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William D. Turner is an attorney with Pyles & Turner, LLP, who has served on the WVRC Board since 1998 and currently serves as Board President. Bill moved to the Mountain State in 1985, and currently lives in Lewisburg, WV, with his wife, Susan Rosshirt. An avid angler, Bill has enjoyed spending time on many of the Mountain State’s exceptional rivers, including the New, Greenbrier, Gauley, Elk, Kanawha, Buckhannon, and Potomac Rivers, and countless smaller creeks and streams. A native of North Carolina, Bill received a B.A., M.B.A., and law degrees from the University of North Carolina. He served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Elizabeth V. Hallanan, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia in 1985-86, before starting to practice law in 1986. Bill is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the 3rd and 4th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Southern and Northern U.S. District Courts in West Virginia, and the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
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Krissy Kasserman (Chair) grew up in New Martinsville, WV and spent much of her childhood paddling, swimming, and fishing in the Ohio River. She holds a BA in Secondary Education with certifications in Social Sciences and Environment and Ecology, and she is currently pursuing a MPS in Community and Economic Development. Krissy is the Youghiogheny Riverkeeper with the Mountain Watershed Association and lives in the Laurel Highlands region of Pennsylvania with her husband and daughter. She likes clean streams, deep snow, good food, big dogs and river trips.
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Chrissy Zeltner (Vice Chair) is an avid whitewater kayaker, can frequently be found on one of WV's rivers. Her favorites are the Middle Fork of the Tygart, the Big Sandy, and the Cheat. She is originally from Pennsylvania but just moved from Fairmont to Bruceton Mills, WV. Being self employed as a massage therapist, she is able to make time in her schedule for lots of kayaking, mt biking, skiing and spending time with her dogs, Nova and Max.
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Turner Sharp (Treasurer) grew up on a dairy farm in Central Maryland but has been a West Virginia resident since 1977. He then attended Potomac State College and West Virginia University graduating with a BS and MS in Forestry. Turner has worked 30 years in some aspect of the wood products industry. Although retired, he has contracted with the WV Division of Forestry for the past two years to update their Big Tree Register. Turner is a member of the West Virginia Highland Conservancy and active in West Virginia Wildwater Association, Friends of the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Native Tree Society, and of course the West Virginia Rivers Coalition. Turner and his wife Susan share eight children/step children and nine grandchildren/step grandchildren. |
Ed Gertler (Secretary) has been an Engineer with Maryland Department of the Environment, Water Management Administration since 1970. He has been an accomplished whitewater canoeist for nearly 50 years. Ed is the author of three paddling guidebooks and contributor to others. He is also an avid hiker, biker, contradancer, and weed warrior. Ed has a soft touch for environmental advocacy groups.
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Don Garvin is currently Legislative Coordinator and lead lobbyist for the West Virginia Environmental Council, a position he has held for the last nine years. Prior to taking this position he served three years as a member of the WVEC lobby team, and has also served two terms as president of that organization.
Mr. Garvin is a long-time active member of Trout Unlimited. He served as secretary and newsletter editor of the Mountaineer Chapter of TU from 1983 until 1998, and as chapter president from 1998 to 2003. In 1999 he was retained by Trout Unlimited to edit and write major portions of the national organization’s “Advocacy Manual,” which continues to be used as TU’s primary guidebook on interacting with federal and state regulatory agencies.
In addition, Mr. Garvin is a long-time board member of both the West Virginia Rivers Coalition and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy.
From 1982 to 1998 Mr. Garvin was vice president and field manager of Braxton Oil and Gas Corp., a family-owned independent natural gas production company with offices in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Previously he attended Northwestern University where he majored in journalism and worked in that field prior to 1982. |
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