The Ven. Robert A. Bryan - Founding Chairman
Bob is QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment’s energetic Founder and Chairman, and Archdeacon of the North Shore (Quebec) Anglican Church of Canada (ministry by aircraft). He has a B.A. from Yale University and a M.Div. from Yale Divinity School. Bob is married to the Reverend Dr. Patricia Peacock of the Diocese of Quebec in the Anglican Church of Canada. Among Bob’s current board affiliations are The Atlantic Salmon Federation, the New England Grenfell Association, The Seaplane Pilots Association and the Waterfowl Research Foundation. In 1996, Bob was the first American to receive the Order of Merit, which recognizes individuals who have contributed in an exceptional way to the quality of life of the Quebec North Shore. Bob is co-author of “Bert and I … and Other Stories from Down East,” and three sequels with the late Marshall Dodge, and co-author of “How to Talk Yankee,” with Tim Sample. Bob is the proud father of three daughters and grandfather of nine grandchildren.
QLF Chairman and Founder Bob Bryan is still very active in all the projects he enjoys. These include flying to the Quebec North Shore with his wife Patricia to minister to the people, and conservation work involving Atlantic salmon and waterfowl. He also oversees QLF's Scholarship Program, which has helped over 1200 young people from the Quebec North Shore, Newfoundland, northern New Brunswick, and Maine.
Lawrence B. Morris - President
QLF’s long-time President, Larry Morris, has worked for QLF since the summer of 1975, when he was tapped as the Director of the Living Rivers Program, QLF’s first environmental education camp in Tabusintac, New Brunswick.
After graduate school (1977), he joined QLF full-time, becoming the first Director of the Atlantic Center for the Environment, the then emerging environmental division of QLF.
Eleven years later, Larry was named President of the entire organization as a result of a multiple year, board-driven, long-range planning exercise. In the two decades since, QLF has continued to develop its regional program model (combining community service and conservation in North America) with extensive environmental stewardship exchanges with overseas regions such as the Middle East, Latin America, and Central and Southeast Europe. In the same period, QLF’s endowment has grown to over $8 million. Today over 20% of the annual budget is driven by government contracts tapping QLF’s experience in working across borders and at the community level.
Larry holds a B.A. in History from Princeton University (1969) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Natural Resources Management from Cornell University. After college, he served as an Officer in the U.S. Army including a year in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Larry has participated over the years on a number of organizational boards including: The New Hampshire Audubon Society, the New England Salmon Association, the International Council for Bird Preservation (U.S. Section), The St. John River Society (New Brunswick), the Cornell University School of Agriculture’s Advisory Council, and the National Intern Advisory Committee for the Environmental Careers Organization (ECO). Larry is currently a director of the Princeton University Class of 1969 Community Service Fund and Camp Pasquaney (New Hampshire).
Larry and his wife, Tina, live on a 300-year old farm in Boxford, Massachusetts, which was saved from development by the Trust for Public Land. Under Larry’s and Tina’s tenure, Witch Hollow Farm combines local conservation and agricultural initiatives to demonstrate that the two can work together for common purpose, enhance biodiversity, and achieve effective and healthy community and environmental priorities for the future.
Their two Scottish Highland cows are “Thelma and Louise.”
Elizabeth Alling - Executive Vice President
Beth joined QLF in 2002, coming to the organization with a two decades of experience in journalism. Currently, she serves as Executive Vice President, focusing her energies on a wide range of activities within the organization including leading QLF’s Development, Communications and Publications, overseeing the Middle East Programs and The Sounds Conservancy. Beth has a B.A. from the University of California, at Berkeley. Prior to working at QLF, Beth was a documentary producer and writer for more than twenty years. She has worked at ABC News 20/20 covering stories on the environment, science, medicine and public health, the arts, and investigative reports. She has worked on four major series for Public Television, and has worked as an Independent Producer with Christian Science Monitor Television, NBC News, and Public Broadcasting. Beth is the editor of “A Mighty Fortress,” a biography of her father's career as a Lead Pilot in the Eighth Air Force in World War II.
Beth is also an active member of the New England Council of the Wildlife Conservation Society. She lives in Essex County, Massachusetts, with her husband, Brad, and son, Charley.
Thomas Horn - Senior Advisor and Senior Program Manager
Tom joined QLF in 1975 as an intern working on the Living Rivers Program, and began in a full-time role in the fall of 1977. His hair wasn’t gray at the time. Like Larry Morris, with whom he began, Tom has been at QLF for more than thirty years in a variety of roles mainly focused on directing field programs and working with interns. Tom grew up in Ithaca, NY and graduated with a B.A. in Geology from Hamilton College. Later, he earned a Master’s in Natural Resources Conservation from Cornell University (1977) and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1986. Tom is now Senior Vice President and from his Vermont Field Office he provides administrative oversight for QLF programs in the Atlantic Region. Tom also directs QLF’s transportation efforts in Vermont and has a particular interest in the linkage between personal transportation choices and their impact on air quality and climate change. Tom and his family live in north central Vermont.
Brent Mitchell - Vice President, Stewardship
Brent is Vice President, Stewardship, and has worked with QLF for over 20 years. Much of Brent’s current work involves direct exchange among professional peers working for conservation in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America, with a particular interest in civic engagement in landscape conservation. These programs reach more than 50 countries.
Prior to joining the QLF staff of QLF Brent lived and worked in five countries of the Caribbean and Latin America where he worked on the on-site development of the first two natural national parks in Haiti, the gazetting of terrestrial and marine reserves in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and field research in wildlife ecology in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. He worked as a field biologist for America’s oldest land trust, The Trustees of Reservations, before joining QLF in 1987 to promote land trusts in eastern Canada.
As a member of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas, he is leading an initiative on private protected areas and recently served as editor of an issue of its journal PARKS on the subject. He works with public land management agencies in all three countries of North America—particularly the Conservation Study Institute of the U.S. National Park Service —and serves on the board of The George Wright Society.