Mr. Gilchrist served as Principal and President of URDC since 1968. He is a specialist in park, trail and recreation master planning, land use planning, site analysis, design and site engineering. His leadership, as a Principal with over 43 years of experience, has directed the research, planning and design of many recreational, development, residential, educational, industrial and commercial projects to large new towns, major resorts, State parks, parkways and environmental centers. Mr. Gilchrist is recognized as an expert in the fields of recreation, land planning, site and civil engineering, urban and rural area planning, market economics and community development in Pennsylvania and Maryland. This includes expert testimony in the previously described fields in numerous Pennsylvania county courts, Commonwealth Courts and Pennsylvania Administrative Law Judges and to over 300 municipal zoning boards and elected official governing boards and planning commissions during the past 55 years.Mr. Gilchrist has been a Registered Landscape Architect for many decades within Pennsylvania and other states.