Who We Are

Steering Committee

Tim Abbott, Housatonic Valley Association

Elyse Arnow, Pound Ridge

David Brant, Aspetuck Land Trust

Rod Christie, Mianus River Gorge

Bob Eckenrode, Newtown Forest Association

David Kvinge, Westchester County

Karalyn Lamb, Native Plant Center

Mary Ellen Lemay, H2H Facilitator

Kristen O’Hara, Westchester Land Trust, H2H Co-Coordinator

Hallie Schwab, Highstead, H2H Co-Coordinator

Advisors

Bill Labich, Highstead

Kara Whelan, Westchester Land Trust

H2H Partner Organizations

New England: Aquarion Water Company, Aspetuck Land Trust, Bethel Land Trust, Brookfield Open Space Legacy, Inc., CT-DEEP, Fairfield County Regional Conservation Partnership, Greenwich Audubon, Greenwich Land Trust, Housatonic Valley Association, Highstead, Redding Land Trust, Newtown Forest Association, Norwalk River Watershed Assoc., Ridgefield Conservation Commission, Ridgefield Land Conservancy, Wilton Land Conservation Trust, Yale University, Stamford Land Conservation Trust.

New York: Bedford Audubon Society, Friends of the Great Swamp, Mianus River Gorge, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Native Plants Center, North Salem Conservation Advisory Council, North Salem Open Land Foundation, Oblong Land Conservancy, Pound Ridge Land Conservancy, Putnam County Land Trust, Saw Mill River Audubon, Somers Land Trust, Teatown Lake Reservation, The Invasives Project – Pound Ridge, Yorktown Advisory Committee on Open Space, Yorktown Land Trust, Watershed Agricultural Council, Westchester County, Westchester Land Trust.

Special Thanks

H2H partners have coordinated dozens of outreach events throughout our service area.  In total, these events armed landowners with practical resources to better steward their land and understand their conservation options.  These events would not have been possible without the sizable in-kind support of the following conservation professionals: