Mission Statement
It is the Mission of the Catoctin Land Trust to preserve and protect the rural landscape and cultural history of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont regions in Central Maryland, Northern Virginia, Northern West Virginia and Southern Pennsylvania.
Jim Reed, President
Jim has been the Director of Stewardship for Wildlife Land Trust since 1999 where he is responsible for the management and protection of the Trusts properties. Prior to joining the Wildlife Land Trust he oversaw the Environmental and Forestry Programs for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation where his principal duties included protecting the Tribes treaty reserved rights (e.g. hunting and fishing) and overseeing on and off reservation environmental issues that affected the Tribes interests. Jim earned an Associates Degree in Wildlife and Park Management from Frederick Community College, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Studies from Slippery Rock University and a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Biology from Hood College.Jim Draper, Treasurer
Jim is the founding partner of the firm Draper & McGinley, PA a public accounting firm serving clients primarily in Frederick and Hagerstown. He grew upon a working farm in eastern Washington County, graduated from Mount Saint Mary's College, where he was a member of the faculty for ten years. Jim has been an active participant in many Frederick based service and nonprofit organizations, currently serves on the YMCA Board and is the Treasurer of two land trusts.Adam Griggs, Secretary
Adam is an Aquatic Ecologist with the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. His current responsibilities include performing research and analysis on the waters and aquatic life of the Potomac Basin. Formerly, Adam was the Potomac Watershed Coordinator and concentrated on increasing stakeholder and citizen involvement in watershed protection, and providing capacity-building support to Potomac non-profit citizen watershed organizations. Adam was born and raised in the Monocacy Watershed and has been working in this area for his entire professional career. He has a B.S. in Biology from Coastal Carolina University and an M.S. in Environmental Biology from Hood College.Donald N. Briggs, Immediate Past Chairman
Don, Frederick County resident, principal of Briggs Associates, Inc., Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants. Licensed appraiser in Maryland and licensed real estate broker in MD and PA. Designated member of the Appraisal Institute, MAI (1985), SRA, and SPRA. US Green Building Council LEED AP. State of Maryland's only realtor with the National Association of Realtors' Green designation. NAR Instructor for the Green Designation.Bryan Seipp
Bryan is the Director of Restoration for the Potomac Conservancy where he is responsible for working with individual landowners, organizations and governments to improve water quality by restoring stream buffers, building Low Impact Design stormwater management facilities, and managing agriculture and forested properties. Additionally Bryan conducts annual stewardship visits to many of the Conservancy’s easements and provides management advice to those landowners. Prior to joining the Potomac Conservancy in 2003, Bryan worked for the Maryland DNR-Forest Service as a Watershed Forester in Frederick and Washington Counties. Bryan has a B.S. in Forest Resource Management from Virginia Tech, is a licensed professional forester in Maryland, is a member of the Society of American foresters, is a certified Tree Farm Inspector, and certified SCUBA diver.Steve Quarles
Steve is a partner and former chair of the Environment & Natural Resources Group of the Washington, DC law firm of Crowell & Moring LLP. His practice includes counseling, litigation and legislative representation for a wide range of forest products, mining, agricultural and land development associations and companies, state and local governments, and land conservation trusts. He addresses issues concerning wildlife and endangered species, federal lands (including mineral, forestry, land exchange, and access law), and water and air pollution (including matters involving nonpoint source controls and point source permitting, impaired waters and Total Maximum Daily Loads, and wetlands regulation). Steve serves on the 6-member U.S. delegation to the Bi-National Softwood Lumber Council, established in accordance with Article XIII and Annex 13 of the 2006 Canada-United States Softwood Lumber Agreement. He is also a member of the Secretary of the Interior's Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee and the Secretary of Agriculture's National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board.Marty Martin
Marty was born in neighboring Loudoun County, Virginia, and grew up in the forties and fifties on dairy and beef farms. The Martin side of the family has farmed in Frederick County, Maryland, for four generations. Marty left the area to serve in the military and later earned a B.S. in Geography from the University of South Florida. Marty has worked for the US Geological Survey, Southwest Florida Water Management District, National Park Service (Shenandoah National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway), the Maryland DNR, and abroad. In 1981, he bought a small farm in neighboring Jefferson County, West Virginia. Marty now works as a free-lance biologist and conducts a long-term study on the timber rattlesnake, ongoing since 1973. He is currently a co-editor on the Timber Rattlesnake Conservation Action Plan, a project coordinated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.