Steve joined the Conservancy’s Clinch Valley Program in Abingdon, Virginia in 1999, and is responsible for the start-up and day-to-day operations of this new forestry program of The Nature Conservancy. He received a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Wildlife Resources from Virginia Tech in 1983, Master of Forestry and Master of Environmental Management degrees from Duke Universities’ Nicholas School of the Environment in 1994. His forestry experience includes wood procurement, land management, and landowner assistance work with forest industry and private non-profit organizations throughout the Eastern United States, primarily in the South. He is a Certified Forester through the Society of American Foresters. Membership in professional organizations includes the Forest Guild, the Society of American Foresters, and the Forest History Society. He has received critical support since college from his wife of nineteen years, Christine.

Linda is a native of Hopewell, Virginia. She has a degree in Forestry & Wildlife Management from V.P.I. , 1980. She has worked for 9 years in the timber industry with Continental Forest Industries, 6 years in land management and 3 years developing and selling real estate for the company' s real estate subsidiary. She began work for The Nature Conservancy in 1989 as the Director of Protection for the South Carolina program. She returned to Virginia as Director of Land Protection for The Nature Conservancy in Virginia in 1994. Her job is to oversee the acquisition and/or other forms of protection for both rare and representative species and natural communities in Virginia. She is married to Kevin Crowe. Linda and Kevin are managed by their college-aged sons, Kai and Bram. They love hiking, canoeing and playing music, among other things.