Hannah Carter is a native of Caribou, Maine and is dean of University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Carter received her Ph.D and master’s degree in agricultural education and communication, specializing in agricultural leadership and Extension education, from the University of Florida. She is a graduate of the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

Jim Clair is CEO of CSSHealth, a healthcare technology company based in Tampa, FL and Buffalo, NY and also owns or co-owns a number of companies in Maine under the umbrella, Clair Group of Companies. From 1984 to 2001, he served on the nonpartisan staff of the Maine Legislature. Jim holds master’s degrees from Syracuse University and the State University of New York, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts. Clair and his wife Jennifer split their time between China, Maine, where they own 155 acres of woods, and a home in Portland, Maine.

Mark Doty earned his BS degree in Forest Engineering from the University of Maine. His career started as a forester with Scott Paper and he retired in 2018 from Weyerhaeuser as Public Affairs Manager. He now works as a forester. He served as President of the Maine Forest Products Council, as well as Vice President of the New Hampshire Timber Owners Association and Vermont Woodlands Association. He has also served as a board member of the Vermont Forest Products Association, Maine SFI Implementation Committee, Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, and Sportsmen/Forest Landowner Alliance. He and his wife Lilly live in Madison. 

David Gould grew up in Maine, graduated from the University of Maine and since 1977 has been involved with several businesses, a majority of which he served as president. David and his wife Anne started purchasing woodland acreage in North Waterboro in 1999, and today they own and actively manage 467 acres. They became Maine Woodland Owners members in the early 2000s.

Jeff McCabe graduated from Unity College and has worked for more than 20 years in Maine’s outdoor economy. He currently serves as director of the Maine Office of Outdoor Recreation. From 2008 to 2016, McCabe served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives. He resides in Skowhegan with his wife and their three children and maintains a 13 acre woodlot adjacent to their home.

Alan Michka grew up in Texas, graduated from Texas A&M University before practicing veterinary medicine. After switching careers nine years later, Alan flew planes until retiring in 2023. Alan and his wife Kay have owned woodland in Maine since 2001 and moved to the state in 2005. They now live in Lexington Twp. and own adjacent woodlots totaling about 420 acres. Alan and Kay joined Maine Woodland Owners in 2004.

Mike Redante is the staff forester for the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF), where he oversees forest management on 44,000 acres throughout New England. He holds a Master of Forestry degree from the University of Maine. Before NEFF, he worked for Prentiss & Carlisle, working closely with private landowners across the state. Mike lives in Bangor with his wife and two children. When not in the woods, he enjoys playing ice hockey.

Nicole Rogers is the Landowner Outreach Forester with the Maine Forest Service (MFS) and brings a wealth of practical knowledge and experience around forest management and silviculture. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine and her masters degree from Oregon State University. She holds a doctorate in Natural Resource Management from University of Vermont. She was a professor of forest management and silviculture at the University of Maine in Orono. Before that, Rogers was an assistant professor of forestry at University of Maine Fort Kent for three years. A native of Lincolnville, Nicole lives in Hampden with her husband, who is also a forester, and their young child. They manage their family-owned woodlands in Topsfield and Belfast.

Paul Sampson grew up on a 100-acre farm with a father who was an architectural woodworker. From an early age, he was taught to grow and harvest trees, saw and dry lumber, make cabinets, doors and moldings from that lumber. He and his wife, Jula, have run their millwork business, A.E. Sampson & Son, in Warren since 1987. Always willing to learn, Sampson attended his first Maine Woodland Owners event in the mid-1990s, and has been “hooked on the organization ever since.” After volunteering for the Midcoast chapter leader position, he joined the board of directors.

Jeff Tarling is the Tree Warden for Cape Elizabeth and the Urban Forestry Specialist for Maine Audubon. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine and a lifelong lover of trees and forests. Before serving in his current roles, Jeff spent over thirty years caring for community forests and parks in Portland. As City Arborist, Jeff managed the city’s 20,000 street and park trees, town forests, municipal landscapes and community gardens. Jeff has served as a board member with the Maine Arborist Association for over twenty years and is a former member of Maine’s Arborist Review Board. Jeff is a resident of South Portland.