Adirondack Chapter

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…and we’ve only just begun.

of conservation

“13,000-Acre Wilderness TrAcT in AdirondAcks Given To sTATe,” February 19, 1972, New york Times

“lAnd TrusT Acquires cAnoe cArry rouTe neAr Tupper lAke,” February 8, 1989, waTerTowN Daily Times

“domTAr purchAse To enhAnce locAl recreATion ,” ThursDay, JaNuary 6, 2005, Press rePublicaN

“lAnd sAle preserves hudson river’s ArcTic-like hAbiTAT,” July 16, 1994, New york Times

Conservation Results You Can Experience Firsthand No matter where you are in the Adirondacks, chances are high that you are not far from a property protected by The Nature Conservancy’s Adirondack Chapter or the Adirondack Land Trust. The sites on this map represent some of our cooperative projects with New York State that have resulted in wonderful new public lands, as well as conservation easement lands with public access, and, of course, the many nature preserves we own and manage. If you visit any of these places, we’d love to hear about it. Drop us an email at adirondacks@tnc.org, leave a comment about a nature preserve on our Web site, www.nature.org/adirondacks, or “tweet” us at @AdirondackTNC.

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1 Bartlett Bay, Upper Saranac Lake

2 Big Simons Pond, Tupper Lake

3 Black River Environmental Improvement Association, Oneida County (breiax-countryski.org)

4 Blue Mountain, Blue Mountain Lake

5 Camp Cedarlands, Long Lake***

6 Camp Massawepie, Piercefield***

7 Clintonville Pine Barrens, Clintonville

8 Coon Mountain Nature Preserve, Westport

9 Dunham Bay Marsh, Lake George

10 Everton Falls Nature Preserve, St Regis

11 Forked Lake, Long Lake

12 Four Brothers Islands Nature Preserve, Willsboro (Lake Champlain)

13 Gadway Sandstone Pavement Barrens, Mooers

14 Hammond Pond Wild Forest, Schroon Lake

15 Hudson River Ice Meadows

16 Kings Bay Wildlife Management Area, Champlain

17 Lake Lila, Long Lake

18 Lewis Preserve Wildlife Management Area, Altona

19 Little Tupper Lake, Long Lake

20 Lows Lake, Long Lake/Colton

21 Lyon Mountain, Saranac/Dannemora

22 Monty’s Bay, Beekmantown

23 Moose River, Old Forge

24 Moss Lake, Eagle Bay*

25 Mossy Cascade & Snow Mountain, Keene Valley

26 Noblewood Park, Willsboro

27 Osgood Pond, Paul Smiths

28 Poke-O-Moonshine, Chesterfield/Lewis

29 Round Lake, Long Lake

30 Sable Highlands easement lands, Franklin and Clinton Counties

31 Santanoni Preserve, Newcomb*

32 Shelving Rock, Lake George

33 Silver Lake Bog Nature Preserve, Black Brook (Hawkeye)*

34 Southern Lake Champlain wetlands

35 Split Rock Mountain, Essex

36 Spring Pond Bog Nature Preserve, Tupper Lake**

37 Upper Hudson Woodlands easement lands, Indian Lake to Newcomb connector trail

38 Valcour Island, Peru (Lake Champlain)

39 Webb Royce Swamp, Essex

40 Wilcox Lake Wild Forest, Wells

* Wheel-chair accessible

** Requires a gate pass

*** Only accessible to public September to June

The core strength of the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and the Adirondack Land Trust is its deeply engaged board members. Our organizations benefit immensely from their expertise, wisdom and commitment. At this summer’s annual meeting, we bid a fond farewell to Barbara Glaser, who completed her term of service, and welcomed new members, Jamie Baxter, Lee Keet, Jon Linen, and Peter Paine.

Carter F. Bales Founding Partner, The New World Capital Group in NYC, Big Wolf Lake

Jameson Adkins BaxterFounder and president, Baxter Associates Limekiln Lake

Barbara L. Bedford, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate, Cornell University

William H. Boardman, Jr. Retired Associate Vice President and Director, Harvard University Keene

Charles Canham, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Millbrook, NY

John Colston Consultant with high-tech firms for Web-based products Long Lake

Michael DiNunzio Consulting Ecolo-gist, Adirondacks Cumberland Head

J. Edward Fowler, Secretary Retired general counsel, Mobil Corporation Keene Valley

Carol I. Fox Vice President, corporate strategy at Thomson Re-uters, NYC

Robert E. Friedman Attorney, Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman in NYC Tupper Lake/Camp Kildare

Joan Hansen Grabe Civic Leader, Southport, CT Upper Saranac Lake

Harry Groome Writer; retired Chairman, Smith-Kline Beecham Consumer HealthCare Keene Valley

David Henle, Treasurer President, DLH Capital in NYC Piseco

David P. Hunt Chairman, Charles Pratt & Company in NYC, Old Forge

Lee Keet Founder, private equity fund and retired software entrepreneur Lake Colby

