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 launched the modern environmental movement and wary of new waves of sprawling development, they wanted...
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