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About CC
/ Community Conservation Personnel
Community Conservation Personnel
Staff
 Dr.
Robert H. Horwich, (Director) received
his Ph.D. in zoology 1967 from the University of Maryland and worked
in a postdoctoral position in India with the Smithsonian Institution.
Based on over 20 years of research on infant development, he developed
a successful method for reintroducing endangered cranes into the wild
used internationally on a number of species. He has studied primate
behavior in India and Central America since 1967 and pioneered a reintroduction
effort for endangered black howler monkeys. In 1984 he began work with
community sanctuaries and established the Community Baboon Sanctuary
in Belize. He is the founder of Community Conservation Inc./Howlers
Forever, Inc.
Lamar Janes (Bookkeeper) graduated
in biology from Stanford University and studied limnology at UW-Madison.
He worked for the Wisconsin DNR in limnology and the Arkansas DPC&E
in nonpoint source management and limnology. He lives in a rural intentional
community of 10 adults focused on creating a permaculture.
Juliee de la Terre With
a BA Natural Science from Viterbo University 2009 and her eye on an
eventual graduate degree in conservation, Juliee is currently primary
staff at Community Conservation. She has experienced a close tie with
the earth for many years by growing up in rural Wisconsin, working on
many farms there, eventually owning a natural landscape business and
community supported agriculture farm. She believes in the power of the
people to protect their precious resources when laws and law enforcement
fail. To that end she facilitates CC international projects and is actively
involved in local conservation efforts. She feels that an interdisciplinary
approach is the most effective way to raise awareness of and solve conservation
problems.
Board of Directors
Dr. Terry Beck
(President) has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Composition from the Union
Institute and has taught in the English Department at UW-La Crosse since
1978. He has a small farm near Avalanche, Wisconsin where he raises
cattle, chickens, and wine grapes. He was a founder and long-time board
member of Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Jack B. Knowles (Vice
President) B.A. St. Olaf College, former high school teacher, small
business owner/entrepeneur, has spent 30 years on his homestead farm
with interests in wildlife habitat enhancement, native plant restoration,
renewable energy technology and conservation.
Dr. Jack Pfitsch (Treasurer)
received a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1976. He is a math
and computer science high school teacher who also devotes time to community
and education issues outside the classroom. He was a founding member
of the local Coulee Region Organic Produce Pool (CROPP).
Bryon Walker (Secretary) local
attorney. Past President of Madison
Community Cooperative, Past Board member and former General Manager
of Union Cab of Madison Cooperative, Inc., Past President and former
Executive director of Center for Conflict Resolution, and former Executive
Director Rock County Fair Housing Council.
James Poehling is Vice
President, Engineering of First Supply LLC and a Partner in JMP Commissioning.
Locally, he is involved with Coulee Partners for Sustainability as a
board member, and Clean Air Coalition as a board member.
April Sansom
is currently working on a PhD in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental
Studies. She completed her Master's degree in Conservation Biology and
Sustainable Development in October of 2003. The action research she
conducted for this degree focused on the role of women in natural resources
management decision-making in two small rural communities in Bolivia
. Her doctoral work will take her to Ecuador and Mexico as well as Bolivia
. April served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines from 1996-1998,
and worked for the Philippines program of Conservation International
for a year after that. She worked with an indigenous group of people
on Coron Island that had just received legal rights over their ancestral
land and water. She coordinated a conservation enterprise project, which
focused on the processing of cashews by the local community people.
Joe Swanson,
an organic farmer and proprietor of a local Bed-and-Breakfast is also
a Board member of Valley Stewardship Network, and has served on his
village of Webster’s Town Board.
Cele Wolf,
is the Soldiers Grove Librarian and is active with several local theatre
efforts including coordinating the costume creation and rental for North
Crawford Playhouse.
Scott Bernstein
has a BS from the University of Illinois in Accounting/MIS, and completed
his Master's degree in Land Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in May, 2006. He is currently studying Environmental Law at the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has a strong interest
in community-based conservation, environmental policy in the developing
world and environmental dispute resolution. Scott did his thesis research
on community co-management capacity in Belize. In the past, he owned
a computer training and consulting firm, and has traveled, lived and
worked extensively around the United States and the world. He served
as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan from 1992-1994. Scott's interests
include writing, music, and photography.
New Board Members (l-r): James Poehling,
Joe Swanson, Jack Knowles, Cele Wolf, & Bryon Walker
Community Conservation Associates
These project personnel have worked and continue
to work in collaboration on a number of domestic and international projects
with conservation organizations, community development organizations,
and governmental agencies. Community Conservation projects have also
included active participation by a large number of faculty, students,
and graduate students from numerous colleges and universities. In addition
to informally working with many volunteers to accomplish long-term goals.
