Tom Duffus
Vice President AND Northeast Representative, Conservation Acquisition
Tom provides leadership for our land conservation work in the northeastern U.S. including Maine and New York as well as Canadian partnerships. Tom was formerly our land conservation leader in the Midwest. He is a commissioner on the Land Trust Accreditation Commission and works closely with our Working Forest team across the Northern Forests. Tom has worked in land conservation since 1985, conserving over 550,000 acres of land and raising significant sums of private, mitigation and public funds for land conservation. He has extensive experience conserving forestland as well as farm, recreation, endangered species and wilderness lands, and is an experienced conservation easement practitioner.
Prior to coming to The Conservation Fund in 2005, Tom worked for The Nature Conservancy and the Adirondack Land Trust. He holds a Master of Forest Science degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Contact: tduffus@conservationfund.org Phone: 207 869-6085 Office: Maine
Projects
Ten Mile River Forest – New York
Located 75 miles from New York City between the Delaware River and the Catskill Mountains, the Ten Mile River...
Chadbourne Tree Farm in Maine
In 1634, William Chadbourne arrived in western Maine from England, sent by King Charles I to establish a sawmill...
Chadbourne Tree Farm – Maine
The Chadbourne Tree Farm in western Maine is one of America’s prized white pine forests, with a rich family history and exceptional...
Chadbourne Tree Farm
The Chadbourne Tree Farm in western Maine is one of America’s prized white pine forests, with a rich family history and exceptional...
Three Rivers Forest – New York
Roughly 51,334 acres sitting deep in the heart of Adirondack Park are now on a path toward permanent protection,...
Pleasant River Headwaters Forest – Maine
The nearly 27,000 acre Pleasant River Headwaters Forest is one of the last remaining large, unprotected forest blocks in...
Cowee Forest
Cowee Forest consists of several parcels of former privately-owned forestland scattered along the borders where New York, Vermont and...
Kendall Forest: Supporting Rural Economies and Traditions in New York’s Tug Hill Region
Upstate New York’s Tug Hill region, also known as Tug Hill Plateau, is known for its timber industry, snowfall...
Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge
At Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge, snowy boreal forests give way to temperate deciduous forests, creating a unique habitat that...
Big Trout Bay, Ontario
There’s a reason the Great Lakes are called such – there’s simply no other word to describe this series...
Upper Mississippi Forest Project
Minnesota exemplifies a nationwide trend in forest loss: In the last 20 years the state has lost over a...
Totagatic River
The Totagatic River flows for 70 miles through five counties in northern Wisconsin, forming a wild and pristine stream...
Sturgeon River
Nature-based tourism is an important economic base in many communities, especially in rural places like Michigan’s famed Upper Peninsula...
Pershing State Park
Pershing State Park’s wet prairies and bottomland forests teem with diverse birds, endangered Indiana bats and lush plants.
In 2009,...
Palisades Preserve
In 2007, the Fund aided the Great Rivers Land Trust and its partners in the creation of the Palisades...
Nemadji River And Douglas County Forest
Back in 2010, the Fund worked with Douglas County to protect nearly 4,000 acres along the Nemadji River, safeguarding...
Namekagon Barrens
The Namekagon Barrens in northwest Wisconsin are actually anything but barren. The mix of brush, prairie and forest provide...
Minnesota Northwoods
Minnesota’s outdoor legacy is renowned. But across much of northern Minnesota, large swaths of industrial forestland—or those lands owned...
Helping the YMCA of Duluth Save Camp Miller
For more than a century, the YMCA of Duluth has offered summer resident camps and outdoor, environmental education opportunities...
Downeast And Eastern Maine
Eastern Maine and its famed coastal area known as Downeast Maine has a one-of-a-kind beauty, with pristine forests, clean...
Brule-St. Croix Legacy Forest
Working forests define the northern Wisconsin landscape, providing timber for the state’s mills, jobs for local residents, tax revenues...
Brule River State Forest
Anyone seeking to escape into the great outdoors can do so in Wisconsin’s Brule River State Forest. This forest...
Adirondack Park
Encompassing one-third of the total land area of New York State, Adirondack Park is a unique collection of public...
Conservation Acquisition
