Keystone Conservation Trust Staff

 

Our personnel bring over sixty years of experience in conservation (habitat conservation, open space protection and water resource planning), strategic planning (corporate and public), and real estate transactions. With a track record in innovative capital formation and experience in navigating the complexities of landscape scale conservation and partnering, KCT commands the breadth and depth of skills and experience to help make things happen.

 

John Rogers

John Rogers
Principal


Prior to establishing KCT, Mr. Rogers was a Senior Vice President of the international environmental engineering firm of CH2MHill, overseeing all science and technology. Previously, he was a founding partner of Rogers, Golden, Halpern. Mr. Rogers has thirty years' experience in strategic planning, water quality trading, watershed planning, mitigation banking, public/private partnerships, capital planning, asset management, facility siting and decision sciences. Mr. Rogers has directed over 130 projects from the Everglades to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Pacific Northwest to the Chesapeake. He has served as co-Chair of the Natural Resources subcommittee of Governor Ridge's Environment Commission for the 21st Century, International Coordinator for Multidisciplinary Partnerships forum on Sustainable Development, and judge of the Three Rivers Environmental Awards. He is an acclaimed author on environmental issues and tools.

 

Jack Butler

Jack Butler
Vice President


Mr. Butler brings over twenty years of real estate experience to KCT, where he oversees the Legacy Property Fund.  Prior to joining KCT, he was Vice President of Land Acquisition for Toll Brothers Homebuilders.  While at Toll, he employed smart growth principles, such as clustered design with open space preservation.  Crafting agreements that are sensitive to the property while respecting the wishes of the Property Owner are his specialty.  He previously managed real estate acquisitions, divestitures and brown field sites for GE, where he achieved Six Sigma Quality greenbelt certification.  The redevelopment of an abandoned electrical testing facility in southeast Philadelphia for the USPS was one of the first brown field sites cleaned up by him under PA's Act 2 Cleanup program.  His roots are in Forest Biology where he earned his BS at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University.  He has a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer.

 


Recent Project


Pennypack

The Pennypack Greenway is a wooded oasis in a highly built-out setting at the margins of Philadelphia. Encompassing three protected areas within both Philadelphia and Montgomery counties (the Pennypack Park, Lorimer Park, and the Pennypack Preserve), the Pennypack watershed houses over 2600 acres of publicly accessible protected lands. Conservation challenges ...
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