Tom serves as Executive Director. A third generation woodland owner, Tom graduated from the University of Maine with degrees in Forest Management and Wildlife Management. He has been a Licensed Professional Forester for 30 years. Early in his career he worked as a forester and land manager on Maine’s state owned forestland working for the Bureau of Public Lands (BPL). He became Director of the Maine Forest Service in 1999 and served in that capacity for nearly four years. He joined Maine Woodland Owners in 2004.

Debbie serves as Office Manager. Debbie has a degree in Secretarial Sciences and joined Maine Woodland Owners in 1987 along with her father, Abbott, who was the first Executive Director of Maine Woodland Owners. Together they established the organization’s first office. Debbie has an important role in the day-to-day operations. She has had a life-long learning experience in good management and conservation of woodlands.

Jenn serves as Director of Communications and Outreach and the editor of Maine Woodlands. Jenn graduated from Shippensburg University with a bachelors degree in Education and from Antioch University New England Graduate School with a masters degree in Environmental Studies. Over the past 30 years she has been a conservation professional in a variety of capacities, first, as a Chesapeake Bay educator, and later, a program leader for small environmental organizations in New Hampshire and Washington DC. Before working with Maine Woodland Owners, Jenn served as Executive Director of Pemaquid Watershed Association and Development Director for Teens To Trails.

Olivia serves as Forestry Outreach Coordinator. She is a Nebraska native and graduated in 2021 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in fisheries and wildlife , a concentration in conservation biology, and a minor in urban forestry. After college she served three years as an AmeriCorps member with Conservation Nebraska, a non profit organization that helps citizens with issues facing their communities and provide them with the tools they need to improve their local environment. She supported their efforts to conduct locally-led education programing and community engagement opportunities.

Autumn serves as Wildlife Biologist. Raised in New Hampshire, she brings a wealth of both research and hands-on experience to the team. Autumn received her undergraduate degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Management at Unity College in Unity, Maine and a master’s degree at the University of Kentucky, focusing her research on Northern bobwhite survival – a gamebird species experiencing population decline. Before working with Maine Woodland Owners, Autumn worked as the lead field research technician monitoring gamebirds in coastal North Carolina.