Kestrel Land Trust has established an Advisory Council to achieve the following goals:

• To increase public awareness about the urgency of protecting the Valley’s land.
• To expand Kestrel’s connections with professional, community, and political networks
• To raise private and public funding to promote land conservation
• To be a source of expertise and advice to the Board of Trustees
• To serve on designated Committees of the Board of Trustees.

Current Advisory Council Members:

Harvey Allen: Naturalist and ornithologist. Former Valley Land Fund board member.

Rosemary Arnold: Business owner, conservation activist, former Chair, Blandford Conservation Commission. Former Valley Land Fund board member.

Paul Beaulieu: Senior Environmental Scientist and manager of Tighe & Bond’s Wetland Services group. Served on the Granby Conservation Commission for ten years. Paul lives in Granby. Former Kestrel Trustee.

Sandy Belden: Bio to come. 

John Body: Dean at Mount Holyoke College, wildlife photographer/videographer. Former Valley Land Fund board member.

David King, PhD: Research wildlife biologist, US Forest Service. Adjunct faculty, Department of Natural Resources Conservation, UMass. David lives in Amherst. Former Kestrel Trustee.

Ann Kearns: Conservation activist, retired Choral Director at Hampshire College. Former Valley Land Fund board member.

Laurie Sanders: Bio to come. 

David Ziomek: Director of Conservation and Development, Town of Amherst. Formerly served as President of the Valley Land Fund, and as a board of trustee for Kestrel Land Trust.