Jonathan Linen Retired Vice Chairman, American Express Company, NYC Minerva

Douglas S. Luke, Vice-Chairman President and CEO, H.L. Capital in NYC Keene Valley

Lawrence L. Master, Ph.D. Retired Chief Zoologist, Nature-Serve and TNC Lake Placid

Bill McKibben Author, scholar-in-residence at Middlebury Col-lege, VT Johnsburg

Bruce McLanahan Attorney, adjunct professor, Ford-ham University Upper Saranac Lake

Edward W. McNeil Pilot, retired engineer and real estate executive Lake Placid

> > > B o a r d o f T r u s T e e sMark Pacala Oak Hill Capital Partners, NYC Silver Bay on Lake George

Peter S. Paine, Jr. Attorney; chair-man, Champlain National Bank Willsboro

William L. Paternotte, Chairman Partner Brown Advisory in Baltimore Keene Valley

Meredith M. Prime Civic Leader and co-founder, Adirondack Com-munity Trust Lake Placid

Michael Richter Partner, Environ-mental Capital Partners in NYC Lake Placid

Charles Svenson Senior Managing Director, Brock Capital Group in NYC Upper Saranac Lake

Amy Vedder, Ph.D. Senior Vice President for Conservation, The Wilderness Society, Washington, DC Thurman

Brock Weath-erup CEO, PetFoodDi-rect, Philadelphia-Paul Smiths/ Bay Pond Park

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Dear friends of the Adirondacks, Forty years after the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy’s founding, we have helped protect over 571,000 acres, which coincidentally, is just about equivalent in size to 40 Manhattan Islands. We have also forged numerous innovative partnerships around environmental challenges and added to the scientific body of knowledge about the Park and its ecosystems.

Many of the places we’ve protected over the years are now public treasures, open for all to enjoy; some are still in private ownership, protected by conserva-

tion easements. Some, including, most significantly, 161,000 acres formerly owned by Finch, Pruyn & Company and the 14,600-acre Follensby Pond tract, are conservation efforts still in progress. Cumulatively, all of the work contributes to the Adirondack Park’s distinctive mosaic of land own-ership patterns and uses—and the hope it represents for people and nature.

The Adirondack story, our Adirondack story, is but one of thousands that make up the collec-tive reach of The Nature Conservancy. Our local successes contribute to 60 years of conservation accomplishments being celebrated this year by The Nature Conservancy—accomplishments that began with the protection of Mianus River Gorge in New York and have since spread to all 50 states and more than 30 countries around the world.

Here and everywhere the Conservancy works, its effectiveness is rooted in science, bolstered by a strong sense of place, seasoned with an optimistic can-do spirit, and made possible through the generous support of individuals, families, businesses and foundations. We look forward to continued success in the Adirondacks and beyond. Thank you for being a part of it all.

Sincerely,

Bill Paternotte Michael Carr Board Chair Executive Director

40 YEARS oF CoNSERVAtIoN

• Big anniversary years naturally lend themselves to reflection. Though not a complete list of every accomplishment since 1971, the milestones described on the following pages illustrate our staying power and effectiveness. While one staff person, Tim Barnett, has been here for almost all of those 40 years, many of our staff were yet to be born in the 1970s or much less the early 80s when we really began to define “landscape scale” conservation. No matter: the results of our work live on and will outlast each of us, touching many generations.

In addition to highlighting tangible conservation results, this timeline reveals our signature strengths: finding innovative, prag-matic solutions to environmental threats, striving for balance in an increasingly complex world, and adjusting or staying course when necessary. It also shows momentum that will carry us forward well into the future. (Some acronyms and abbreviations explained: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC or DEC), New York State (NYS), The Nature Conservancy (Conservancy or TNC), Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (Adirondack Chapter or Conservancy), Adirondack Land Trust (ALT))

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1970s

• Adirondack Chapter estab-lished - Governor Rockefeller in 1968 created a temporary study commission, which was mandated to recommend policies for responsible use and protection of the Adirondacks. After two years of study, the commission made 181 recommendations. The final one was that an Adirondack Nature Conservancy be established. What is now known as the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Con-servancy was founded one year later.

• First land protection project, Santanoni Preserve – 12,500 acres purchased at a bargain price and then donated to NYSDEC. Today a major tourist attraction that includes an historic great camp accessible by foot, skis, mountain bike, or horseback five miles down a forest road.

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At this year’s Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference,

staff scientist, Michelle Brown, delivered a presentation about our

far-reaching aquatic connectivity and transportation planning work. Field technician Gus Goodwin is pictured here assessing a culvert

in the Black River Valley.Aquatic Habitat Connectivity{

NEW NAtuRE PRESERVES

• Everton Falls-529 acres, including shoreline on East Branch of the St. Regis River.

• Silver Lake Bog - land dona-tion to the Conservancy from Silver Lake Camp for Girls, which ran from 1911-1972.

• Big Simonds Pond – a small island near Tupper Lake.

