Seth Sprague recently retired as the head of Black Point Corporation, the Sprague family office. During his 22-year presidency, he worked to conserve and maintain over 2,000 acres of largely undeveloped property in Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough. The Tree Growth Tax Law has been critical to the Sprague family’s efforts to continue the vision of Phineas W. Sprague, a Boston businessman, ardent outdoorsman, and conservation pioneer.

Jennifer Dann grew up in Aroostook County, earned a degree in Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Denver. Jennifer spent 25 years in New Mexico primarily working for the civil engineering division at Kirtland Air Force Base on environmental compliance, community and land planning, and energy initiatives. She later worked for New Mexico State Forestry as the Urban and Community Forestry Manager. She and her husband, Chris Apblett, moved to Orono in 2020, and serves as a member of the Orono Tree Board, a board member for the Orono Land Trust, and the steward for the Piney Knoll Conservation Area.

Kyle Burdick is a licensed forester and the Vice President of Baskahegan Company. He is responsible for management policy, forest certification, land acquisitions, carbon offsets, wood sales, and general company administration. He grew up in Southeastern Connecticut and earned a forest management degree from the University of Maine in 2007 which was followed by time as a forest manager in the Adirondacks. In 2009, Kyle came back to Maine to work for Orion Timberlands serving as, among other things, the forester for Downeast Land Trust. In 2014, Kyle became the Land Trust Forester for Downeast Land Trust. He started with Baskahegan in 2016. In 2021 and 2022 he was part of the Maine Woodland Owners’s Forest Carbon Task Force to help investigate the options the organization's land trust had around inventorying forest carbon and selling offsets.

John Melrose and his wife Molly settled in Vassalboro in 1976 and live on about 135 acres of which about a third is rented as hay and corn fields and the remainder is woodlands. He holds a  bachelor's degree in Public Administration and a masters in Community Development from the University of Maine. John began his career at the Maine Municipal Association and then for 20 years owned and directed the private consulting firm specializing in government relations, association management and economic and community development.  He served eight years as Commissioner of the Maine Department of Transportation in the King Administration. For 16 years John served as steward for the Vassalboro Wildlife Habitat which is owned and managed by Kennebec Land Trust (KLT).

Jeff Williams grew up in Hollis where he started working on a wholesale produce farm which lead to a life-long interest in the outdoors. He earned his BS in forestry at the University of Maine and worked summers as an arborist for the City of Portland. After graduation Jeff started working with the late Everett Towle, Maine Woodland Owners past president. He is the owner and head forester of Maine Forest Management. He and his wife and daughter live in Limington.