Cliff Brown – Managing Partner, BG Partners, LLC, a natural gas development & production company. Cliff has been active in wildlife and wetland habitat development since 1993. In addition to his diverse activities associated with the Maryland Wood Duck Initiative, he is also a Contributing Field Editor for Waterfowler.com and is active in Ducks Unlimited having been a sponsor for more than 30 years. Cliff was named as the first recipient of Ducks Unlimited’s Maryland Volunteer Conservationist of the Year award in 2006.

Buzzy Abbott – President, CKA Tree Service, Inc. Annapolis. Buzzy has developed and manages a wetland/wildlife habitat program including a 35 nest box program on his Dorchester County farm.

John Chew – John Chew is an avid outdoorsman and waterfowl hunter.  He retired from the National Park Service after 25 years of service in various National Parks, including Shenandoah, Yosemite, Lake Meade, Glen Canyon and Yukon Charlie in Alaska. During those assignments he was involved in many habitat improvement projects.  John has been a member of Ducks Unlimited since 1968 and has been the founding member of three chapters and Chapter Chairman for five chapters around the USA.  He is currently the Sponsor Chairman for the Annapolis Chapter where he has been a member since 1986. John currently serves as the Director of Emergency Services for Queen Anne’s County. He enjoys fishing and working his dogs for ducks and geese on the Eastern Shore.

Kevin Colbeck – Founder, SMGC, a wildlife habitat and farm management company since 1994, Kevin has planted thousands of acres of warm and cool season grasses in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. An avid outdoorsman, Kevin was named Maryland’s 2005 Conservationist of the Year by Gov. Ehrlich’s Wildlife Advisory Commission. He also manages a 30 nest box program on the family farm in Queen Anne County.

Bill Harvey – Game Bird Section Leader for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife and Heritage Service. Bill's 16 years of experience in Maryland has involved research, monitoring and management of waterfowl and other game birds. He has conducted the breeding pair survey for Atlantic Population Canada geese in northern Quebec since 1993 and is active in goose management issues through the Atlantic Flyway Council Technical Section. Prior to coming to Maryland, Bill worked for 2 years in South Carolina focusing on wood duck ecology and management. Bill holds a B.S. from the University of Vermont and M.S. from Cornell University.

Chip Heaps – Senior Regional Director – Maryland, Ducks Unlimited. Chip, a biologist by education, joined DU’s staff in 1990 after many years working as a volunteer. He also serves as Vice Chairman of Maryland’s Migratory Game Bird Committee.

Rich Mason – Rich is in his 18th year as a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Chesapeake Bay Field Office. For many years he served an environmental education biologist and developed the Schoolyard Habitat Program. His current duties include working with private landowners on a variety of habitat restoration projects under the national program, Partners for Fish and Wildlife. Rich is an avid conservationist who enjoys fishing, camping, hiking, messing about in small boats, playing softball, and many other outdoor activities. Rich is a board member of the Scenic Rivers Land Trust, a local land trust dedicated to protecting natural areas along the rivers of Anne Arundel County. Rich developed and now manufactures a device called the Froglog that allows small animals to escape from swimming pools. He lives in Crownsville Maryland with his wife and two children.

Jerry McCarty – Project Manager, Geospatial Information Technology, Michael Baker Corp. Jerry and Baker’s teams focus on helping Federal, State and Local Governments implement enterprise geospatial information systems and services. Jerry assists MWDI with website administration and is a committee member and sponsor of the Potomac Valley Chapter, Ducks Unlimited.

Tod Sedgwick – Principal, Sedgwick Publishing and President, Red Hills Lumber. An accomplished business executive, Tod is actively involved in wildlife habitat, land preservation and other conservation issues serving as Board member for the Civil War Preservation Trust, Trustee for Wetlands America Trust – a Ducks Unlimited affiliate, Founder - Winous Point Conservancy (Ohio), as a Forest Trends Fellow and an Advisory Council Member of the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation among others.