The Maryland Environmental Trust (MET) is accepting applications for its annual awards, celebrating successes in land conservation in Maryland. The awards are funded by MET in partnership with the Maryland State Highway Administration. Award winners will be announced at the Maryland Land Conservation Conference on May 15, 2012.
The Aileen Hughes Award honors an individual demonstrating outstanding leadership, partnership and innovation within a Maryland Land Trust. The award is given annually to celebrate the successful completion of a land conservation project within the past two years, and may include activities such as land transactions, outreach and community education, land management and legislative achievement.
The award is given in memory of the life of Aileen Hughes, a respected advocate for Maryland conservation. Hughes, a past president of the American Chestnut Land Trust, supported women’s and civil rights and worked to protect Maryland’s natural and cultural resources.
MET presents the Jan Hollmann Award annually to acknowledge impressive accomplishments by a qualified Maryland Land Trust striving to conserve land and steward existing land conservation easements.
Preference is given to applications from land trusts that are: newly organized; in geographic areas with high potential for many easement donations; implementing ‘Land Trust Standards and Practices;’ and/or seeking assistance towards accreditation with the Land Trust Accreditation Commission.
Jan Hollmann cofounded the Severn River Land Trust and the Arundel Conservation Trust, and was a member of the Severn River Commission. Hollmann was named Izaac Walton League’s Conservationist of the Year in 1989, and the Capital Gazette’s 1990 Person of the Year.
Applications are available at dnr.maryland.gov/met/land_trusts.asp. The deadline to apply is March 31.
source: MD DNR
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