Dudmaston LLC was founded by Rud Browne in 2014 with the belief that homes for people and wildlife are equally important. We love our natural environment; it feeds our soul and drives one of our long-term objectives to enhance and protect 1,000 acres of open space in perpetuity. At the same time, owning a house has become an unrealistic dream for most young families all across America and we feel equally obligated to also do our part to help solve this problem.

We finance our environmental preservation projects by allocating a small portion of each parcel for the development of clustered, energy-efficient single-family homesites in the least sensitive areas of the properties. Any impacts are mitigated by enhancing more valuable habitats at ratios greater than those required, and the remaining 75% to 95% of the property is permanently dedicated to farmland, forestry, and wildlife habitat.

Rud Browne is a proven environmental entrepreneur. He started with recycling scrap metal at 10 years old. At 30 Rud started The Ryzex Group, the world’s first mobile technology reuse and recycling company building it to $75 million in annual revenues and employing 360 people in five countries. Rud promoted the recycling ethic to the point that the Ryzex’ Bellingham facility (with 160 personnel) was able to eliminate ALL waste. With the initial funding provided by Rud and the lessons learned this became the foundation of the popular local program called Towards Zero Waste, which has resulted in over 300 organizations reducing their waste by at least 50%.

Under Rud’s leadership, Ryzex received numerous awards, including “Best Places to Work,” the “Green Business of the Year” and was recognized nationally by Inc. Magazine as one of top two “Green businesses in the USA“. In 2013 Rud was elected to the Whatcom County Council where he served two terms, the last two as Chair. In 2004 Rud was recognized as the Whatcom County Businessperson of the Year and in 2007 as a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

A partial list of Rud’s other areas of service is he has severed as VP Ethics for the Entrepreneurs Organization, as a board member for the Northwest Economic Council, the US Bank of WA Advisory Board, the WWU College of Business and Economics Advisory Board, the Whatcom County Ethics Commission, the Whatcom Community Foundation, and the Young Presidents Organization, Pacific Northwest chapter (as Chair). he has also served as Aircrew for the US Coast Guard Auxiliary flying pollution surveillance missions.