Rally is always a busy time for me and the land conservation community, but this year it was even more so. Because it came just days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report.
I was sent kicking and screaming this year to the National Audubon Society’s Educators Week on Hog Island in Maine. And despite myself, it was the best thing that could have happened to me.
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Leia Lowery, right, at the National Audubon Society's Educators Week on Hog Island in Maine. / Photo courtesy Leia Lowery
Newtown Forest Association of Newtown, Connecticut received the Land Trust Alliance's National Land Trust Excellence Award at Rally 2018: The National Land Conservation Conference in Pittsburgh.
Shirley Heinze Land Trust of Valparaiso, Indiana received the Land Trust Alliance's National Land Trust Excellence Award at Rally 2018: The National Land Conservation Conference in Pittsburgh.
Michael Whitfield, a land conservation champion, received the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award & Fellowship during our Rally 2018: The National Land Conservation Conference in Pittsburgh.
The Land Trust Alliance will today bestow on land conservation champion Michael Whitfield the distinguished Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award.
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Land conservation champion Michael Whitfield will receive the distinguished Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award during Rally 2018. / Photo by DJ Glisson II