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NEW PuBLIC LANDS

• Valcour Island, Lake Champlain - purchased a small tract and transferred to NYS, and assisted the state about a decade later in acquiring the rest.

• Dunham Bay Marsh - 1,400-acre wetland on Lake George.

PuBLIC/PRIVAtE LAND-SAVE

• Nehasne – 24,954-acre tract protected through a combination of new public land, the 14,646-acre Lake Lila parcel, and NYS con-servation easement.

• First landscape-scale project begins - in one year (1978-79), working with a small group of private landowners, protected 78,000 acres, primarily with conservation easements that we continue to steward. Some 50,000 of these acres make up the Boreal Heritage Preserve, a vast connected area within which thrive a colossal mosaic of fens, bogs, swamps and forests that constitute the largest assemblage of boreal ecosystems east of the Mississippi.

“sTATe ForesT preserve GeTTinG A TrAcT The size oF mAnhATTAn”December 5, 1971,

The New york Times

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• New York State Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers Act passes in 1972.

in the face of climate change and climate-related events like more frequent and more intense storms, the links between naturally flowing river systems and transpor-tation infrastructure are becoming more evident. The increasing pressures on human communities and aquatic wildlife are interrelated. So, too, are some of the strate-gies for preparing both for what many are calling the

“new normal” of heavy downpours and flooding. For the past couple of years, we’ve been working in partnership with the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) and other agencies to develop innovative planning tools to help focus scarce resources toward strategic culvert replacement and design that would protect important habitat while also withstanding extreme water flows. The tools can be applied as part of routine transportation maintenance work, making them implementation-ready.

In May, The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the Ausable River Association and SUNY Plattsburgh, received a $46,000 grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program to expand freshwater habitat connectivity work. The grant allowed us to apply our statewide aquatic connec-tivity computer model (previously developed with DOT under a separate grant) to a local area—the Ausable River watershed. The project identified potentially problematic barriers to aquatic species, such as dams and culverts, using inputs based on habitat needs of brook trout and other species, as well as other factors. Students took the “outputs” to the field this summer to inventory the priority cul-verts, assess them for aquatic species passage, and apply the new data to refine the computer model.

We applaud the related efforts of the US Fish and Wildlife Service in partnership with the Aus-able River Association taking the results to the

next level by securing funds for towns in the Ausable Basin to retrofit or replace priority culverts in a fish-friendly and forward-thinking way. Instead of replacing old, ineffective culverts with new ones of the same design and limitations, these funds allow towns to afford fish-friendly, storm-worthy culverts in key places already identified as needing an upgrade. This is particularly important following two record-breaking and devastating floods in the past year.

We look forward to continuing our work with partners like DOT, USFWS, and others to find practical and effective solutions to growing threats to people and nature.

Design and maintenance of culverts make a difference to fish. The design in the left image can facilitate aquatic connectivity for brook trout and other spe-cies, while the right image design would serve as a barrier particularly when water levels are low. Our work with DOT and other partners promotes ecologically-based design upgrades as part of routine maintenance work.

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Response teams

For the first time ever, APIPP dramatically bolstered its on-the-ground management efforts with rapid response teams for terrestrial and aquatic invasive species. Each team, consist-ing of four seasonal staff, moved swiftly across the region all summer combating invasive species head on. The teams were quickly dispatched to investigate reported findings of poten-tial invaders. They also conducted surveys along roadways and water bodies to monitor for new threats and destroy estab-lished populations.

This aggressive approach, which is critical for immediate results and long-term success, is something that has been on the program’s wish list for many years. The aquatic response team was funded by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant awarded to Paul Smith’s College. A private foundation grant to APIPP generously funded the terrestrial team. APIPP and partners will seek sustained funding for this new and effective strategy.

Hats off to Volunteers

Aquatic Volunteers- This year marked the 10th anniversary for lake surveys on water bodies in the region. More than 500 volunteers keep watchful eyes on waterways to record and report presence/absence data on aquatic invaders. Of the 266 lakes that have been surveyed to date, 64 percent are free of invasives.

Future Stewards

Two youth camps lent extra hands to assist with invasive shrub removal at popular trail heads in the High Peaks. The teams, Ramah Camp from New York City and Beckett Chim-ney Corners from Vermont, removed harmful invaders such as buckthorn, honeysuckle, and barberry.

Say Hello to a Water Steward

Paul Smith’s College and partners coordinated nearly 30 stewards who had a hand in protecting Adirondack waterways this summer. Stationed at boat launches across the region and river access sites along the Ausable River, stewards engaged aquatic recreationists and inspected gear for hitch-hiking invaders.

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1980sNEW NAtuRE PRESERVES

• Four Brothers Islands, Lake Champlain – provide habitat for colonial nesting bird species.

• Gadway Sandstone Pave-ment Barrens – 285 acres donated by the Patten Corporation.

• Spring Pond Bog - 4,278 acres featuring important boreal habitat and second largest open peatland in the state.

NEW PuBLIC LANDS

• Alder Brook Park – 2,700 acres in Franklin County conveyed to NYS, along with a conservation easement on an adjoining 1,200 acres.

