William J. Ginn, Co-Chair of the 2C1Forest Board of Directors
Bill Ginn is the Director of the Forest Conservation Strategies Program for The Nature Conservancy and Chair of the 2C1Forest Board of Directors. He brings his extensive experience from business and his years working to conserve the forests of the Northeast US. He is the author of Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business (2005). He has extensive experience in leadership in both the conservation movement and in the private sector. He has served on numerous boards and committees for non-profit organizations, companies and governmental agencies. His leadership in large scale, landscape level conservation is widely recognized.

Justina Ray, Co-Chair of the 2C1Forest Board of Directors
Trained as a zoologist, Dr. Justina Ray is the director of Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, a Canadian organization devoted to gathering and disseminating scientific information pertinent to solving conservation dilemmas in Canada's wild places. While Justina's research has spanned the range from tropical rainforests to subarctic taiga, the ecology and conservation of carnivores have been common themes. Her Ph.D. research in the Central African Republic was the first carnivore community study in an African rainforest environment. During the course of her scientific career, the questions that drive her research have been increasingly rooted in the role of shifting landscapes in biodiversity decline and/or change in forested ecosystems. These issues include quantifying the impacts of development activities on biodiversity (especially logging and hunting), the sustainable management of tropical and temperate forests, and global issues in forest carnivore conservation.

In North America (where most of her current work is located), Justina has become increasingly involved in research activities associated with conservation planning in large intact landscapes of Canada's northern boreal forests (north of the 51rst parallel). To this end, she has been a principal partner in the first ecological research on wolverines in lowland boreal forests, and has conducted broad-scale surveys of large mammals, including wolverines, woodland caribou, and wolves, in northern boreal forests and Hudson Bay lowlands. She is partnering with several Ontario First Nations communities in implementing the simultaneous collection of indigenous knowledge and aerial survey data targeting wolverine and caribou distribution and relative abundance in a 2 million ha area. She is also a member of the newly formed provincial Ontario Wolverine Recovery Team, and has been a member of the Nova Scotia Marten and Lynx Recovery Team since 2003.

Justina has authored or co-authored more than twenty book chapter, journal, or popular articles, and is lead editor of the book Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity (Island Press; March, 2005) and co-editor of the forthcoming Noninvasive Survey Techniques for North American Carnivores (Island Press). She is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, and Research Associate at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the Royal Ontario Museum. In addition to her board membership on Two Countries, One Forest, she also served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) from 2000-2006.

Roberta Clowater, Vice-Chair, Two Countries, One Forest
Roberta Clowater is the Executive Director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, New Brunswick Chapter (CPAWS NB). She was formerly the Coordinator for CPAWS NB's predecessor, the NB Protected Natural Areas Coalition, for twelve years. Roberta has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Arts degree in Regional Planning and Resource Development from the University of Waterloo. She is Chair of the NB government's Protected Natural Areas Provincial Advisory Committee, a member of the provincial government's Forestry Task Force, a member of the Premier's Round Table on Environment and Economy, and Chair of the (non-government) NB Crown Lands Network.

Karen Beazley, Secretary
Karen Beazley is Director and Associate Professor at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. She teaches Biodiversity considerations for conservation system design, Protected areas management, Environmental ethics, and Socio-political dimensions of resource and environmental management. Her research focuses on conservation area system design, focal species, and landscape and watershed planning. She has an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture and worked for six years as a landscape architect in London and Toronto, Ontario, where she won national and international awards for her designs for Ancaster Cemetery and Brittania School Farm. Her graduate degrees are in Geography (MA) and Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD) (Biology, Philosophy and Environmental Studies). She has been a professor at Dalhousie University since 1998.

Karen is a Director with the Science and the Management of Protected Areas Association, and has in the past been President and Board member for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (NS Chapter), and Board member for the Ecology Action Centre. She is co-editor with Robert Boardman of Politics of the Wild: Canada and endangered species (Oxford University Press, 2001). She serves on Nova Scotia's Recovery Planning Team for American marten, Canada lynx and American moose. Her papers have been published in journals such as Ecological Applications, Environmental Conservation, Natural Areas Journal, Alces, and the Journal of Environmental Education. She currently lives on a 21- acre organic farm and woodlot in Summerville, NS, with her cats, Kelly and Ruby.

