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I am a principal at a consulting firm, Heritage Strategies, LLC, and live in Chestertown, MD, where I am also associated with Maryland's Stories of the Chesapeake Heritage Area on the Eastern Shore. Over 30 years I have led regional plans for countryside protection and improving the sense of place and visitor experience in many planes--great use of my PSU master's of regional planning! I led the 1993 Delaware & Lehigh Canal National Heritage Corridor management plan, and helped create PA's 2001 plan to guide the development of greenways across the state. In 1989 and again in 1996, I coauthored a book, Saving America's Countryside. From 1987 to 1989 I served as special assistant to Secretary Arthur A. Davis when he led the PA Dept of Environmental Resources, an agency that at the time included parks, forests, and environmental bureaus. We established the rail-trail beside Pine Creek and I represented the Secretary on the Appalachian Trail Commission. My long love for Pennsylvania began at Penn State, where I also trained for U. S. Whitewater Team (1975 World Championships); today I row on the VERY flat Chester River. My daughters Annie and Nancy Draper (grandchildren of PSU's Dr. Al Draper, now deceased) are recent graduates of Gettysburg and Smith colleges.