Columnist Kristin DeBoer: Kestrel Land Trust looks forward as it marks 50 years
From a site visit to Horse Mountain in Hatfield for the LAND grant. MARK GELOTTE Published: 12/31/2020 7:30:42 AM Fifty years ago, in December 1970, a group of Amherst residents who were members of the first Town Conservation Commission came together to form The Kestrel Trust. Janet and Toby Dakin, two engaged civic leaders — who also helped establish the Dakin Humane Society and Hampshire College—were Kestrel’s driving force for the first decade. Inspired by the first Earth Day that la...
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