The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, the brainchild of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, is a private, non-profit, Congressionally created, entity that owns and manages many of the most environmentally sensitive properties in Puerto Rico.
The Trust is led by three trustees, appointed jointly by the Secretary of the Interior and the Governor of Puerto Rico. The current trustees were appointed by Secretary Gail Norton and Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá in 2005. Former Puerto Rico First Lady Kate Donnelly de Romero was appointed to a second term, following her initial appointment in 1999. Loren Ferré Rangel and Mack Mattingly joined Mrs. Romero as first termers.
The Trust is run by an Executive Director, currently attorney Fernando Lloveras, who succeeded architect Francisco Javier Blanco.
The Trust's Board of Advisors includes attorney Jorge San Miguel, who serves as its chair, Luis Alvarez, professor Carmen Milagros Concepción, UPR Law professor Michel Godreau, financier Francisco X. González Calderón, Panama City Mayor Juan Carlos Navarro, climate policy expert and professor at George Mason University Andrew Light, former Puerto Rico Attorney General Jorge Pérez Díaz, economist Miguel Soto-Class, CPA Juan Acosta Reboyras, Woodie Woodward, Col. Frank Norton (Ret.), Alan Covich and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of the Interior, Douglas Domenech.
Among the properties managed by the Trust are the Cabezas de San Juan area in Fajardo, and the Hacienda Vives coffee plantation in Ponce.
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