Henry Hardy

Henry, with his wife, Teresa, and three children, milk 40 head of registered Ayrshires twice a day on their organic dairy farm. He works in the woods doing selective cutting during the winter and makes maple syrup in the spring. Henry is currently the treasurer of the Franklin County Farm Bureau, the president of the New England and the Maine State Ayrshire Clubs and a Franklin County 4-H Dairy Club leader. He is also a past-president of Franklin County Extension Executive Board and has taught a tractor safety course for many years.

Pam Harnden

Pam has served on the Board since 1996. She is employed as a staff writer for the Sun Media Group. She is education-oriented and whenever possible, works with the children's programs.

Frank Forster

Frank joined the FCSWCD Board of Supervisors in February of 2011. Frank Forster and Lynn Ricardo purchased their farm in New Vineyard in 2002. They now raise black Angus beef cattle. Frank has served on the New Vineyard Board of Selectmen and the Franklin County Farm Bureau.

Bill Berry

I have been an associate member of the Soil and Water Conservation District for about 20 years.  I have been a part-time farmer with a herd of Herefords since 1975.  Having been a professor of Geology at UMF for 26 years I have experience in my background that relates directly to my work with soil and water conservation.

Robert John “Bob” Leso

Bob grew up in Southern Maine in the Towns of Casco & Naples.  He graduated from Casco High School in 1960.  He graduated from the University of Maine - Orono in 1964 with a B.S. in Forestry. After working as a Peace Corps Volunteer for 3 years in the Peruvian Forest Service and serving in the U.S. Army for 2 years, with a Tour in Vietnam, he started work for the Maine Forest Service in 1970 as a Service Forester. He worked primarily in Franklin, Somerset and Northern Oxford counties advising non-industrial private woodland owners. He retired in 2006. Bob and his wife “Mimi” are members of the Maine Woodland Owners and own woodlots in Chesterville and New Sharon. The woodlots are in the Tree Farm Program. They have 2 sons and 2 grandsons. They have 1 cat.   Bob has been a member of the Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District since 2007 and was recently elected Vice-Chairman. Bob is also a member of the Chesterville Planning Board and the Maine Tree Farm Committee.

Linton Robinson

Linton has been an Associate Supervisor since 1992. He owns and operates the 268-acre LDR Farm, in Chesterville, Jay, & Perkins Plantation. Linton worked on his father’s farm and lumbering business for several years before starting his own beef herd and forest harvesting business. Linton and his wife Diane have 3 grown sons. He is active with both the Franklin County Farm Bureau past president and vice president and the State Forestry committee. Linton is on the Chesterville Planning Board and has been a member of the Maine Beef Producers Feeder Calf Sales since 1988. He received the Woodland Conservation Award in 1988.

Corey Ridley

New Associate Joined in December of 2021

Corie Willard, Executive Director
and Education Coordinator

Nathan “Nate” Holt

Nate joined the board as an associate supervisor in the summer of 2022 and was elected as a board supervisor in the fall. Nate is a registered Engineer Intern in the State of Maine as well as a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) with a working background in stream restoration and crossing projects, stormwater design/management, and erosion and sedimentation control best practices. He graduated from the University of Maine in 2020 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering with a Concentration in Water Resources Engineering. He is passionate about improving and maintaining the watersheds of the western Maine mountains to help preserve for future generations

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