chart the course for many adventures to come. After surviving crevasse falls, charging grizzly bears and graduating from Alaska Pacific University, Brian…
Board of Directors James Eric Francis Sr. is Penobscot Nation’s Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Tribal Historian, and Chair of Penobscot Tribal Rights and Resource Protection Board. As a historian James studies the relationship between Maine Native Americans and the landscape. Prior to working at the Penobscot Nation, James worked for the Wabanaki Studies Commission helping implement…
Board of Directors Dan Wenk had over a 40 year career with the National Park Service. Dan and his wife Barbara retired to Rapid City, South Dakota at the end of 2018. He began his career as a Landscape Architect with the Denver Service Center. In 1979 he was assigned to Yellowstone National Park as…
Vice President, Board of Directors Sheryl Crockett Tishman is a dedicated advocate and philanthropist committed to advancing land conservation and community resilience. She serves on the Boards of Trustees of the National Trust for Public Land and Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters, and, together with her husband, Dan, co-founded the NorthLight Foundation, which supports initiatives…
Secretary, Board of Directors Gail Fanjoy, Millinocket, ME, is a third generation resident of that community who is deeply committed to the revitalization of the Katahdin region. Following the attainment of degrees in Speech Pathology and Audiology from the University of Maine, she returned to her hometown and began working at a non-profit, KFI, at…
Treasurer, Board of Directors Logan Edwards, Portland, Maine, was born and raised in the Katahdin region. His family has lived in the Benedicta and Island Falls communities for the past 150 years and has operated Birch Point Campground & Cottages, on Pleasant Lake, since 1922. His family has maintained the snowmobile trails in Island Falls…
Board of Directors Lisa Horsch Clark, Vice President of Gift Planning, Friends of Acadia, has been raising funds to preserve and protect Acadia National Park since 2005 following a long career in higher education fundraising. She specializes in estate and planned giving and works with individuals, foundations, and corporations to support capital and special projects….
Board of Directors Eliza Donoghue, Brunswick, Maine, is the Executive Director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association. Born and raised in Maine, she developed her environmental ethos as a child, paddling the state’s rivers and climbing its mountains with her family. Eliza studied creative writing and wilderness studies at the University of Montana and went…
Board of Directors Don Hudson, Arrowsic, ME, developed an interest in plants and ecology in the early 1970s while leading expeditions for the Chewonki Foundation in Maine and Quebec. He graduated from Dartmouth College (1972, A.B. French and Environmental Studies); and received graduate degrees from the University of Vermont (1979, M.S. Botany) studying the reproductive…
