Frederick J. Weyerhaeuser: Rick joined The Lyme Timber Company in 2000 and is responsible for communications with the Company’s investors. He is also involved in the development of conservation-related investment and disposition opportunities. Rick is a former State Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and for ten years was Director of the World Wildlife Fund's Africa Program. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Seventh American Forest Congress, the Student Conservation Association, the Minnesota Chapter of TNC, and the Forest History Society. He is currently on the Board of the New England Forestry Foundation and also serves on the Leadership Council for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Rick earned a B.S. from Yale University in 1977 and a Masters of Forestry from Yale in 1983.