NEW PARtNERSHIPS

• Adirondack Land trust established in 1984 to protect open space and working landscapes such as farmlands and managed forests, as well as other lands contributing to the quality of life in the Adirondacks. Joined forces with Adirondack Chapter in 1988 in order to address a broad scope of conservation needs in the Adirondacks.

• Indian Canoe Carry - near State Route 3, allowed for improved portage from Stony Creek Ponds to Upper Saranac Lake.

• Grasse River – 433-acre tract with 2.5 miles on the river’s south branch.

“conservAncy, dec Join To compile endAnGered species inFormATion ,”

ocTober 12, 1984, Daily GazeTTe

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A Friendly Notification

During their routine travels along Adiron-dack roadways, APIPP staff sometimes notice invasive infestations on private lands. This year, they tested a new way of reaching out to landowners by leav-ing friendly door-hanger notifications alerting them to a suspected harmful plant and providing helpful information and management options.The response from landowners has been positive.

the Adirondack

Park Invasive Plant Program directed private grant funds this year toward the

Town of Inlet’s Re-gional Inlet Invasive

Plant Program to control Japanese knotweed in vari-ous communities.

APIPP’s response team was equipped this year with a set of four door-hanger notification cards to alert private landowners to possible in-festations of purple loosestrife, garlic mustard, Japanese knotweed, or yellow iris. More than 50 recipients already have called for additional information.

RIIPP

The Regional Inlet Invasive Plant Program (RIIPP) is step-ping up its efforts to control Japanese knotweed in hamlets in the park. This is community-based conservation at its best. Cheers to these volunteer leaders!

Learn more online at http://noknotweed.org.

Reaching out in New Ways

Suggestions from program partners and friends prompted APIPP’s Meghan Johnstone to start blogging about invasive alerts, interesting news articles and field work goings on.

Check it out at http://adk-invasives.blogspot.com/ .

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• Ecologist Jerry Jenkins hired by Heritage program to study southwestern corner of the Adirondack Park

• $20,000 research grant awarded to Adirondack Chapter by Harris Corpora-tion, of Florida, to inventory and protect outstanding examples of plants, animals, and natu-ral communities in the Upper Champlain Valley.

• New York Natural Heri-tage Program established as a partnership between the Conservancy and NYSDEC to document and track status and distribution of plants, animals and natural communities.

• By 1989, 743 land trusts protected 1.9 million acres in 45 states, according to a Land Trust Alliance census. LTA is a national network of non-profit land conservation organizations. Both The Nature Conservancy and the Adiron-dack Land Trust are members.

• Champlain Valley Farm and Forest program launched.

• Lake George Basin Land Conservancy started by the FUND for Lake George and staffed by The Nature Conser-vancy. Its mission: preserving the lake’s water quality by protecting the natural lands throughout the 150,000-acre watershed. LGBLC’s first director: Michael Carr. Its current director: Nancy Williams, who launched the group, now called Lake George Land Conservancy, to indepen-dence in 2007.

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there are upwards of 85 landowners associated with the conservation easements held by the Adirondack Chapter of the

Nature Conservancy and the Adirondack Land trust combined. Our stewardship staff stays in touch with all of them and visits the eased properties

every year. Mike Carr is pictured here with dairy farmer Chris Spaulding.

NEW NAtuRE PRESERVES

• Coon Mountain – ALT’s premiere nature preserve in Westport, NY.

• Saddles Preserve - 2,500 acres at the very southern tip of Lake Champlain.

• Hudson River Ice Mead-ows – 16 miles of shoreline that harbor unique arctic plants.

NEW PuBLIC LANDS

• Forked Lake - more than two miles of shoreline formerly owned by the Whitney fam-ily protected through land and easement transfers.

• Little tupper Lake - 15,000 acres, combined with Lake Lila tract to become William C. Whit-ney Wilderness Area.

• Lake George shoreline – 4.5 miles, three separate projects.

• Revis Lewis Preserve - 1,356-acre wildlife management area on the Great Chazy River.

PuBLIC/PRIVAtE LAND SAVE

• Massawepie Scout Reservation – 2,700 acres, which includes the largest peat-land in NY, open to public when Boy Scout Camp is not in session.

• Lyons Falls Pulp & Paper project – three tracts of privately owned land, a total of 17,379 acres adjoining the Black River Wild Forest, West Canada Wilderness, Ha-De-Ron Dah Wil-derness and Independence River Wild Forest, ultimately protected by NYS conservation easement after a series of land purchases and swaps.

1990s

• Split Rock Wild Forest – 1,836 acres on Lake Champlain, in partnership with the Open Space Institute.

• Noblewood Park estab-lished on the shore of Lake Champlain at the mouth of the Boquet River, for the Town of Willsboro.

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• Jones Point – on Lake Champlain.

• Windfall Pond – a 1,650-acre property with a heritage strain of brook trout.