Firoz Ahmed is completing his Ph.D. at Gauhati University with
a thesis on tree frogs of the northeast states of India.
He has published widely on frogs and is currently writing a herpetological
guide for the northeast states. A member of Aaranyak,
Firoz is an Honorary Wildlife Warden in Assam. He attended the
Smithsonian Institution conservation/ management program, training on
turtle conservation in the USA and attended the Applied Environmental
Education Training Programme in Thailand. He recently won the
Sanctuary-ABN AMRO Wildlife Service Award (see above). He was
the voluntary coordinator of the Golden Langur Conservation Project
from 1998-2006.
Chris Augusta is fine artist and explorer
who has done primate and fish surveys for Community Conservation and
initiated the Gales Point, Manatee project.
Harriet Behar is an organic farmer
involved with organic inspections and organic farming training. She
is now the Outreach Coordinator for Midwest Organic & Sustainable
Education Service (MOSES), our partner for the 2006 Organic Dairy
Farming book.
Arnab Bose (below, far left) has
four years College with Honors in Zoology. He is an expert on butterflies
of Assam. He is currently doing research on the effects of the
conservation effort on Kakoijana RF on the golden langur population,
habitat and the community. Since 1998, as a member of Natures
Foster, he has been the main community conservationist in the Golden
Langur Conservation Project focused on Kakoijana Reserve Forest and
is expanding his work to other forests.
Raju Das (above, far right) has a
BS, from B.N. College in Assam with Honors in Botany (1994) and an M.Sc.
from Gauhati University in Botany (1997) with experience in forestry.
He teaches in the Government H.S. and M.P. School in Kokrajhar, Assam.
A member of Natures Foster, Raju participates in the awareness campaign
and research on the golden langur, its habitat and the communities in
the Kakoijana Reserve Forest area.
Robin Brockett worked as a zookeeper
before beginning extensive research on howler monkeys at the Community
Baboon Sanctuary in Belize as well as working with the government of
Belize to develop a local conservation-based center for animal rehabilitation.
She now runs the Wildlife
Care Center of Belize.
Dave Erickson is an award winning
documentary producer whose 1996 documentary, "Community Conservation:
Living In the Park" features a number of CC community projects.
Helena Fitch-Snyder is a behavioral
research associate at the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species
(CRES) in San Diego. She has planned and developed research and
conservation programs for endanged Asian primates.
Rajen Islari
is President of Green Forest Conservation, an NGO based in the Kachugaon
area. He helped initiate the Golden langur Conservation Project
and stimulated the community conservation program in the Kachugaon area.
He initiated and currently coordinates the newly formed Bodoland Forest
Protection Force which is protecting the western part of the Manas Biosphere
Reserve.
Dr. Gail Y. B. Lash
worked in Belize in 1992 and in 2000, evaluating the Community
Baboon Sanctuary as a model or private ownership conservation, as part
of her research for her M.S. from Georgia Tech and her Ph.D. from University
of Georgia.
Dr. Jonathan Lyon
was one of the founders Community Conservation and worked as the Assistant
Director on many projects. He is currently teaching at Merrimac College
in Massachusetts.
Kathryn (Katie) Mann received a BS cum laude in Zoology from
the University of Maine (2002) where she earned high honors and scholarships
and an MSc in Primate Conservation from Oxford Brookes University (2005).
Her thesis was to assess the Punta Burica area in Costa Rica as a potential
site for primate conservation. She returned to Punta Burica
in 2007 to begin a project to help the Guaymi landowners protect and
manage their indigenous reserve lands and the primates and other fauna
and flora on them. She has experience in organic farming and served
as a consultant for Ocean Futures Society in the Amazon on filming of
the PBS series “Jean Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures.
Karenina Morales has become El Salvador's
first primatologist in her investigations of the remnant populations
of spider monkeys in the country. She is currently focused on working
with the communities in four of these areas in an education campaign
to involve them in co-management of their forests. Read
about her project.
Jacob Phelps graduated from Michigan State University, College
of Natural Science with honors in 2007. As an undergraduate he was a
Truman and Udall scholar. Brought up in Costa Rica, Jacob is an expert
in orchids and worked in Thailand as an intern for World Wide Fund for
Nature in environmental education and on the illegal plant trade in
Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. He worked training members of the
community of Democracia in Belize in co-management of protected areas.
He is currently doing studies of ecotourism in Belize as an intern for
Community Conservation.
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