About Us

Peggy Enoch

Peggy Enoch (Secretary) has lived in Tinicum since 1979. Peggy graduated from Chestnut Hill College and earned a Masters in Education from Lehigh University. She spent 30 years teaching at various levels, in both private and public schools. She and her husband, Tex, are happy to spend time with their three adult children and their spouses, and their four grandsons. She has volunteered for a number of church and community groups and especially looks forward to the resumption of singing with the Palisades Community Chorus.

Jeff Keller

Jeff Keller (Trustee) and his wife Lorraine have lived in Tinicum for the past 20 years.  Jeff works as a restoration ecologist and also serves as environmental consultant to several New Jersey municipalities.  He enjoys teaching and has guest lectured at Penn State, Temple and Thomas Jefferson University, and co-taught a one-week summer course in field natural history at Cornell for almost 30 years.  He also recently published a book on habitat analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and has an upcoming book chapter on landscape ecology and wildlife management.

 Jeff will be serving on the Board of Trustees for his 5th three-year term and also serves on the TC Stewardship Committee.

Wendy Ullman

Wendy Ullman (Trustee) taught for 30 years at Bucks County Community College before her election to the State General Assembly as the region’s State Representative from 2018-2020. She grew up spending lots of time at her family cabin in the Adirondacks in the summer, and she thinks her fond memories of those times have a lot to do with why she feels so at home here.

She looks forward to serving the community again through her work as a Conservancy trustee and spending her free time outdoors searching for chanterelles and exploring the woods near her new home.

Debra Wolf Goldstein

Debra Wolf Goldstein (Trustee) is founder of Conservation Matters, LLC, a law firm focusing on land conservation and policy.  She also is co-founder and executive director of the Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival (www.philaenvirofilmfest.org), which “brings the planet to Philadelphia through the power of environmental film.” Previously she served as executive director of Delaware Canal 21; as general counsel to the Heritage and Tinicum Conservancy; and as regional advisor for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. Prior to that, she was an attorney with the law firm of Wolf Block in their litigation, real estate, and environmental departments.  Debra chaired the Land Use Committee of the Philadelphia Park & Recreation Commission and served for over a decade as vice president of the Fairmount Park Commission. She has written numerous scholarly and popular publications on land conservation and has taught workshops on recreational liability, conservation easements, appraisals, and conflicts of interest.  She holds a J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and graduated with a B.A. from Brown University. Debra and her husband, Jay, greatly enjoy spending time at their weekend home along the Delaware River near Smithtown Creek.

John Mark Courtney

John Mark Courtney (Trustee) is an avid native plantsman, professional grower, gardener and lover of all things wild. He is the founder and owner of Kind Earth Growers LLC. After completing his B.S. in Environmental Design from Delaware Valley University in 1998, John Mark pursued his passion for growing native plants and environmental stewardship first at Bowmans Hill Wildflower Preserve and then at Aquascapes Unlimited Inc., where he was the head grower and operations manager for 20 years. After moving to Nockamixon Township in 2007, John Mark joined and eventually chaired the Nockamixon Open Space Committee and was directly involved in the preservation of many key properties in the township. He was also a participating artist in the annual Artists of the Gallows Run, where proceeds were raised for land preservation in the Gallows Run watershed. John Mark’s free time is spent with his wife Erin, and their Australian Cattle Dog Jackson, home in 3 acres of mature oak, hickory, maple forest in the Beaver Creek watershed where they are actively rewilding and stewarding the native landscape for maximum ecological benefit.

Dennis Lonergan

Dennis Lonergan (Trustee) has been a political, policy and nonprofit writer and creative for more than 30 years, working in Congress, the Senate Judiciary Committee, election campaigns and leading non-profits through Eidolon Communications, the 12-person agency founded with his husband and partner, John Graves. The firm was based in New York City until COVID-19, which led Dennis and John to move full-time to their house on Municipal Road in Erwinna. (They learned during their closing that a strip of their property was given as an easement to Tinicum Conservancy, which was an unexpected but welcome surprise!) The move has only deepened their love and appreciation for Tinicum, Bucks County and the Delaware Valley as an ideal place to live, work and contribute to a very rare quality of life. He was born in Baltimore, grew up in the Boston suburbs, attended Syracuse University and began his professional life in Washington, DC before relocating to New York. He loves hiking, music, theater, reading, writing, film, cooking, baking, traveling, politics, dogs and making his very own cold-brew ice coffee.

Eric Anderson
Executive Director

While not quite born in a cave, Eric’s childhood experiences living on the grounds of a nature center in northwest Pennsylvania where his father worked made his lifelong commitment to environmental stewardship and sustainability almost inevitable. He brings to the executive directorship of Tinicum Conservancy manifold applicable experiences and skill developed through eight years of transformational independent school leadership, along with a love of science and teaching that was cultivated during eight years of teaching science as process of discovery and innovation, and five years of scientific research. Outside his professional pursuits, Eric has served as a board member for organizations advancing ecological habitat restoration, urban agriculture, open space preservation, and sustainability in schools, and also volunteered time in service to immigrant communities, housing for neglected rural communities, and educational opportunities for underserved urban communities. An enthusiastic community-builder and insatiable learner, Eric connects and collaborates wherever he goes, and here in Tinicum is striving both to uphold and advance the conservancy’s incredibly successful and widely reputed legacy of land protection, and to synthesize diverse approaches to conservation in support of a healthy, resilient, and sustaining community.  If you’re interested in exploring collaborative possibilities in any of these realms, or have ideas or suggestions, please reach out! eanderson@tinicumconservancy.org

Scott Berman — Resource Protection Assistant

Scott has been in the land trust field for eight years and worked with Wissahickon Trails in Montgomery County before joining Tinicum Conservancy in 2020.

He completed a B.A. in History from American University in Washington D.C. in 2012 and was drawn toward open space conservation work because of his love for nature and passion for addressing environmental challenges like climate change.

Scott is a lifelong resident of the Wissahickon Valley outside of Philadelphia. He enjoys hiking, exploring parks & trails in the southeast Pennsylvania region, as well as spending summers at the New Jersey shore, visiting the beach & swimming in the ocean.

sberman@tinicumconservancy.org

Maria Fell
Office Manager

Maria holds a BSc. in business from Delaware Valley College. Following more than 20 years in the computer industry, her love of nature and the outdoors led to a change of career. As administrative director and a teacher-naturalist with Bucks County Audubon Society she gained experience in the conservation and non-profit worlds that she brings to her position at the Tinicum Conservancy. Maria joined the Conservancy staff in 2011 and has lived in Tinicum since 1998. She enjoys exploring National Parks as well as backpacking, hiking, and kayaking closer to home.

MFell@tinicumconservancy.org

Kelly Germann
Resource Protection Manager

Kelly Germann is a Quakertown native and brings 16 years of non-profit land and water conservation experience to her work at Tinicum Conservancy. She holds a degree in conservation biology and has worked for Berks County Conservancy, Heritage Conservancy, Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy, Bedminster Regional Land Conservancy and multiple townships as a resource protection specialist. She joined Tinicum Conservancy in 2009 as a part-time staff member. In 2014 she fulfilled a life-long dream to hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. When not working or backpacking, Kelly can be found in her garden or contra-dancing with her partner, Jon, and their girls, Sosie and Karis.

KGermann@tinicumconservancy.org