Marcy Lyman

“Investing in Forests for Water: Scoping a New Hampshire Natural Infrastructure Investment Program”

Martha (Marcy) West Lyman is a Switzer Fellow and consultant in the field of community-based natural resource management and served as Vice-Chair of the NH Water Sustainability Commission.  Her portfolio over more than 25 years in the field includes work as founding partner and coordinator of the Community Forest Collaborative, Senior Fellow with the Quebec-Labrador Foundation/Atlantic Center for the Environment, managed grant-making programs for the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and Director of Policy for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests where she developed policies and programs related to forestland conservation, river conservation and management, acid rain, public land management and wilderness designation.  She received a B.A. from Harvard/Radcliffe College, and an M.P.A. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.  She is currently a Bullard Fellow at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA researching the feasibility of a natural infrastructure investment program in New Hampshire to compensate forestland owners for conserving and managing forestland for water quality, supplies and stormwater management.  She and her husband, Daniel, have three grown children and live in Manchester.