Don joins the KPB staff after retiring from the PA Department of Environmental Protection as the Coastal Resources Program Manager in DEP’s Central Office, primarily working in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Erie. He spent a total of 38 years with local government and the Commonwealth, 23 of which were spent in the Coastal Zone Program. Concurrently, for 32 years, he also served as a Deputy Waterways Conservation Officer for the PA Fish and Boat Commission in the Central Erie County District.

In 2003, Don and several environmental and community leaders led an effort to expand the ‘Presque Isle cleanup’ to the New York and Ohio borders, thus establishing the first Erie County (PA) International Coastal Cleanup event. That ICC event still persists to this day. Since 2000, he’s been an appointed member of the Presque Isle State Park Complex Advisory Committee, currently serving as Vice Chair. He’s a Board member of the Lake Erie Region Conservancy. Don graduated from Gannon University in 1982 with a B.S. in Biology. He has three sons, residing in Erie, Pittsburgh and in the Kansas City area. Lake Erie/Presque Isle, the Delaware River, and the Moshannon State Forest (Elk, Cameron, Clearfield Counties) are Don’s favorite places in PA.