Buck O’Herin, Board President

Buck O’Herin has worked in the education and conservation fields for more than 35 years. He was a board member of the Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance beginning in 1999 and was the group’s first executive director. He taught semester-long environmental field study programs with the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute and Sterling College, and environmental and outdoor recreation courses at Unity College. From a young age he was drawn to the wild fringes of the built environment and has continued these sojourns in widening circles that eventually included the Arctic and deserts of the American southwest.

For ten years he ran a guiding business that offered wilderness canoeing and backpacking trips around the U.S. and Canada. He is a founder of the Waldo County Trails Coalition (WCTC) that in 2016 completed the 46-mile Hills to Sea Trail from Belfast to Unity and he is currently the part-time coordinator. Buck has a M.S. in Environmental Education and a B.S. in Secondary Education. He lives in Montville with his partner Lisa Newcomb and daughter Zaela.

Sally Butler, Secretary

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Sally Butler was a frequent visitor to Maine before moving to Waldoboro along the Medomak River in 2005.  A childhood in the English countryside gave her a life-long appreciation of animals and the natural world. She completed a three-year certification program for landscape design at Radcliffe; Sally chaired her town’s Open Space Committee and served for ten years as a Conservation Commissioner upholding the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act. Since settling in Waldoboro, Sally has been especially active in Medomak Valley Land Trust and has served on the board and the majority of the committees.  Conserving land for wildlife habitat is of particular importance to her.

For over 24 years she and her husband, Bob, owned The Jojoba Company where they worked together until the end of 2018 when they sold the company.  They traveled extensively for their company and now look forward to enjoying some personal travel adventures, as well as having more time for gardening.

Kathy Stevens, Interim Treasurer

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Kathy Stevens has over 20 years in the non-profit and education sectors. President and CEO at the Healthcare Initiative Foundation, Kathy previously served as executive director of the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy (MCAEL) for over 10 years, following career stops in higher education and an international nonprofit.

Kathy is a fundraiser, lawyer, community organizer and trained mediator. As a consultant, Kathy has provided strategic planning facilitation and board development to local nonprofits since 2018. Kathy has served on several boards and led a Montgomery County (Maryland) collective impact initiative, Montgomery Moving Forward, and currently serves on the Charles Koiner Conservancy for Urban Farming board in Silver Spring, MD.

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Kathy also holds a EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a J.D. from the University of Richmond. When not at work or a board meeting, Kathy loves a good hike with her black lab, Blair, finding live music, bringing people around a table, for a home cooked meal and conversation, being near water, especially Damariscotta Lake, and travel.

Joanne Steneck, Vice-President

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Joanne graduated from the University of Maine School of Law in 1987 and spent her legal career with the state regulatory agency, the Maine Public Utilities Commission. She was an attorney with the Commission until 1997 when she became General Counsel. As such, she supervised the legal division and was a member of the senior staff advising the three member commission on gas, electric and telecommunications matters. She oversaw the connection to the internet of Maine’s schools and libraries and was the manager of the first in the nation project providing laptops to all Maine seventh and eighth graders. She retired from the Commission in October 2014. Joanne has lived in Whitefield, Maine along the Sheepscot River since 1981 with her husband Robert, a professor of marine science at the University of Maine. She was a board member of the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association, a Midcoast Conservancy legazy organization, since 2008 and served as the Chair of their Lands Committee.