Tom Fuhrman is a founding member and current President of the Lake Erie Region Conservancy (LERC), a non-profit land trust that since 2005 has led efforts to protect over 1,200 acres of open space in Erie County. In 2012 LERC was a recipient of the Pennsylvania Enviromental Council and Dominion Resources Annual Western PA Enviromental Awards. Mr Fuhrman also represented Pennsylvania in 2012 at a White House Summit on the Greak Lakes as an advocate for the protection and restoration of the Great Lakes.