The Spaulding dairy farm in Crown Point, NY, is one of 16 farms in the Champlain Valley protected by conservation easement through the Adirondack Land Trust. The Spaulding family was among the first to settle the region in the 1700s. Back when production and distribution of commodi-

ties was less complex, there were at least a dozen dairy farms in Crown Point. Now, the Spaulding farm is the last remaining dairy pro-ducer in that town. Run by Chris and Cathy Spaulding, the operation today consists of 160 Jersey cross cows and one full-time employee.

We came to know Chris in 1992 when he added a 112-acre eased property to his farm-land holdings. In 2006, he obtained organic certification for his operation. While admit-ting it was a lot of work, he noted that the transition was well worthwhile, a sentiment that seems to be growing in the region. In fact, at least 40% of surveyed conventional farm-ers in New York have stated some level of interest in organic farming, and New York ranks among the top 10 states in the country for the number of organic farms (American Farmland

Trust). Most of Spaulding’s organic milk is sold to Organic Valley, the company that produces Stonyfield Farm Yogurt. Some of it also ships locally to Clover Meade Farm in Kees-eville, where it is used to make artisan cheese.

This local component is one of the core values of the farm and an important part of sustainable economies and food security. The percentage of New York State residents who say

they will “go out of their way” to buy local foods is 37.4% (American Farmland Trust). As a result, farmland protection has become recognized as a strategy for economic growth and renewal. In recent years the Spaulding family has been working to protect another 390 acres under a conservation easement, a move they hope will ensure the protection and viability of farming on the land for generations to come.

Our farmland protection projects typically involve long-term partnerships with farmers like Chris Spaulding, along with state and fed-eral agricultural agencies and local counties with farmland protection plans in place. For qualify-

ing farms, the state pays up to 75% of the appraised market value of the conservation easement through grant allocations from the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF).

Landowner SpotlightChris Spaulding, Organic Farmer

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• Summit Steward Program – a partnership of our chapter, the Adirondack Mountain Club and NYSDEC, is an educational outreach effort established to safeguard rare and endangered alpine vegetation on the Adiron-dacks’ highest summits.

• the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program - a cooperative effort initiated in 1998 among citizens, state agencies, and organizations of the Adirondacks to protect the region from the negative impacts of non-native invasive

species. The program, housed in our Keene Valley office, has won several national and local awards.

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• NYS open Space Conservation Plan – adopted in 1992, provides the first-ever blueprint for statewide conservation priorities. The plan, which is updated periodically, reflects a grassroots process with extensive public comment.

• NYS Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) – created by the Legislature in July of 1993, pro-viding a dedicated fund for a variety of

environmental programs, including priority land purchases.

PRIVAtE LAND CoNSERVAtIoN

NEW PARtNERSHIPS

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“sTATe sTeWArds GuArd AdirondAcks’ Alpine FlorA” auGusT 26, 1990, New york Times

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10-year-old edward hoffman raised $ 1,000 for rain forest conserva-tion work. Edward presented the gift in person to then-Nature Conservancy President John Sawhill. One year later, Edward raised $1,330 to protect 38 acres of rain forest. (See related story to find out what the now 28-year-old Edward is up to these days.)

1990s cont.

In going through old newsletters to cull interesting tidbits for this special edition annual report, we came across two stories about Edward Hoffman’s efforts to raise more than $2,300 for rainforest protection. It caught our attention because he was only ten years old at the time. We recently contacted Edward—18 years later—to see if the initiative and drive behind that action may have foreshadowed the direction his life would take. Not only did Edward go on to earn a Natural Resource Management degree from Cornell University, he also con-tinued his efforts in land conservation and started a company called Hoffman Environ-mental Services, which focused on minimiz-ing the impact of development on the natural environment. He has since left to work for SES Biofuels, a renewable energy company focused on the production of biodiesel, where he is a partner and vice president. Edward spent a lot of time in the Adiron-dacks as a child and continues to visit the High Peaks area. His parents are longtime supporters of our chapter.

Q. What motivated you to raise funds for the rainforest as a 10-year-old?

A. I read too many stories about the rainforest disappearing and not enough about it being saved. I came home from school one day and told my mom

I wanted to buy land in the rainfor-est. I had no idea what that would entail, but thankfully, she didn’t dismiss my idea but rather helped me find The Nature Conservancy’s “Adopt-an-Acre” program. From then on I did things like host bake sales and raffled off Sega Genesis video games to raise the money.

Q. Looking back, what was it like to hand off the first check for $1,000 to the President of the Nature Conservancy at the time, John Sawhill?

A. I think I was too young to really grasp the magnitude of the event or to even be nervous. I just remember enjoying listening to him speak.

Q. Did this experience provide you any lessons that have carried over into your current life or recent efforts with conservation?

A. That first effort was very informative. It taught me at a young age that any one per-son can affect positive change; that problems aren’t too big for one person to help solve.

Q. Did you do any work with the Nature Conservancy following that first effort?

A. It actually seems like life keeps drawing me back to Nature Conservancy

projects. I did some volunteer work in col-lege for the organization, and just recently completed a shoreline stabilization project on Sapelo Island off the coast of Geor-gia, which the Nature Conservancy was involved in funding and monitoring.

