Kansas Land Trust Board, Staff, Interns, & Volunteers

KLT Board of Directors
November 2009 Retreat

Front row (from left): Myrl Duncan, Burke Griggs, Valerie Wright, Chelsi Hayden, Catherine Hauber

Back row (from left): Beverley Worster, Kelly Kindscher, Lynn Byczynski, Julie Elfving, Chad Voigt, donna luckey

Not pictured (new): Mike Wildgen

Officers / Executive Committee

	Catherine Hauber
	President - Board of Directors
	Attorney at Law

	Chelsi Hayden
	Vice President - Board of Directors
	Attorney at Law

	Kelly Kindscher
	Secretary - Board of Directors
	Plant Ecologist, Kansas Biological Survey

	Lynn Byczynski
	Treasurer - Board of Directors
	Publisher of monthly magazine for market farmers and flower farmer

Directors

	Myrl Duncan
	Board of Directors
	Professor, Washburn University School of Law

	Julie Elfving
	Board of Directors
	Julie is a retired Environmental Scientist and is an active Board Member of the Kansas Rural Center. She is also a Johnson County Master Gardener with a strong interest in naturalistic landscaping concepts. Julie is particularly interested in issues related to urbanizing watersheds, such as loss of farmland, open space, and storm water management. She lives in Olathe. KLT welcomed Julie to the Board in 2003.

	Burke Griggs
	Board of Directors
	Counsel, Division of Water Resources, Kansas Department of Agriculture. A native of Denver, Colorado, Burke earned his B.A. at Stanford, his Ph.D. at Yale, and then taught as professor of history at Boston College. His concerns about western land and water issues led him to change careers and become a water lawyer. He lives in Lawrence with his wife and three children.

	donna luckey
	Board of Directors
	Professor, University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Kansas

	Chad Voigt
	Board of Directors
	Chad is Professional Engineer in Lawrence, with a background in stormwater management and hydrology.

	Mike Wildgen
	Board of Directors
	Interim Director, Watkins Museum of History, Douglas Couty Historical Society

	Beverley J. Worster
	Former President - Board of Directors
	Bev is a retired teacher and farms sheep in Douglas County. She also edited the recently released book, The Nature of Kansas Lands.

	Valerie Wright
	Board of Directors
	Konza Prairie's first environmental educator and naturalist, Valerie came to K-State in 1979 and has held positions in the Department of Entomology and Biology. She has been president of the Kansas Native Plant Society and served on its board. Her master's and doctorate in entomology and plant pathology are from the University of Minnesota.

Staff

	Jason Fizell - Executive Director - jason@klt.org

	Jason has a background in land use policy and water quality and has worked in the conservation and nonprofit management fields for many years. Jason has previously served as the executive director of the Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance; manager of proposal development for a health policy research firm in Washington, DC; and, most recently, as Congresswoman Nancy Boyda’s district director in Topeka. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor’s degree in history of science and completed his thesis on the managed depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer in western Kansas.

	Jerry Jost - Director of Land Protection - jerry@klt.org
	A native of Kansas, Jerry grew up on a dairy farm in Harvey County. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Bethel College and a master’s degree in conflict management and dispute resolution from Baker University. Previously Jerry served as a project director for the Kansas Rural Center working with farmers on improved grazing management, conservation practices and farmers’ market development.

	Carol Huettner - Office Manager - carol@klt.org

	Carol brings a background in research, legal administration, and records management to her position. She holds a BA in economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA in marketing from Hofstra University. Formerly a resident of New York and Pennsylvania, Carol has come to appreciate the subtle yet profound beauty of the Kansas landscape. She has regularly participated in the Downtown Lawrence Farmers’ Market as a vendor of heirloom flowers and herbs.

	Special Thanks:
	Laurie Turrell Ward
	KLT thanks Laurie Ward for her years of dedicated service as Executive Director (1998-2001) and Special Projects Director (2001-2003). As Elizabeth Schultz wrote, "Her energetic, dedicated, and visionary leadership has provided a sound basis for the ongoing development of the KLT and of our community's education about conservation as we work together to understand and to preserve the wonders of the Kansas lands." Laurie has worked with KLT as a member and volunteer since its inception in 1990. In addition to her roles as Executive Director and Special Projects Coordinator, she was also the volunteer Lawrence coordinator of the 1997 Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance Rollin' Down the River Festival, a KLT project. Luckily for KLT, Laurie plans to remain involved with KLT as her role continues to change.

