Welcome, New Board Members Got to Know the Late Director of the “Certainly the Rainforest Is Important, but So Is the Temperate Forest,” Asserts Schmidt
Thomas M. Schmidt While with the WPC, Schmidt directed several key proj- ects, including the Pittsburgh Park and Playground Fund, VP & General Counsel, retired which constructed parklets, playgrounds and greenways Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to bring natural amenities to disadvantaged neighborhoods; the Ligonier Easement Project, one of the largest conser- I have been a director of the vation and scenic easement programs in Pennsylvania, Allegheny Land Trust since it was protecting over 4,000 acres; and the Fallingwater Museum, created at the recommendation for which he raised funds, worked with curators and of Allegheny County 2001. contractors, and added features that helped increase “Like many people in our region, I annual visitation. A publication of Allegheny Land Trust Summer 2002 have been interested in the outdoors In addition, Schmidt is a founder of the Land Trust and science since I was young. My Alliance and trustee of the National Aviary. mother was a bird watcher, and I Welcome, New Board Members got to know the late director of the “Certainly the rainforest is important, but so is the temperate forest,” asserts Schmidt. “The most recent Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Dr. M. Graham Robert T. MacLachlan, MD helped secure preservation of Netting, who became a sort of mentor. As a teenager, Bioblitz inventories of our largest urban parks found A physician by training, MacLachlan has no formal Wingfield Pines, the Trust’s newest I participated in one of the museum’s paleontology unknown and unexpected species—further proof that we environmental experience, but since a young age, he’s acquisition. expeditions out West.
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