COURTESY OF LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST
Michele Grzenda, Lincoln’s new conservation director, was recently awarded the Outstanding Public Service Award by the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions.
As the former conservation administrator in Weston, Grzenda worked to care for more than 2,000 acres of conservation land and 90 miles of trails. She managed land protection projects, field restorations, sustainable forestry operations and trail improvements. In the past two years alone, she has written a Climate Change Adaption Plan for open space, helped to complete a new handicapped-accessible trail network, led a successful land protection effort for Wellington Farm and conducted a study on the ecological needs of Weston’s more than 30 conservation fields.