	RoxAnne Miller
	Former Executive Director
	Thank you, RoxAnne! KLT would like to thank RoxAnne for almost seven years of dedicated service as Executive Director. Although RoxAnne is leaving KLT, she is not leaving the land trust community; she has taken a position with the Catawba Lands Conservancy of Charlotte, North Carolina. Since RoxAnne started with KLT in 2001, the Land Trust has more than tripled the number of easements it holds and total acres protected. RoxAnne’s passion for land conservation will be missed and KLT wishes her the best in North Carolina.

KLT Thanks:Former Board and staff members

As Laurie Ward wrote in 2000, the real heroes of KLT are the various individuals who have served voluntarily on the Board of Directors. This board provides expertise in law, accounting, finance, real estate, conservation, biology, insurance, fund raising, writing, design, communications, education, administration, planning, and much more…

KLT founding board members listed in the Articles of Incorporation, July, 1990, are: Sarah Dean, Ernie Eck, Steve Hamburg, Marsha Marshall, Diane Simpson, John Simpson, Sandra Strand, Bill Ward, and. Joyce Wolf.

Expanding and succeeding this group have been: Lynn Byczynski, Brian Donahue, Myrl Duncan, Julie Elfving, Sidney Garrett, Mary Louise Gibson, Mark Gonzalez, Burke Griggs, Bill Hambleton, Catherine Hauber, Chelsi Hayden, Kelly Kindscher, Leo Lauber, donna luckey, Sandy McCoy, Tim Metz, James Minnerath, Rick Mitchell, Rich Niebaum, Bruce Plenk, Bob Russell, Sandra Shaw, Cathy Tortorici, Chad Voigt, Bryan Welch, Mike Wildgen, Bev Worster, Don Worster and Valerie Wright..

KLT Thanks: Our Hardworking Interns

Ava Azad, Stewardship Intern, Summer 2009

Leah Pistorius, Stewardship Intern, and Shane Morrisey, Legal Intern, Fall 2008

Zack Pistora and Andrew Roland, Stewardship Interns, and Shane McCall, Legal Intern, Summer 2008

Jami Jeffery, Planning Intern, 2006-2007

Sarah Cross and Shay Brown, Planning Interns, 2005-2006

Kiet Luu, Erin Paden, and Staci Henry, Planning Interns, 2004

Zack Anthony, Legal Intern, 2003

Casey Mulligan and Samantha Nondorf, Journalism Interns, 2002

Lori Kruger, Andrea Repinsky, and Yoshi Terai, Planning Interns, 2002

Amy Trainer, Legal Intern, 2000

Cati Coy and Katie Jaeger, Journalism Interns, 2000

	KLT Thanks: Our Volunteers

	Volunteers are essential to any grassroots non-profit organization like the Kansas Land Trust. KLT volunteers have taken on various tasks that have made a real difference to the organization such as landscape artist Lisa Grossman's donation of images for posters and KLT notecards, and Paul Hotvedt's work organizing the Kansas Conference on Imagination and Place in 2001 and again in 2003. Also, many thanks to Elizabeth Schultz for providing her newsletter feature "Senses of Place" a favorite feature of the KLT newsletter to many readers. *Current and past KLT volunteers include:* Andrew Roland, Belinda Hoover, Brad Levy, Bruce Hogle, Carey Maynard-Moody, Carolyn Micek, Deb Milks, Diane Becker, Doug and RuthAnn Guess, Edward C. Robison III, Elizabeth Schultz, Elizabeth Stevens, Evelyn Davis, Glen Garneau, James Nedresky, Janet Majure, Jesse Nelson, John Bird, Kelly Barth, Kelly Barth, Kyle Gerstner, Laurie Ward, Linda Lang, Lisa Grossman, Liz Miller, Lynn Byczynski, Martha Slater, Melissa Linquist, Nancy Mitchell, Noelle Uhler, Paul Hotvedt, Sarah Carkhuff Fizell, Shane and Kaelyn McCall, Soren Larsen, Steve Roels, Sylvie Rueff, and Wayne Berry. *People and venues who have assisted KLT with our special events:* Carolyn Coleman and Chuck Magerl at the Free State Brewery Barbara and Jay Nelson at the Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan Marlene Hackathorne at the Lecompton United Methodist Church Chris and John Grandmontagne at the Warehouse 414 in Topeka Carol’s Fancy and Ethnofacts Gallery in Lawrence