Q. What are you doing now?A. The project on Sapelo Island was one

of the last projects I completed through Hoffman Environmental Services. Now, I’m involved in the growth and implementation of Biodiesel programs in and around the city of Savannah. One of our most inter-esting projects has been the city’s trolley system, which now runs on biodiesel pro-duced at our plant from local restaurants’ used oil.

• Volunteer program launches.

• u.K. Countryside Steward-ship Exchange Program visited with ALT in the Champlain Valley as part of an international study on rural land issues.

• the Northwest Flow Proj-ect brings together landowners to address the challenges of maintaining large holdings.

• International Paper Company and Adirondack Chapter partner to protect largest bat hibernaculum in the Northeast, in abandoned mines on timberlands. A decade later, a deadly virus, white-nose syndrome, wipes out the popula-tion almost entirely. Scientists continue to monitor and assess the situation.

• Exemplary natural communities – an original inventory identifying the best examples of 100 natural com-munity types in the Adirondacks, many of which are unparalleled in the Northeast.

• ALt helps to establish Adirondack Harvest, which promotes sustainable farming.

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Then and Now

In 1993, during an event at the Ausable Club in St. Hu-

berts, New York, 10-year-old Edward Hoffman presented a

check for rain forest protection work to John Sawhill, who served

as The Nature Conservancy’s President from 1990 to 2000.

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PRIVAtE LAND CoNSERVAtIoN

• upper St. Regis – multiple properties—95 acres with 8,500 feet of shoreline.

• Lake Placid – 418 acres adja-cent to High Peaks Wilderness.

• twitchell Lake – 28 acres with 1,300 feet of shoreline adja-cent to Pigeon Lake Wilderness.

2000sNEW PuBLIC LANDS

• Mossy Cascade and Snow Mountain - added to Giant Mountain and High Peaks Wil-derness areas, respectively.

• Poke-o-Moonshine – tract added to existing Forest Pre-serve, improving access.

PuBLIC/PRIVAtE LAND SAVES

• International Paper Lakes - 26,500 acres purchased and pro-tected as follows: 6,936 acres of new public lands, including Round Lake; 2,591 acres sold to private buyers and protected by work-ing forest conservation easement; 15,500 acres protected by “forever wild” conservation easement and sold to private buyers.

• Champlain Valley Farmlands – nearly 4,000 agricultural acres protected in coordination with farmers, local counties and New York Farmland Protection Program.

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a d v e r T i s e f o r n a T u r e

Every year, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise invites area stu-dents to participate in its “Design-an-Ad” contest. From restaurants

to dentists, retail shops to bowling alleys, the kids select all kinds of busi-nesses to feature. To our great honor, many have sketched some clever

ads over the years for our chapter of The Nature Conservancy. These two are from fall of 2010. (In an interesting twist of fate, one-time ad-designer

Amy Ignatuk came to work for us as a summer intern in 2009, several years after her days as a Keene Central School student).

Ads reprinted with permission from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

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• Sable Highlands - 104,000 acres purchased and protected as follows: 84,000 acres sold to a timber com-pany and protected by working forest conservation easement that allows for some public access; 20,000 acres of new public lands, including Lyon Mountain.

• our Headwaters Campaign raised $34.7 million, exceeding its goal by $11.2 million, to support science, stewardship and land protection work in the Adirondacks.

• International conserva-tion exchanges - Domini-can Republic, Chile, China, Altai Republic, Canada, Mexico, and Africa.

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• Staying Connected in the Northern Forest - Depart-

ments of Transporta-tion, local land trusts, Wildlife Conservation Society, US Fish & Wildlife, Conservancy programs, and a host of others collaborate on habitat connectiv-ity work in key wildlife linkages across four states.

2007• Purchased 161,000 acres (the

size of 11 Manhattan Islands) of globally important forests and wildlife habitat, featuring 16,000 acres of wetlands, more than 300 lakes and ponds, 90 mountains, and 425 miles of rivers and streams. Purchase price: $110 million. Property also known as the “Finch lands” for previous owner Finch, Pruyn & Co., a paper manufacturer in Glens Falls.

• First major contribu-tions made to Heart of the Adirondacks campaign, the largest private fundraising effort for conservation in the history of the Adirondack Park.

• Conducted a rapid ecologi-cal assessment and reached out to elected officials, town boards, hunt clubs, and other interested parties to develop a conservation plan for the future of the property.

• New York times editorial, A Deal Worth Cheering, published on June 20, 2007, putting purchase in the context of timber industry shifts and importance of keeping large ecosystems intact.

2008• Announced jointly with NYS-

DEC the conservation plan for the northernmost holdings of the property.

• Conservation plan that balanc-es competing interests and sup-ports local economies approved by all 27 towns: 92,000 acres to continue to be working forests with sustainable logging, 65,000 acres to become part of the Forest Preserve and available to everyone for

recreation, and 1,100 acres set aside for community purposes in several towns.

