Our Board

Worcester County Conservation District Board

WCCD plays an important role in the delivery and implementation of conservation practices that conserve soil, maintain water quality and protect natural resources. Our single mission is to coordinate assistance from all available sources-public and private, local, state and federal – in an effort to develop locally driven solutions to natural resource concerns. The effectiveness of WCCD is derived from our knowledgeable and concerned board of supervisors, who guide how we use resources, authority, and partnerships to meet local resource concerns.

WCCD Board is comprised of seven (7) Supervisors (voting members) and four (4) Associate Members (non-voting members).

We meet monthly, every 3rd Wednesday and Meetings are open to the public.

To learn more about the role of a supervisor, click here: WCCD Supervisor Job Description 2021

NAT BICKFORD

NAT BICKFORD

Conservation Planner

Nat was born and raised in Southern Maine, now residing in Worcester. Nat went to Clark University receiving their bachelor's in environmental science with a concentration in conservation biology. In their spare time Nat enjoys hiking, foraging, and painting.

Lisa Trotto

Lisa Trotto

Part Time Administrator

Lisa Trotto, has been a part of the WCCD team since 2002, starting out as Seedling Coordinator until 2005, when she became Administrator. Lisa is also a contractor for the state for more than ten years, monitoring lands in Central and Western Massachusetts, with Agricultural Preservation Restrictions easements. She enjoys being a local beekeeper and managing hives for Wachusett Honey in the towns of Holden, Princeton and Sterling.

Kathryn Zichelle Sullivan

Kathryn Zichelle Sullivan

Associate Supervisor

Kathryn has been a part of the WCCD team since 2019. Kathryn has over 20 years of experience in land management and conservation. She also works as a private consultant, doing a variety of environmental projects. Her work includes agricultural easement monitoring, property baseline assessments, and farmland restoration plans. Kathryn served as a Soil Conservationist with NRCS for over 17 years in Massachusetts. She worked directly with farmers and landowners guiding them through the planning process and Program opportunities to help each reach their conservation goals. She enjoys hiking and biking; and sitting at the outdoor patio, built during the first weeks of Covid, considering what to plant next.

Chairman, Tristan Lundgren

Tristan Lundgren

Chairman, State Commission Representative, Supervisor

Tristan Lundgren is currently employed by the Massachusetts Division of Water Supply Protection at the Wachusett Reservoir as an Enviromental Analyst. Tristan has a BS in Geography from Bridgewater State University ’91, MS in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University ’96. Resides In Sterling and formerly a Cranberry farm worker. Tristan is an avid gardener who also enjoys hiking, camping and kayaking.

Scott Davis

Scott Davis

Co-Chairman, Supervisor

Scott Davis, of Rutland, an information systems professional retired from the insurance industry, is an active volunteer in local agricultural organizations. He is a member of the Worcester County Beekeepers, Massachusetts Farm Bureau, Massachusetts Maple Producers, a past chair of the Rutland Agriculture Commission, and is Vice Moderator for the Town of Rutland. A past master of Rutland Grange, he currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts State Grange as their Agriculture Education Coordinator. For MDAR he is a team leader for the Farm Viability Enhancement Program, and was previously a program manager for their agriculture business planning program. He is also a member of the Friends of Treasure Valley (Boy Scout Camp), Rutland First Congregational Church and the Rutland Historical Society. A supervisor of the former Northwest Worcester County Conservation District previously, he is currently an associate supervisor of WCCD. He is married with two adult children and four active grandchildren.

Jenny Stimson

Jenny Stimson

Supervisor, Treasurer

Jenny Stimson is passionate about the business of business specializing in custom software setups and training. Jenny’s forte in business is streamlining, increasing profitability, and correcting operational issues while tackling multiple compliance issues. She has been in business and operations management for over 30 years, and 25 years working as a QuickBooks ProAdvisor, traveling the country problem solving. Jenny’s experience ranges from IRS audits over 136 Federal entities as well as Wage and Hour, State and Local Tax audits, payroll tax analysis prior to mergers and acquisitions, software development and computer hardware installation. Jenny is also passionate about nurturing the land with healthy soil practices, planting natives and pollinators for the environment. She recently rescued and rehabilitated her property and learned about WCCD through our soil sampling services.

