Terrence Moore
Mr. Moore served as the first executive director of the State of New Jersey Pinelands Commission between 1979 and 1999 and was responsible for managing the development and implementation of the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve Comprehensive Management Plan.
In 1999, he joined the National Park Service as chief of planning and compliance for the Service’s Northeast Region. In that capacity, he was responsible for the conduct of general management plans for units of the National Park System, studies of areas that may qualify as new units, and the Northeast Region’s congressional and legislative affairs.
Since retiring in 2011, He has been a private consultant specializing in protected areas planning and management. He has provided planning assistance to the Mongol Ecology Center in planning for three protected areas in northern Mongolia, Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia for agency strategic planning, Peru’s SERNANP for park planning, and the Protected Areas Directorate of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainability of Paraguay for park management planning.
Mr. Moore holds a B.A. in Government and a M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma. He is a former National Urban Fellow of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and National League of Cities, and Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, lecturing on transferable development rights. In 2011 he received the Superior Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior.