Conservation, Climate Change To Be Addressed Tonight

Arlington MA

19 January, 2021

3:25 PM

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Your Arlington Last Updated: 19 January 2021 Written by ALT newsletter Played role in buying Elizabeth Island The Arlington Land Trust invites you to attend its 20th anniversary annual meeting via Zoom this year at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19. Sign up here to receive the Zoom link to the meeting. The special guest speaker this year is Bob Wilber, director of land conservation at Mass Audubon. Longtime ALT members may recall that Bob was instrumental in helping the land trust negotiate the purchase of Elizabeth Island in 2010. He will address the topic "Land Conservation in the Time of Climate Change." The agenda will include brief reports of recent activities and board member elections. Land conservation has always been an important activity to protect diverse habitats for animals and plants and to provide opportunities for people to experience the wonders of the natural world firsthand. During the last decade, the immense human health benefits of spending time in natural settings have been well documented. More recently, the convergence of two other critically important issues–the need for impactful responses to climate change and the need for environmental equity and justice for all people–has elevated the priority of strategic land conservation to an altogether new level. Bob Wilber has been the director of land conservation for Mass Audubon since 2000. Previously, he worked in similar capacities for the Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and Massachusetts State Forests and Parks. Wilber is a past president of the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition and serves on the group's Board of Trustees. He lives in Stow, where he is president of the all-volunteer Stow Conservation Trust and a member of the Town of Stow's Open Space Committee. During his 35-plus year career, he has been directly involved in the protection of more than 40,000 acres in Massachusetts. YourArlington.com has provided news and opinion about Arlington, Mass., since 2006. Publisher Bob Sprague is a former editor at The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Arlington Advocate. Read more at https://www.yourarlington.com/about.