Supervisor Susan Phinney

Susan Phinney

Supervisor

Susan Phinney (Phinney) has been involved with the agricultural community in New England for over 25 years. She has been involved in a variety of topics including beginning farmers, farmland access, farmland preservation, conservation practices to improve water quality and sourcing local products for a large grocery retailer. Phinney works as a consultant for farmers, farmland preservation and food related organizations. Moving to Worcester County in 2008, Phinney started raising goats on part of a former dairy farm and has been raising goats on Locust Knoll Farm since 2009.

Co-Chairman, Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith

Supervisor

Joe Smith is an Environmental Consultant and Massachusetts Licensed Forester living in Phillipston. He has been a Worcester County District Supervisor for over 20 years and first became involved through volunteering for the annual seedling sale back in 1984. Joe served as the chairman of the State Commission for Conservation of Soil, Water and Related Resources from 2008 to 2017. He is currently the President of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Districts. He also serves as the Northeastern US representative on the National Association of Conservation District’s Forestry Resource Policy Group.

Treasurer, Wayne Jordan

Wayne Jordan

Associate Member

Wayne Roger Jordan is a life-long dairy farmer following in the footsteps on his father and grandfather. In 1943 his father Howard Jordan moved from Holden where he had operated Cleighton Farm with his brother Sumner to Rutland, to establish Jordan Dairy Farm and raise his family. Wayne grew up on this farm, attended Rutland and Wachusett District schools, and later ran Jordan Dairy Farm with his brother Warren. In addition, Wayne served as an on call Rutland fire fighter for 35 years, a County Farm Bureau Director for 28 years, and a WCCD Supervisor for 36 years. With operations now turned over to sons Randy and Brian and expanded to a second farm in Spencer, Wayne continues to work at Jordan Dairy Farms. Four grandchildren are in line to be fifth generation dairy farmers and carry on the Jordan family tradition.

Edward Himlan

Edward Himlan

Associate Member

Edward Himlan, Director of MA Watershed Coalition: The mission of the Massachusetts Watershed Coalition is to protect and restore streams, lakes, and water supplies. MWC Executive Director Ed Himlan has thirty five years’ experience in watershed management and education. Ed has expertise in water protection planning; public policy; grassroots groups; local assistance; and public presentations. He has served on many state and federal advisory groups, as well as the boards of local conservation organizations.
Ed has a Master’s degree in Natural Resources Planning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ed has helped town officials, businesses, homeowners, contractors and community groups to create more than eighty rain gardens and other stormwater solutions. The educational materials and runoff remedies created by these activities offer practical examples and guidance that can help people to improve the health of local streams and lakes.

Hannah Lipper

Hannah Lipper

Supervisor

Hannah Lipper is a ceramicist and Assistant Town Clerk for the Town of Paxton. In addition to serving as an Assistant Supervisor with WCCD, she is also a member of the Holden Conservation Commission where she works to preserve wetlands and conservation space in her town. She holds a Masters of Public Health from BU School of Public Health and enjoys integrating conservation work with environmental health and health equity. She lives in Holden.

Steve La Rivee, Associate Member

Steve La Rivee, Associate Member

Steve La Rivee is from Fitchburg Ma. He is the President of Worcester County League of Sportsman‘s Clubs, Conservation Secretary for the Worcester County League of Sportsman Clubs, Board member of the Massachusetts Junior Conservation Camp and Associate Supervisor of Worcester County Conservation District. Steve is a Trees and Safety Instructor and Trainer; and the State Coordinator for the Tree Stand Manufacturer's Association. Steve's outdoor interests are hunting, fishing, conservation, and he is learning to trap.