2025 Fall Conference

Kevin Gardner is a lifelong resident of Hopkinton, NH. Like a lot of independent rural Yankees, he’s been a jack of many trades, a builder, logger, writer, teacher, radio voice, even an actor and director.

For more than forty years he has been a stone wall builder in a family business widely known for traditional New England stonework, particularly for historic restoration of antique structures. In 2001 Kevin published The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls. His second book, Stone Building: How To Make New England Style Walls and Other Structures the Old Way, was published in May of 2017. He has also published poetry, songs, and essays, including “Land of Stone”, an examination of several historic sites in the Monadnock Region, in the 2006 anthology Where The Mountain Stands Alone.  

Tina has an extensive background in the environmental field that specializes in wetlands; plant identification; environmental regulation; natural communities; water resources; and educational and public outreach. Her expertise includes: Vermont state and federal wetland regulations, wetland delineation, wetland functional assessments and biomonitoring, plant surveys and inventory, restoration monitoring, and leading field crews.  She has been a District Wetland Ecologist in the DEC Wetlands Program for the last 10 years. She is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and protecting wetlands in Chittenden County.

Addison has been practicing forestry for 13 years in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. She joined Greenleaf in the fall of 2010 after graduating from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry. In addition to forestry and GIS consulting, Addison specializes in invasive plant control and sugarbush management/assisting landowners with organic maple certifications.  In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, hunting, and spending time with her family in east-central Vermont.

• VT Licensed Professional Forester # 148.0121794
• NH Licensed Professional Forester #456
• NRCS Technical Service Provider VT-20-23179
• New York Cooperating Consulting Forester
• Vermont Woodlands Association Consulting Forester

Kevin is a Licensed Land Surveyor in the State of New Hampshire and a Professional Land Surveyor in the State of Maine. Kevin joined the Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service in April 2022 as the White Mountain National Forest Land Surveyor. He is also a member of the New Hampshire Land Surveyors Association.

Kevin earned his Associate of Applied Science degree in Civil Technology with an emphasis in Surveying and Mapping from the Thompson School of Applied Science at the University of New Hampshire in 2005. Kevin was employed with HEB Engineers in North Conway, NH from May 2005 to April 2022. He has considerable experience with boundary and engineering surveys, deed research and plan compilation. Kevin’s project experience includes infrastructure, property, and conservation surveying.