Our Team
Board of Directors:
2007 - 2008

Land Trust Committees:

• Building Conservation
• Membership
• Finance
• Cultural Landscape and Land Stewardship
• Historical/Collections

Volunteers:

Sept. 21, 2000 Working for Wilderness, Ruthven Park

Read about our volunteers— our greatest asset!

Lower Grand River Land Trust Staff:

• Marilynn Havelka, Chief Administrative Officer, Ruthven Park
• Linda Jackson, Office Co-ordinator
• Robin Richardson, Cultural Maintenance
  Co-ordinator
• Andrea Raymond - Education Coordinator
• Christine Madliger - Species at Risk Stewardship Coordinator (Funded through the Ministry of Natural Resources Species At Risk Programme)

Affiliations:

• Grand River Conservation Authority (consultation, information sharing, workshops, Heritage Working Group)
• Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk (technical advisory committee)
• Town of Haldimand (official status on our committees)
• Hamilton, Brant and Norfolk Naturalist clubs

Partnerships:
(These are all ongoing partnerships.)

• Ontario Heritage Foundation (Easement Agreements Ruthven Park)
• Parks Canada (Cost share Agreement Ruthven Park)
• Chiefswood National Historic Site and Lynwood National Historic Site and Arts Centre (Joint Fundraising Plan and Volunteer Training)
• Nature Conservancy of Canada (Stewardship of one of their properties in the North Cayuga Slough Forest, as well as a second Landowner Contact in the forest '97/'98)
• Grand Erie Board of Education (provision of school programs)

Memberships:

• Federation of Ontario Naturalists
• Ontario Nature Trust Alliance (founding member group, we chair their Communications Committee and edit their newsletter)
• Festival Country (Marketing Alliance)
• Carolinian Canada
• Ontario Museum Association
• Conservation Lands of Ontario
• Haldimand Bird Observatory