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Meet the Staff and Board |
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Ryan Talbott
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Rachel Martin
Board Member
Rachel has been the Allegheny Defense Project Outreach Program Director since October of 1999. She first joined the organization at a protest in Warren, PA, in June of 1997. Finding her niche, Rachel then served as ADP's Buffalo Area Coordinator from 1997 until 1999 when she moved to Michigan to work with the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund as their Coordinator. Within 8 months, however, the lure of the Allegheny would bring her back to Pennsylvania where she has remained ever since.
Rachel earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies, with a minor in Biological Sciences, from the University at Buffalo, and is currently pursuing her M.S. in Environmental Biology at Clarion University.
With the Allegheny Defense Project Rachel wears many hats --coordinating events, writing media releases, developing outreach program materials, and more. She conducts public speakings and slideshows, edits the ADP's renowned Hellbender Journal, coordinates the ADP's network of regional coordinators, and works on public policy and legislative issues.
Rachel has also served as the ADP's representative to the Zero-Cut Coordinating Committee on the Heartwood board of directors. She currently acts as the Pennsylvania delegate to the National Forest Protection Alliance and serves on the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Wildlands Recovery Project. An avid hiker, backpacker, paddler, and cross-country skier, the Allegheny has long been one of her favorite hiking areas.
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Jim Kleissler
Board Member
Jim has been the Allegheny Defense Project's Forest Watch Director since June of 1999. Jim's involvement with the ADP goes back to the ADP's founding in early 1994. In 1994 Jim was a co-coordinator of Pennsylvania for the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC). Then an undergraduate student at Drexel University, Jim quickly became involved full-time with the ADP and has been a leader in forest watch work ever since. At the end of 1995 Jim permanently settled in the Allegheny National Forest region.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Pennsylvania Wildlands Recovery Project and is the forestry chair for the Pennsylvania Environmental Network (PEN). Jim has also served on the Boards of Heartwood and PEN. With the Allegheny Defense Project Jim is the chief person responsible for forest monitoring work, gaining access to government documents, appealing and coordinating strategic litigation against timber sales, and initiating work to protect and conserve endangered species. Jim also gives public presentations and slideshows, develops education materials, and prepares media releases.
Jim was a co-recipient of Heartwood's Hellbender of the Year award in 1997 for his work against the Mortality II Timber Sale.
Jim likes to hike, bike, camp, cross-country ski, cave, snowshoe, canoe, and backpack in the Allegheny and other outdoors locations.
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