Chris Bunch
Chris Bunch is an experienced land protection professional with long-time service to the conservation field in professional and volunteer capacities. He has served as Executive Director of the Medina Summit Land Conservancy in Medina, OH. During his tenure, he lead the organization through a merger process where it became part of the much larger Western Reserve Land Conservancy and where he served as Field Director covering Medina and Summit counties. He has served as an appointee to numerous local and state boards and commissions, including the Lake County, Michigan Brownfields Authority, the Oil and Gas Rules committee for the State of Ohio and numerous local planning, regulatory, and advisory committees.
His earlier background includes serving as the Executive Director of the Michigan Outdoors Habitat Brokerage, a non-profit conservation real estate company, and he spent time as a statewide leader with the Michigan United Conservation Clubs. In 2007 he and his wife Maureen returned to family property in northern Michigan, renovating and transforming a cottage into a year-round home, protecting the 160 property with a conservation easement granted to Land Conservancy of West Michigan. During that time he worked for a local lumber company owned by the same family for over 85 years, where his grandfather had worked 75 years previously. He also operated a consulting business in the conservation field, undertaking projects such as contract land protection work for the Land Conservancy of West Michigan, and land acquisition planning for the Erie Metro Parks in Erie County, OH. He joined the SRLC staff in April of 2011, moving to Rochester Hills with his wife Maureen.