Sam Butcher

D.W. Field Park Initiative Project Facilitator - ☎️ 📧

Sam Butcher has enjoyed hiking on Wildlands Trust properties for many years, but only recently has he become more involved with the organization. For roughly 15 years, Sam was a member and President of the Board of Directors of the Historic O’Neil Farm, a nonprofit organization in Duxbury dedicated to the preservation of one of the oldest continuously operating dairy farms in Massachusetts. Wildlands Trust was instrumental in preserving this farm, and when Sam stepped off the board, he was lucky enough to step into an opportunity with Wildlands Trust. Sam’s primary efforts have focused on facilitating and securing funding for renovations associated with D.W. Field Park in Brockton, one of the largest city-owned parks in the country! The D.W. Field Park Initiative, a collaboration led by Wildlands, seeks to renovate and improve this roughly 700-acre public park.  Sam also recently became an Adopt-a-Preserve volunteer trail monitor to ensure that others can enjoy the many Wildlands preserves that he has.  

Sam studied geology at Skidmore College and Brown University and for several decades worked in the private sector to help clients clean up contaminated properties. Returning blighted sites to productive, safe use was extremely satisfying, but Sam prefers working on the uncontaminated side of environmental consulting now.