Land Report 100er No. 87 Takes the Chair at The Nature Conservancy

Roger Milliken Jr., president and CEO of Maine’s Baskahegan Co., was named chairman of the board of The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s largest conservation organizations. The announcement was made earlier this month. Milliken, whose family’s company owns more than 100,000 acres of Maine timberland through Baskahegan and ranks No. 87 on the 2008 Land Report 100, has been a member of The Nature Conservancy board since 2000 and a member of the Maine chapter’s board of trustees for more than 10 years. He succeeds John Morgridge, former CEO of Cisco Systems. Read more