Evan H. Smith

The Conservation Fund engages in the protection of America's landscapes & waterways. It offers identifying, negotiating and financing land purchases. The company was founded by Patrick Noonan and Richard Erdmann in 1985 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

ImageTree Corp. is a forestry-technology-solutions company with a patented technology platform which combines remote sensing, field inputs, automated software and advanced mathematics to provide a comprehensive view of a forest. Known as 'the precision forestry company,' ImageTree uses its precise baseline assessments of forest assets - including biodiversity and carbon-stock assessments - to create valuable forest-management information then reformats the data to create management tools that enable recommendations for more profitable forest management. ImageTree recently signed agreements with GeoEye, Inc., and MJ Harden Associates, Inc. (a GeoEye company) that enable the three companies to cooperatively create, market, sell, and deliver commercially viable forestry management inventory solutions to the forestry industry. The company also recently signed a strategic technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel to support the U.S. intelligence community.