Geoffrey Maclay is a founder and president of the Cedar Lakes Conservation Foundation, and founding member of Gathering Waters Conservancy. He has long been recognized as “one of the fathers of Wisconsin’s land trust movement,” and has been a lifelong advocate for private land conservation. For more than thirty years, Geoff has led efforts to protect over 2,000 areas of natural areas, wetland, woodland and other valued land resources within the Cedar Lakes Watershed. Recently, Geoff has worked closely with the DNR, the National Park Service and the Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation to protect some of the last remaining Kettle Moraine topography in Washington County.
“Geoff has been instrumental in Wisconsin’s conservation efforts and land trust movement, serving as one of the founding fathers of the Gathering Waters Conservancy and as a chief architect for Wisconsin’s original Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program.”
~Dan Kaemmerer and Tom Blotz
