Tom Ogren was a member of the FoHVOS board of trustees for thirteen years beginning in 2007 and served as vice president from 2008 to 2018. As chairman of the Land Preservation Committee, Tom was responsible for land acquisition and securing grants from the State Green Acres Program and Mercer County. He helped preserve over 800 acres often in partnership with the D&R Greenway Land Trust.

Tom was responsible for creating trails at Hopewell Township’s Woolsey Park and creating the Jacobs Creek Trail by securing trail easements for FoHVOS. He served as an advisor to eight Eagle Scout candidates for trail improvement projects such as boardwalks, bridges, and kiosks at various Hopewell Valley sites.

As part of a volunteer crew, Tom helped build trails on seven FoHVOS preserves.  He also served on a trail building crew for the New Jersey Trails Association led by Alan Hershey. Tom is currently the lead volunteer for a FoHVOS trail maintenance crew

Tom served as editor for three editions of the FoHVOS  Guide to Walking Trails in the Hopewell Valley and personally distributed nearly 7,000 copies of the first two editions to public libraries, municipal buildings and other public places. He also authored the FoHVOS booklet The Kusers at Baldpate Mountain and the Creation of the Ted Stiles Preserve. Tom was instrumental in securing new office space for FoHVOS staff in the Strawberry Hill Mansion at Baldpate Mountain.

Following his retirement, Tom was elected to the Pennington Borough Council in 2007 and was re-elected in 2010. As a Councilmember, he proposed and secured funding for the construction of the Pennington Connector trail linking Pennington to the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail. He also produced a Pennington Trail Guide brochure.

Tom served on the Pennington Borough Planning Board and chaired the Borough’s Open Space Committee and Shade Tree Commission. He served as Pennington’s representative to the Hopewell Valley Open Space Advisory Board and the Mercer County Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force. As a member of the Task Force, he proposed a bikeway along Route 546 which is to  be created by Mercer County in the next year or so.

Tom received an M.A. in Public Administration from Northern Illinois University.  He currently resides in Lambertville with his wife Karen.