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open spaces, and by support- ing people and organizations that are making that happen." - Jessica Lone and Martha Sullins To read about AFT's work in the Rocky Mountain region, go to www.farmland. org/regions/ index. htm. New Chair and Two Additions to AFT Board A M E R I C A N FARMLAND S P R I N G 2 0 0 2 Douglas P. Wheeler American Farmland Trust's new chairman of the board has a long history with the organi- zation. Doug Wheeler was a co- founder of AFT and served as its president from 1980 to 1985. Over the years he has watched the organization grow from a small staff to its current number of 100. And now he is Conservation Foundation, and most recently, as Secretary for Resources in California. He received his law degree from Duke University and is a part- ner in the environmental prac- tice of Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. Wheeler is a visiting lecturer at the Duke University School of Law and serves on advisory committees for the World Wildlife Fund and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Wheeler and his wife, Heather, make their home in Washington, D.C. Julia H. Widdowson One of AFT's newest board members, Julia Harte Widdowson, has a relationship with American Farmland Trust through someone she knows very well: her father, Ed Harte, a life director and the Peggy Rockefeller chair on AFT's board. Widdowson says that her main interests are pretty well reflected in her volunteer work, and can be summed up by the following two words: conserva- tion and preservation. Her heart lies in land conservation, farm protection and environ- mental issues in general, as well prepared to lead AFT at a time as architectural preservation when the organization is posi- tioned as the premier national farmland protection entity in the country. In his career, Wheeler has served as deputy assistant sec- retary of the Interior, executive vice president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, executive director of the Sierra Club, vice president of the World Wildlife Fund and and decorative arts and the old houses that hold them. On her own time she is restoring a Greek revival house in Dutchess County, New York, and preparing to farm there this spring. Widdowson sits on several boards, including The Nature Conservancy of Eastern New York, Friends of the Upper East Side, the Trust for Public