In Gratitude

Our founder Lou Mills, along with several active community members and conservation leaders in the county, set out to establish the Orange County Land Trust to help set a permanent foundation for a sustainable and vibrant Orange County. These visionary leaders understood the growing need for an organization like OCLT to take proactive measures to protect critical acreage, thereby helping to offset and maintain the impacts of rapid development and maintaining vital balance.

This page pays tribute to our founding and past board members for whom we owe our achievements to and whose commitment to our mission has made a lasting, perpetual impact. We are forever grateful for their contributions.

Today, and long into the future, we will continue to do what we were set out to do back in 1993 by ensuring that agriculture and nature continue to thrive alongside our communities.

Front, left to right: Founding board member, the late Ann Botshon, founding board member John Gebhards, and founder, the late Lou Mills.

Back, left to right: Founding board members Elmire Conklin, the late Jacques Levine, the late Bob Augello, the late Helmut Nimke, Linda Francis, Nancy Schneider, the late Art Lain, former board member and supporter Andy McLaughlin, volunteer Wendy Insinger (pictured sitting), and founding board member Jean Wort.