Louise Gratton
Louise Gratton is an Ecologist and Botanist, she has a Masters degree in Biology from UQAM (1981). She settled in Sutton Township in 1997, where she shares her time between her job as Director of Science and Stewardship for Nature Conservancy Canada, Quebec region, her work as scientific advisor for the Appalachian Corridor, and her outdoor and nature observation activities, which first attracted her to the region. Louise has solid expertise involving ecosystems and vegetation classification and mapping, environmental impacts studies and the protection, management and restoration of habitats. She has been working in this field for more than 20 years, and has participated in numerous projects involving the designation or management of protected areas, including the definition of criteria for selecting and maintaining habitat integrity and the design and implementation of conservation plans. Over the years, she has also shared her expertise as a volunteer, on several government advisory committees (Endangered plant advisory committee, Quebec's national parks advisory committee) and the boards of directors of several local and national environmental organizations (Nature Canada, Union québécoise pour la conservation de la nature, Fondation pour la sauvegarde des espèces menacées, Association des biologistes du Québec, Mont Echo Conservation Association).

Conrad Reining
Conrad Reining is the Northern Appalachians Director of the Wildlands Project (www.wildlandsproject.org), where he is responsible for coordinating efforts in the Northeastern US and Southeastern Canada, including conservation planning, outreach and fundraising. A major focus of his work from 2001-2006 was the development of a trans-border proposal for a network of linked conservation areas in the Northern Appalachians. He is now participating in a Two Countries, One Forest initiative to develop a comprehensive conservation strategy for the Northern Appalachians, and is collaborating in efforts to advance conservation in high priority linkage areas of the region. From 1991 to 1997, Conrad was the Washington, DC-based Director of Conservation International's (CI) Guatemala Program. In that position he co-directed the design and implementation of CI's conservation project, ProPetén, in Guatemala's northern lowland region.

Dirk Bryant
Dirk Bryant works for the Nature Conservancy as Director of Conservation Programs with the New York State Adirondack Chapter. Previous to this, he served as Co-Director of the World Resources Institute's (WRI's) Forest Program. During his 12-year tenure at WRI, Dirk initiated the Global Forest Watch network, which he directed from 1997-2003. He also led the first map-based assessment of remaining intact forests and historic loss of forest cover (The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge, 1997) and of potential threats to the world's coral reefs (Reefs at Risk: A Map-based Indicator of Threats to the World's Coral Reefs, 1998). Dirk has a Masters degree in Environmental Management from Duke University, and served as a Peace Corps fisheries volunteer (Senegal, 1984-6). After years of living in Washington DC, he moved to the Adirondack Park in 2003 with his wife Kara, in order to have a family and dedicate more time to fly fishing, hiking and skiing.

Joyce Jennings
Joyce is completing the final stage of her PhD in the emerging field of ecopsychology, a branch of depth psychology. Her research explores the deep and reflexive nature of the relationship between the environment and humanity: including how the natural environment forms the human psyche, how the human psyche responds to environments (natural and built), transpecies psychologies, and the concept of sentient landscapes. Joyce has conducted fieldwork on the influence of the built environment on communities both ecological and human, and on the role of cottage country as mediator between the ‘wild’ and ‘human’. Joyce has served on the board of the Morgan arboretum of McGill University, and the St. Lawrence Valley Ecomuseum. She has a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Economics, a diploma in environment from McGill University, and a Master of Arts in Depth Psychology.

Bill Webber
Dr. Bill Weber has worked for 30 years in the field of international conservation.  From 1988 to 1996, Dr. Weber directed the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Africa Program, initiating a Congo Basin Program that has created more than twenty new protected areas, produced the first reliable data on elephant and great ape populations, and reached out to form alliances with progressive commercial timber companies. During his seven years in Rwanda, he designed the highly successful mountain gorilla tourism program, launched several other major projects, and helped inspire and train a generation of Rwandan conservationists.  He is a recognized expert in human aspects of conservation and a pioneer of the modern ecotourism movement.

From 1996 to 2005, Dr. Weber returned to North America as Director of North America Programs for the WCS. He helped develop more than thirty projects in the US and Canada, addressing wildlife aspects of energy development, exurban sprawl, private lands stewardship, fire management, wilderness recreation, acid rain, and wildlands connectivity.

 Dr. Weber has authored dozens of articles on subjects ranging from community development to carnivore conservation and his work has been featured in numerous films. He is senior editor of African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation.His experiences in Rwanda are described in the book, In the Kingdom of Gorillas, which he wrote with his wife, Dr. Amy Vedder.  Their book was featured by BBC Wildlife in 2003 as one of “the most influential books from the past 40 years of wildlife publishing” and selected as one of the “Best Science and Nature books” by National Public Radio.  He is currently writing another book drawing on his experiences in Africa and North America