William J. Ginn, 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, Vice-chair, Two Countries, One Forest
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.

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.

Roberta Clowater
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.