Our Board of Directors

Darrell Bazzell, Madison
Darrell is the Vice-Chancellor of Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to his position at the University, Darrell served as Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Before becoming Secretary, Darrell was Deputy Secretary and headed the DNR's Office of Planning Analysis. Darrell also served as Assistant Administrator for the Agricultural Resource Management Division and Director of the Plant Industry Bureau at the State Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.

Bill Berry, Stevens Point
Bill is a self-employed writer and editor who specializes in communicating about conservation on America’s working lands. His current projects include serving as writer/communications specialist for the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters’ Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin project. Berry writes a regular column for the Capital Times of Madison and contributes regularly to other national and state publications. He resides in Stevens Point with his wife, Nick Schultz, who is also a writer..

Peter Dohr, Madison
Peter is a Partner at DeWitt, Ross, & Stevens where he specializes in real estate and land use. An avid outdoorsman and nature enthusiast, Peter is restoring a prairie on 100 acres of wooded land in Waushara County, which he is also considering permanently protecting with a conservation easement.

Kimberly Gleffe, Milwaukee
Kimberly Gleffe is currently Executive Director of the River Revitalization Foundation and has earned degrees in Psychology, Sociology and a Masters in Cultural Foundations of Education. Currently focused on serving the conservation community especially the Milwaukee River, she has devoted her entire career to the nonprofit sector, and is certified in nonprofit management. Her interests include travel, film, birding, and kayaking.

Alice Godfrey, Avoca
Alice was raised in a family very involved in conservation issues and active in a large land trust in Massachusetts. After moving to Chicago in 1979, Alice and her husband, Rick, bought some land in Avoca, Wisconsin in 1986 which they planned to conserve. She went on to join the Driftless Area Land Conservancy in Dodgeville in its infancy and served on its Board for just over three years before joining the Gathering Waters Conservancy's Board. Alice and her husband have two college-age children and split their time between Avoca, WI, and Oak Park, IL.

Joy Stieglitz Gottschalk, Madison
Joy Stieglitz Gottschalk is a Principal Planner and Brownfields Redevelopment Specialist at Vandewalle & Associates where her work focuses on urban infill redevelopment planning and implementation for clients throughout the Upper Midwest. Joy received her Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning with land use and environmental planning concentrations from the University of Wisconsin. In addition to her involvement with numerous local and national environmental associations, Joy and her husband, Rob Gottschalk, are founding members of Gathering Waters Conservancy's Land Legacy Society.

Shawn Graff, Slinger
Shawn Graff currently serves as the Executive Director of the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust and has over 24 years of experience in areas of historic preservation, fundraising and non-profit management. He has served as Executive Director of the Pabst Mansion and Wisconsin Heritage's in Milwaukee, Curator of Education for the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, and Assistant Director of the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Art Gallery. Shawn is involved in several Wisconsin organizations, including serving as Chairperson of the Slinger Preservation Committee and Past President of the Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation.

Arthur Harrington, Milwaukee
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, Arthur J. Harrington received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1975. Mr. Harrington has since practiced environmental law for close to two decades. He is the inaugural past chair of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin and a past president of the Milwaukee Bar Association. In addition, Mr. Harrington has served on the board of the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust and as President of the Milwaukee Public Library board.

Charles "Chuck" Haubrich, Racine
After 32 years as Operations Director Asia Pacific for S.C. Johnson, Chuck Haubrich retired in July 2001. He serves as the President of the Kenosha/Racine Land Trust and on the Board of the Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association Foundation as its secretary. In 2000, he donated a conservation easement on his 88 acre property, the first easement in Racine County.

Mal Hepburn, Cedarburg
Mal Hepburn helped found Ozaukee Bank in 1974, where he served as President, then Chairman, till 2008. By May of 2000, Ozaukee Bank had become the leading financial institution in Ozaukee County; and one of the most respected in the state. In addition, he is a founder and past President of the Cedarburg Community Foundation, has chaired the annual fund drive at Riveredge Nature Center and has been a Board Member of the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee.  He has served as Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Ozaukee YMCA, a Trustee of Ozaukee Congregational Church and on the Board of Family Services of Milwaukee.  Mr. Hepburn has been an activist on state and federal banking issues and has served as president of the Wisconsin Bankers Association. 

Christopher Hughes, Madison
Chris Hughes is an attorney and partner with Stafford Rosenbaum. A major focus of his practice is land use and real estate law. Chris has served on the Board of Directors of the Natural Heritage Land Trust for several years and continues to serve on their Stewardship Committee. He also serves on Gathering Waters' Land Protection Committee. Chris has presented at a conservation seminar sponsored by GWC in addition to co-presenting on conservation easements with Gathering Waters staff at several continuing legal education seminars for attorneys.

Tim Jacobson, La Crosse
Tim left his position as president of the 11-lawyer firm O’Flaherty Heim Egan, Ltd., to become Executive Director of the Mississippi Valley Conservancy because of his strong belief in the importance of MVC’s work and the effectiveness of the organization.  Tim has been a resident of the Coulee Region of southwestern Wisconsin since childhood.  He grew up working on farms and spent 14 years as a lawyer where he focused on environmental law and other civil litigation.  Tim has served on several boards of directors for local organizations.  Tim loves hiking, camping, rock climbing and scuba diving.

Thomas "Tuck" Mallery, Mosinee
Tuck is a partner at the law firm of Mallery & Zimmerman in Wausau specializing in real estate law. In 1985, he was a founding member of the Lakeland Conservancy in Minocqua and serves as its President. He has been on the Board of North Central Conservancy Trust since its inception and has drafted numerous conservation easements. In 2002, Tuck granted a conservation easement on about 1000 acres of land that he owns with D. David Sebold in Price County.

Patricia Stocking, Madison
Trish Stocking currently works for the Wisconsin Chapter of The Nature Conservancy in the land protection department. Trish studied botany as an undergraduate and received a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975. She has worked for non-profit organizations since then, including the national office of the Sierra Club. Trish and her husband, Jonathan Ela, own property in Door County and enjoy traveling, gardening and bird watching.