Legacy Land Trust : Creating a legacy of farm, ranch and natural lands in northern Colorado

Staff

Ryan Boggs,Executive Director. Ryan comes to Legacy Land Trust with nine years experience with Colorado Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Ryan received his B.S. in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University and is a native of Fort Collins with many family members in the area. He started his conservation career at the Phantom Canyon Preserve in the Laramie Foothills area of Larimer County and later served as a Project Director for the Aiken Canyonlands and Chico Basin areas. As an experienced wildland firefighter he also worked on forest and fire restoration as well as land protection issues. Ryan brings a wealth of land conservation experience to Legacy Land Trust along with a desire to bring a balanced and healthy land protection program to our Front Range communities. Growing up in Fort Collins gives him a perspective on the rapid changes that have taken place and he sees many opportunities for retaining some of the rural patterns that make our three county area such a unique and inspiring place in which to reside. Contact Ryan: rboggs@legacylandtrust.org

K-Lynn Cameron, Director of Conservation. A Colorado native, K-Lynn Cameron joined the Legacy Land Trust in 2011 as Director of Conservation. In 2009, K-Lynn retired from Larimer County after 26 years; first as Parks Planner and then as the Manager of the Open Lands Program. As the first Manager of Larimer County’s Open Lands Program, she provided strategy and leadership to protect over 42,000 acres of land with local and state partners. Altogether these lands preserve wildlife habitat, agriculture, river corridors, community buffers and sensitive ecosystems, and provide recreational access for hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, bicycling, fishing, picnicking, nature study and more.

K-Lynn holds a Master's degree from Colorado State University's Department of Recreation and Tourism and is recognized statewide as a land conservation and open space professional. She was instrumental in creating the successful Colorado Open Space Alliance (COSA), a statewide organization of publicly funded open space programs, and her active involvement in COSA from its inception in 1999 through 2009 has ensured its success. K-Lynn received the 2009 COSA Blue Grama Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Individual and the 2009 Environmental Stewardship Award from Larimer County. Additionally, she was a board member of the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts from 2002-2009, demonstrating her commitment to land conservation space statewide. Currently she serves on the Land Conservation and Stewardship Board for the City of Fort Collins and as a Director on the Board of Embrace Northern Colorado.
Contact K-Lynn: K-Lynn@legacylandtrust.org

Amy Hahn, Director of Development Amy Hahn comes to us from the outdoor industry, where she worked for 17 years as an independent sales representative in climbing and outdoor equipment until 2008. For the past 3 years she's consulted for overseas outdoor apparel companies on product development and marketing for the US market. Originally she hails from the Washington, D.C. area, where she got her first taste of the outdoors in the Blue Ridge mountains and Great Falls National Park, on trips with her father. She spends as much time as possible in the mountains, trail running, hiking, skiing and climbing. She's a passionate globe-trotter. She holds a B.S. in health sciences and has worked with young and adult women promoting healthy body image through outdoor activity. She's been active in conservation since moving to Colorado in 1988, not just of landscapes but also cultural conservation in the Asian sub-continent. Amy will be heading up fundraising efforts, special events, outreach, general fundraising, marketing and individual donor services. Contact Amy: Amy@legacylandtrust.org

Jessica Anderson Pisano, Operations Manager
Jessica Pisano comes to Legacy Land Trust with a diverse resume of domestic/international professional business and outdoor experience and pursuits. Her early outdoor adventures and memories began in an orange VW van at the ripe age of 7 traveling with her parents, five siblings, two dogs and two cats in a sixteen hour jog from Kensington Maryland to a lobsterman's home on a remote island in Friendship, Maine. The island house has no phone, roads, electricity or running water, and it was there that she first connected with the solace of being outdoors. That annual trip continues 32 years later, carrying the legacy along to 12 nieces and nephews. She went on to graduate magna cum laude from Lewis & Clark college in sociology and anthropology. She has worked for a variety of management consulting organizations in global leadership, executive development and training, environmental consulting, engineering, technology and finance, and farming in Nepal. The short list of her client companies include fortune 100, 500 and Global 1000 companies such as Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Novartis, Time Warner, Sprint and Johnson & Johnson.

Additional endeavors include living abroad with host families in Cuernevaca, Mexico and San Jose, Costa Rica, and professional study and business in Ireland, Argentina, Switzerland, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, and Nepal. She’s trekked in the Brooks Range Alaska with Outward Bound and learned to sail in the British Virgin Islands. When she’s not piloting a sailboat or a desk she takes in the outdoors, hiking, walking, cycling and photographing the exquisite abundance of natural life. She’s a member of Human Dynamics International and the Feldenkrais Education Foundation of North America. Jessica's role as Operations Manager of Legacy Land Trust includes management of donor databases and membership services as well as the day-to-day office operations to include financial record management, payroll, coordination of fundraising and public relations events as well as direct support to the Director of Conservation and Legacy Land Trust’s Conservation Easements.