• Ecological assess-ments conducted by NY Natural Heritage Program scientists focused on tracts identified as suitable for con-tinued timber harvest. Results “uploaded” into the conser-vation easement design.

• Follensby Pond - purchased the 14,600-acre

tract, a statewide conservation priority of the NYS Open Space Conservation Plan. (Holding for transfer to NYSDEC.)

• Specially trained scat-sniffing dogs found more evidence of moose on the Boreas Ponds tract than anywhere else they visited in the Adirondack Park under a project coordinated by the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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Heart of the Adirondacks

The Heart of the Adirondacks is a globally important forest and freshwater conser-vation effort that balances ecology and human economy. Through this 175,600-acre project, we are linking some 860,000 protected acres within a landscape that

offers hope for meaningful preservation of a forest type that historically has suffered more abuses than any other on earth. Sustainable forestry, community objectives, and exciting new public lands are all a part of the conservation vision.

Not only are we making the most of the head start we’ve inherited from previous generations who put the wheels in motion to protect key watersheds that flow from the sparsely settled Adirondack Mountains to more populous places like New York City, we are also setting new standards for com-munity involvement and innovative conservation strategies.

It’s been a long haul since the project got underway in 2007. The intervening financial crises may have added some challenges, but, as this project timeline shows, we’ve made astounding progress and our commitment to com-pleting this project is resolute. As we move forward, the greatest source of hope and inspiration is the variety of people with whom we are working to make history—local leaders, outdoor guides, forestry professionals, philanthro-pists, business owners, and many others.

2000s cont.

“sTATe To preserve heArT oF AdirondAcks”February 15, 2008, The New york Times

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• “Adirondack Wilderness” – teamed up with photographer Nathan Farb and ecologist Jerry Jenkins to publish a must-have coffee-table book.

• Lake Champlain biodi-versity assessment – a Conservancy-wide focus on freshwater conservation led us to work with partners on a spe-cial report looking at the lake’s aquatic ecosystems.

• In 2004, Land trust Alli-ance reported that 1,526 local and regional land trusts had protected 9.4 million acres.

2009• Sold 92,000 acres, offered

on the open market as “Upper Hudson Woodlands,” to Danish pension fund ATP Timberland Invest for $32.88 million. Henrik Gade Jepsen, CEO, said the investment “meets the high standards of our commitment to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.”

• Mireya Navarro’s article, “92,000 Acres Sold in Ad-irondacks, With Protection Pledge” ran in the New York Times on March 31, 2009.

• New York State Snowmo-bile Association takes lead on trail planning and preparation in coordination with local towns and state agencies.

• Heart of the Adirondacks capital campaign reaches $16.2 million.

• Interviewed local leaders, guides and business own-ers about the project. Views expressed were largely positive. Newcomb Supervisor George Canon, for instance, said, “The snowmobile trail connections are very big. The proposal is to con-nect Newcomb, Minerva, Long Lake, Indian Lake and North Hudson…It’s pretty great to get some real economic benefit from it.”

2010• Citizen and professional sci-

entists cataloged 552 species of plants and animals (none of them invasive) during two 24-hour “bioblitz” events at Follensby Pond. Results celebrated with the public at the Wild Center.

• NYSDEC purchased the working forest conservation easement for $30 million on upper Hudson Wood-lands, ensuring the lands will continue to support timber jobs and securing specific public rec-reation opportunities identified as important by local communi-ties and various user groups. Snowmobile connector trails opened in Essex, Warren, Ham-ilton, and Saratoga Counties. A new diner with a gas pump and convenience store opened in Newcomb in anticipation of new trails.

• In recognition of the Conser-vancy’s extensive community outreach process, participated in a panel discussion, “Perspectives on the Park, its communities and its future,” at the Adirondack Park Local Government Day, an annual event sponsored by the Adirondack Park Agency and the Local Government Review Board.

2011 • Motion sensitive cameras

set on Boreas Ponds tract cap-ture moose, coyote, fisher, great blue heron and other critters.

• Contract with Finch Forest Management continues for oversight of sustainable timber harvest operations and recre-ational leasing program.

• Heart of the Adirondacks campaign surpasses $30 million.

• Adirondack Life published “Return to the Source: the Case for Saving Follensby Pond and the Philosophers’ Camp,” written by Christo-pher Shaw. Contemplating the promise of future public access, he asks, “Could you even have a complete Adirondack experience without going to Follensby Pond, any more than you could without climbing Mount Marcy or sleep-ing in a lean-to?”

• NYSDEC’s Conservationist magazine published a fea-ture about upper Hudson Woodlands conservation easement. The piece high-lights how the state’s invest-ment is as much about people as it is forests.

2012 and some years beyond • Former Finch tracts with

the most unique ecological features and exceptional recreational opportunities will be transferred in stages to NYSDEC and made available to the public for recreation and respite. When all is said and done, OK Slip Falls, Essex Chain of Lakes, Thousand-Acre Swamp, and many more special places will be secured as priceless legacies for future generations.

