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.

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.

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!

Lew Teich has lived in Dummerston for six years, but has called the West River valley home since the late seventies. Lew shares a property on School House Road with his son and granddaughter and has converted the horse barn into his home and shop. His two daughters live out west with their families. He's had a local general contracting and cabinetry business for many years and h as worked extensively on several popular inns throughout the region. He also helps out with Dummerston Cares.

Lew was a Newbrook firefighter and first response captain for 25 years, and has been an active volunteer member of Rescue Inc since 1980. He gave up his medical certs a few years ago, but continues doing search and rescue, high angle rope, swift water and boat technician level response state wide. Lew is a longtime Maine sea kayak guide and loves leading groups and exploring the coastal islands.

Description goes hereBill Conley has been a Dummerston resident since 1992 and has over the years has served on the Dummerston School Board as well as the Energy Committee. 

He has been a teacher for almost 45 years working with people learning English as a second language. 

He joins the Conservation Commission after many years of admiring its work and wishing he were a part of it. He has called himself an environmentalist since his first teaching job in an outdoor environmental education program right out of college. He is an avid birdwatcher and a devoted lover of trees.