Speaker: David Sutherland , Director of Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy's Connecticut Chapter
Biography:
David Sutherland has been the Director of Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy's Connecticut Chapter for the past fourteen years to preserve open space across the state. He helped to negotiate real estate agreements to protect the Kelda Company's 15,000 acres, the Trout Brook Valley and Stratford Great Meadows in Fairfield County, and tracts at Robbins Swamp in Falls Village and Kongscut Mountain in Glastonbury. He has also lobbied for tax incentives to encourage conservation and laws to ensure the permanence of conservation restrictions. He was appointed by the Speaker of the House to the Connecticut Invasive Plants Council, and also served on the Governor's Stakeholder Dialogue on Climate Change in 2004.