Chris Schorn, Southern Maine Project Manager
Christian (Chris) Schorn grew up in Silver Spring, MD, and after a childhood exploring the suburban woods of the DC metropolitan area, came to New England to learn more about them—and never left. After graduating from Connecticut College with a double major in botany and environmental studies, he worked in the field of botanical research and conservation through roles at the New York Botanical Garden, New England Wild Flower Society, and the Harvard University Herbaria. He graduated from the University of Vermont’s Field Naturalist & Ecological Planning Program with an M.S. in Plant Biology, completing a master’s project analyzing forest restoration strategies in the Champlain Valley.
After his time at UVM, he joined the Maine land trust world, working in stewardship positions at Cape Elizabeth Land Trust and Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, and for several years as Director of Land Conservation & Ecology for Midcoast Conservancy. His most recent role was as Forest Ecologist for the Maine Natural Areas Program, and he joined the MCHT team in December 2024.
Chris lives in Brunswick, and in his spare time, you can find him cooking, writing, watching baseball, or most likely, off in the woods looking at plants. If you can’t find him doing any of those things, he may be lost in a swamp, and will return your call as soon as he finds his way back to civilization.
On conservation: “No matter what you care about, land conservation can make our shared landscape a healthier, richer, and more connected place. It is deeply meaningful to me that I am able to take part in building a secure future for Maine’s imperiled biodiversity, our community relationships to land, and everything that we can’t yet fathom about our natural world and our connections to it.”
On the job: As the Southern Maine Project Manager, Chris works on land conservation projects from Kittery to Harpswell, with special focus on the Mousam River and the Mount Agamenticus to the Sea Initiative. Working alongside landowners, communities, and conservation partners, Chris identifies and conserves lands that benefit the interconnected needs of southern Maine’s communities and landscape ecology.