Ronald Rohall, chairman of the Westmoreland Conservation District Board of Directors, was recently appointed by Gov. Corbett to the State Conservation Commission.
Rohall will serve a four-year term on the 14-member commission, whose primary mission is to ensure the wise use of Pennsylvania’s natural resources and to protect and restore the natural environment through the conservation of its soil, water, and related resources.
The commission provides support and oversight to Pennsylvania’s 66 county conservation districts, including the Westmoreland District.
Rohall has been active for many years as a volunteer with the State Conservation Commission. He currently chairs the SCC’s Leadership Development Committee and was awarded the commission’s highest recognition, the Conservation Leadership Award, for outstanding service to conservation in 2007 and again in 2010.
For more than 20 years, he has been a volunteer with the Westmoreland Conservation District, serving on the Board of Directors since 1993. In 1999, he was elected vice chairman of the organization’s board, and in 2011 he was elected chairman.
In addition, Rohall is a past-president of the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts and has served in leadership roles on numerous committees for that organization, including the forest resources committee, the education and youth committee, and the legislative committee.
Rohall currently serves as the chairman of the Ohio Basin Regional Water Resources Committee, and chair of the National Association of Conservation District’s Urban and Community Resource Policy Group.
A professional consulting forester, Rohall lives in Ligonier with his wife, Theresa.
