Brent Charette is the Director for Land Stewardship at the Arc of Appalachia. He received his training in forest resource management at Hocking Technical College. His first career was with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources where he worked as a state-wide naturalist for the Division of Parks and Recreation, eventually serving as Park Manager at Malabar Farm State Park. In his personal time, he relishes caring for one of the Sanctuary’s tracts of land known as Ridgeview Farm, where he cares for the trails, removes invasive plants, and plants a ton of trees! Brent’s greatest passions include nature interpretation, permaculture & forest gardening, native tree propagation, and subsistence gardening. He loves anything to do with trees, including growing his own edible mushrooms, carpentry, and studying mycorrhizal associations.

Elijah Crabtree is the Regional Land Manager for the Arc of Appalachia, stationed at Tremper Mound Preserve in Scioto County and working at the Arc’s many preserves in the larger region. Elijah was born and raised in Ross County – the epicenter of Hopewell architecture – where he developed a passion for the 2000-year old Culture, all kinds of history, natural sciences and conservation work. He has a wide breadth of knowledge and interpretive naturalist skills, but a special interest in connecting people to the natural world through botany, geology, historically significant sites such as the landscapes of Tremper Mound and the Great Portsmouth Earthworks.