Busy Shires Byerly: Executive Director, received a B.A. in Geography from the University of Florida in 1997. From 1991 to 1992, she attended Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia. A graduate of the Florida Natural Resources Leadership Institute in 2002, she has worked on projects for The Wildlands Project and the National Gap Analysis Program. She is a former newspaper reporter for the Alachua Post (2001 - 2003) and she was the Land Conservation Specialist for an environmental consulting firm Conway Conservation (1998 - 2001). She worked as a groom and rider for horse farms until her first professional job in 1998. She is also a member of the Town of Micanopy's Planning and Historic Preservation Board (2004 - present). She is a native of Alachua County and grew up on a horse farm and still rides dressage. Her family owns and operates Gold Leaf Farm, the 1970's host for the Canadian Event Team. She works for CTF because she believes that she understands the issues that farm owners face as they consider long-term land conservation goals for their families and their farms.

Ellen Huntley Dube: Land Conservation Director. Ellen has 12 years of experience in sustainable agriculture, land-use planning, and not-for-profit management. In collaboration with the University of Florida and Institute of Food and Agriculture Science Cooperative Extension, she has trained farmers in market development, organic farming systems, conservation, and utilization of technical assistance programs of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the USDA. Ellen is a coauthor to the Department of Defense published paper: Land Corridors in the Southeast: Connectivity to Protect Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. She assisted in coordinating the North Florida Local Food Partnership which established the first local farm product label in the Southeastern U.S. Ellen has administered federal, state, and local government and foundation grants for program budgets of up to $450,000. She directed a community food and nutrition project that reached 2500 participants annually from 1999 to 2005 and raised $900,000 through fundraising efforts including annual drive, special events and grant solicitations and earned-income programming during this time. A native of Florida, Ellen received a B.S. in Chemistry from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina (1991) and completed her M.S. in Soil and Water Sciences at the University of Florida (1997). Ellen taught Secondary School Science as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, West Africa, from 1991 to 1993. She is a member of the Florida Association of Environmental Soil Scientists.

Dr. Thomas Scott Hoctor: Research Scientist and Greenways Coordinator. Tom is a Research Associate at the GeoPlan Center in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. He has M.S. from the University of Florida in Forest Resource and Conservation specializing in conservation biology and policy. His undergraduate studies were in History and Science from Harvard University where he received a Harvard College Scholarship and a John Winthrop Scholarship for academic achievement. He has worked on numerous research projects including, the following: A joint Army Corps of Engineers/U. S. Department of Defense project to identify listed species and identify natural resource conservation opportunities on lands surrounding eleven military bases in the Piedmont ecoregion of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina; A project to develop recommendations and tools to facilitate regional ecological assessments in all U.S. EPA regions; a project with Region 4 EPA and the EPA OPEI to survey existing regional assessment efforts and develop guidelines that can be used to conduct regional assessments of areas critical for conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services; identification of reserve options for protecting federally listed species in South Florida, 2002-. Working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dr. Karen Root of Applied Biomathematics and Bowling Green University, and Frank Mazzotti et al. from the University of Florida to update habitat models for listed species and develop reserve options and priorities for conserving all federally listed species while maximizing benefits to the region’s overall biodiversity. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Kristianna J. Lindgren: Land Conservation Assistant Director. Kristianna is a third year law student at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law in Gainesville, FL. She will graduate in August 2010 with a Juris Doctor and a Certificate in Land-Use and Environmental Law. She is also seeking a Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Ecology. Her thesis topic is Interspecific Plant Competition Across a Salinity Gradient in the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. She has participated in wetland research projects documenting plant communities throughout the state of Florida, including the Everglades and the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes. Prior to beginning her Master's research, she assisted with data collection and analysis for a recreational visitor study in Rookery Bay, Florida and coauthored the resulting publication. Before starting with CTF, Kristianna was a legal extern for two semesters with the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department, for the Alachua County Forever Program, the county's land conservation program..

Vicki Leslie Duncan: Development Director, co-founder of Trilogy School “Education for Life”, she helped create Trilogy from its inception, administered, and taught at the private school from 1992 – 2003.  During this time, she worked with governmental agencies, contacted potential parents, organized meetings, developed curriculum, and organized mail outs.  She received a B.A. in Education from the University of Florida in 1986 and taught in several public schools in Alachua County and one in Marion County.  She worked at Environmental Science and Engineering, Inc. where she produced a herbarium plant collection for a military project and worked in the chemistry division in 1978-1979. She was an agriculture agent for Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania in 1977-1978, and she worked at the University of Florida for IFAS in the Herbarium as an assistant to Daniel Ward, the curator, in 1975-1976. She took botany, agriculture and ornamental horticulture classes at this time.  Vicki enjoys being in nature and likes biking, sailing, kayaking/canoeing, and hiking.