MEET OUR MEMBERS

Christine Goepp grew up in the area but moved back to Dummerston in 2018 after decades away in California, Hawaii, Texas, England, and most recently DC. She is an Army vet and has a master's degree in Chinese poetry. She has two grown sons, one in New Jersey and one in Maryland. She currently lives on Middle Road with her husband, "Cribbage" Todd, and stepdaughter, Laurel, a college student. She is an attorney for the Federal Communications Commission but has always had a passion for the natural world, especially gardening and exploring the forests in which she wandered as a child. Although not formally trained in conservation, she hopes to use her skills to contribute in any way she can to the Dummerston Conservation Commission's important work.

Lynn Levine had been a consulting forester since 1978 mostly in Windham County. She continues to work as an environmental educator focusing on topics concerning the forest. Lynn has taught more than a hundred workshops on various nature-oriented topics. Lynn is co-author of Working with your Woodland: A Landowner’s Guide and Mammal Tracks: Life-Size Tracking Guide and author of several other books the latest being Identifying Ferns the Easy Way. Lynn has been a resident of Dummerston since 1979 and was a founding member of the Dummerston Conservation Commission. heartwoodpress.com

David Greenewalt moved to Dummerston in 2002. He is interested in maps and the role of computers and programming in their production using GIS. He has been making tax maps for towns in southern Vermont for the past 20 years. Previously, he worked at the Windham Regional Commission producing maps, where he was introduced to GIS.

John Anderson is a carpenter by trade. He is an amateur naturalist and woods rambler by inclination. He is also the author of numerous magazine articles on natural history topics. He is also a long time participant in the Putney Mountain fall Hawkwatch.

Jesse Wagner settled down in Dummerston with his family after spending the better part of 20 years bouncing around Windham County. Jesse first came to southern Vermont from his childhood home in Maine as a college student at the former Marlboro College, where he graduated in 2005 with an Environmental Studies degree. Along the way he fell in love with Vermont’s mountains, ecosystems, and lovely wife Emily, herself a student transplant from South Carolina. Over the next 20 years detours carried he and his family to locations as remote as Antarctica and unexpected as the mid-Atlantic continually advancing his career as a jack-of-all-trades. Jesse is very interested in land conservation, bird watching, invasive species removal, tree ID, harvest and planting, soil erosion, trail building, hiking and fishing. He is a former member of the Brattleboro Conservation Commission and current member of the Friends of the West River Trail steering committee. Jesse and his wife Emily have two children ages 5 and 10, and all enjoy gardening and landscaping and hiking together. They love living in Dummerston and becoming more familiar with the awesome forests and trails that the town has to offer. Jesse is a carpenter and maintenance man for a local property management company.

Emily was born and raised in Keene, NH and spent many years exploring the Adirondacks of New York during her Undergraduate career. There she earned her Bachelor’s in Psychology from SUNY Plattsburgh, her Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Certification, and finally her Master’s of Education in Health Education and Promotion with a concentration in Eating Disorders from Plymouth State University, Emily moved to Dummerston, VT in 2020 where she lives with her family and two dogs. Preserving Dummerston’s natural beauty is extremely important to Emily, and you’ll often find her out on the local trails with one or two of her dogs.

Rick Mills is a 24-year Dummerston resident, residing on Hague Road that entire time.

As far as conservation is concerned, his greatest interest is making sure kids get maximum exposure to nature in all its categories and subcategories. His 10 years on the town and High School schoolboards emphasizes that. Rick’s passion is trail creation and trail maintenance. The Conservation Commisssion is grateful for Rick’s earnest physical effort to preserve and enhance the town’s most valuable resource = our existing natural resources!