Kansas Land Trust
Board, Staff, Interns, & Volunteers

Beverley J. Worster
President - Board of Directors

Retired teacher, workshop leader and sheep farmer.


Catherine Hauber
Vice President - Board of Directors
Attorney at Law
Kelly Kindscher
Secretary - Board of Directors

Plant Ecologist, Kansas Biological Survey

Bryan Welch
Treasurer - Board of Directors
Publisher and General Manager of Ogden Publications, Inc.
Lynn Byczynski
Board of Directors

Publisher of monthly magazine for market farmers and flower farmer

Myrl Duncan
Board of Directors
Professor, Washburn University School of Law
Julie Elfving
Board of Directors
Julie is a retired Environmental Scientist and is an active Board Member of the Kansas Rural Center. She is also a Johnson County Master Gardener with a strong interest in naturalistic landscaping concepts. Julie is particularly interested in issues related to urbanizing watersheds, such as loss of farmland, open space, and storm water management. She lives in Olathe. KLT welcomed Julie to the Board in 2003.
Burke Griggs
Board of Directors

Water and Environmental Lawyer, Stevens & Brand, LLP, Lawrence, Kansas
Chelsi Hayden
Board of Directors

Attorney at Law

Donna Luckey
Board of Directors

Professor, University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design
RoxAnne Miller
Former Executive Director
Thank you, RoxAnne! KLT would like to thank RoxAnne for almost seven years of dedicated service as Executive Director. Although RoxAnne is leaving KLT, she is not leaving the land trust community; she has taken a position with the Catawba Lands Conservancy of Charlotte, North Carolina. Since RoxAnne started with KLT in 2001, the Land Trust has more than tripled the number of easements it holds and total acres protected. RoxAnne’s passion for land conservation will be missed and KLT wishes her the best in North Carolina.

Steve Roels

Conservation Associate

Steve Roels joined KLT in November 2006. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Calvin College ( Grand Rapids, Michigan) in May 2006. Previously, Steve served as a field surveyor for the Michigan Breeding Bird Atlas and as a research intern at Michigan State University ( East Lansing, MI) and Sam Houston State University ( Huntsville, TX).
Special Thanks:
Laurie Turrell Ward
KLT thanks Laurie Ward for her years of dedicated service as Executive Director (1998-2001) and Special Projects Director (2001-2003). As Elizabeth Schultz wrote, "Her energetic, dedicated, and visionary leadership has provided a sound basis for the ongoing development of the KLT and of our community's education about conservation as we work together to understand and to preserve the wonders of the Kansas lands."

Laurie has worked with KLT as a member and volunteer since its inception in 1990. In addition to her roles as Executive Director and Special Projects Coordinator, she was also the volunteer Lawrence coordinator of the 1997 Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance Rollin' Down the River Festival, a KLT project. Luckily for KLT, Laurie plans to remain involved with KLT as her role continues to change.
KLT Thanks:
Former Board and staff members
As Laurie Ward wrote in 2000, the real heroes of KLT are the various individuals who have served voluntarily on the Board of Directors. This board provides expertise in law, accounting, finance, real estate, conservation, biology, insurance, fund raising, writing, design, communications, education, administration, planning, and much more…

KLT founding board members listed in the Articles of Incorporation, July, 1990, are: Sarah Dean, Ernie Eck, Steve Hamburg, Marsha Marshall, Diane Simpson, John Simpson, Sandra Strand, Bill Ward, and. Joyce Wolf.

Expanding and succeeding this group have been: Lynn Byczynski, Brian Donahue, Myrl Duncan, Julie Elfving, Sidney Garrett, Mary Louise Gibson, Mark Gonzalez, Bill Hambleton, Catherine Hauber, Chelsi Hayden, Kelly Kindscher, Leo Lauber, donna luckey, Sandy McCoy, Tim Metz, James Minnerath, Rick Mitchell, Rich Niebaum, Bruce Plenk, Bob Russell, Sandra Shaw, Cathy Tortorici, Bryan Welch, Bev Worster, and Don Worster.

KLT Thanks:
Previous Interns

Jami Jeffery, Planning Intern, 2006-2007

Sarah Cross and Shay Brown, Planning Interns, 2005-2006

Kiet Luu, Erin Paden, and Staci Henry, Planning Interns, 2004

Zack Anthony, Legal Intern, 2003

Casey Mulligan and Samantha Nondorf, Journalism Interns, 2002

Lori Kruger, Andrea Repinsky, and Yoshi Terai, Planning Interns, 2002

Amy Trainer, Legal Intern, 2000

Cati Coy and Katie Jaeger, Journalism Interns, 2000

KLT Thanks:
Kansas Land Trust's volunteers
Volunteers are essential to any grassroots non-profit organization like the Kansas Land Trust. KLT volunteers have taken on various tasks that have made a real difference to the organization such as landscape artist Lisa Grossman's donation of images for posters and KLT notecards, and Paul Hotvedt's work organizing the Kansas Conference on Imagination and Place in 2001 and again in 2003.

Also, many thanks to Elizabeth Schultz for providing her newsletter feature "Senses of Place" a favorite feature of the KLT newsletter to many readers.

KLT volunteers include: Kelly Barth, John Bird, Lisa Grossman, Doug and RuthAnn Guess, Belinda Hoover, Paul Hotvedt, Linda Lang, Soren Larsen, Carolyn Micek, Nancy Mitchell, James Nedresky, Elizabeth Schultz and Martha Slater.
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