05/03/09. 8:30am to 2:30pm. Training Session for New Stewardship Volunteers. The first objective of the TU conservation approach is PROTECT–protecting the resources we already enjoy from development and degradation. A key aspect of PROTECT in the world we live in is land conservancy through easements and other vehicles. Protecting rivers without protecting the watershed is probably not an effective approach. Our Chapter has already taken steps to learn about land conservancy through SPNHF, TPL, and others, and has begun to identify key PROTECT candidate tracts within our area. But, we also need to “develop our bench” by building land conservancy skills into our membership. So, I call your attention to the Training Session for New Stewardship Volunteers offered by Upper Valley Land Trust located at 19 Buck Road, Hanover, NH 03755 (map). Stewardship volunteering involves meeting landowners of conserved land, hiking off-trail to find property boundaries with a map and compass, and recording what you see as you become our eyes and ears on permanently protected land. I realize this overlaps by a couple of hours with our Green Up Clean Up in West Hartford, but some folks may be looking for a full day of activities or have the morning free and not the afternoon. If this sounds like something in which you would have an interest, please contact UVLT at (603) 643-6626 or email Monica.Erhart@uvlt.org. If you do attend, please come share your experience and insights at one of our next Chapter meetings on May 7th or June 4th.
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