• After that – Follensby Pond tract will be transferred to NYSDEC, fulfilling the McMormick family’s vision for the property to become a public asset and putting it on course to become a signature destination for Adirondack visitors and local residents. Countless students and their professors will visit Follensby Pond to contemplate the intersection of science and philosophy.

• the forests on all of these tracts will continue to filter fresh water, clean our air, provide habitat for wildlife, as well as store carbon as they grow and mature at nature’s pace.

heart of the adirondacks - this project is so complex that it merits its own mini timeline.

• Adirondack Chapter begins to host high school interns from New York City, as part of a program now called LEAF, Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future.

• Adirondack Conservation Internship Program – a career-building program established in 2006 offering opportunities for young people to gain practical skills and professional experience in the field of conservation.

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• Climate Change in the Champlain Basin: What natural resource managers can expect and do – published one of the first efforts in North Amer-ica to assess climate change on a watershed scale and offer adaptation strategies.

• NYS Comptroller, thomas P. DiNapoli, issues a report on the economic benefits of open space conservation.

The Heart of the Adirondacks, featuring the Finch and Follensby properties and including Blue Ledge (pictured above) and 43 miles of Hudson River shoreline, is a globally important forest and freshwater conservation effort. The ecological and historic impacts of this epic undertaking

demand that we collectively stretch beyond what we dreamed possible in order to see it through. Private support is essen-tial to our ability to maintain the promise we and the state of New York made to the public and future generations.

The Heart of the Adirondacks is the most ambitious private fundraising campaign for conservation in the history of the Adirondack Park. The sustained enthusiasm of our donors is

extremely heartening. We are grateful to everyone who has made a contribution and pleased to report that generous supporters have committed $32 million to date.

We gratefully acknowledge the following friends who have made gifts or pledges to the campaign. In those instances when donors made a multi-year commitment, they are listed by the full amount of their pledge. Due to space limitations gifts of $1,000 or more are listed on the opposite page. Every gift is important and contributes to a lasting legacy. (We do our best to ensure accuracy, so please let us know if you spot an error or omission.)

Contact Nancy Van Wie, at 518.576.2082 x139 or nvanwie@tnc.org, to find out how you can participate in this once-in-a-lifetime conservation opportunity.

2010s • Mountain lion – NYSDEC released an analysis of tracks and hair confirming that a moun-tain lion, originally from South Dakota, traveled about 1,800 miles (including a stop in Lake George) in search of a mate, before it was killed by a car this summer in Connecticut. This story speaks to the importance of securing wildlife corridors between forested regions to allow for species to someday return to areas they were once pushed out of.

• Adirondack native and friend of the Conservancy and Land trust Malinda Chapman uses her “outside Voice” to support a nationwide campaign encouraging Americans to speak up for nature. Watch a video and add your voice to the cause:

www.outsidevoice.com.

• Conservationist of the Year Award- for its pioneering work on invasive species issues, APIPP received formal recognition from the Adirondack Council at a ceremony in Piseco, NY.

Campaign Reaches New Heights {

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$2,500,000 and upAnonymousButler Conservation Fund

& Butler Fund for the Environment

Wild Adirondacks Fund

$1,000,000-$2,499,999AnonymousEstate of J. Philip AndereggMr. Daniel C. Chung &

Ms. Alexandra AlgerMr. & Mrs. David Henle

The Joan C. & David L. Henle Foundation

Lee & Nancy KeetEstate of Cynthia LeffertsNorthern Forest Protection Fund,

administered by the Open Space Conservancy, an affiliate of the Open Space Institute

The Selz FoundationWeatherup Family Foundation

Connie & Craig WeatherupBrock & Mary Weatherup

$500,000-$999,999Anonymous (3)An affiliate of Blue Wolf Capital

Fund II, L.P.Mr. D. O’Neill

$250,000-$499,999Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. John BogleMr. William & Mrs. Joan GrabeHarry & Lyn GroomeF.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.Lowe’s Charitable & Educational

FoundationDouglas & Sarah LukeBruce McLanahan Edward W. McNeilMrs. Annette Merle-SmithEstate of J. Dudley MoylanCharles & Sally SvensonEstate of Amy P. Upjohn

$100,000-$249,999Anonymous (2)Carter & Suzy BalesJameson & Reginald BaxterLawrence B. BenensonMs. Bobbie Braun

The Neuwirth Foundation, Inc.Peter and Lucia Carmen Buck

Foundation Mr. & Mrs. J. Dennis DelafieldMax & Victoria Dreyfus

Foundation Inc.John & Margot ErnstMr. & Mrs. John EvangelakosJohn & Carol FoxCarolyn & Ed FowlerBarbara L. Glaser

The Nordlys Foundation, Inc.Jeffrey & Paula GuralTad & Nancy JeffreyEric Katzman & Melissa Elstein

Kevin & Betty Ann KeaneMr. Nathaniel J. KlipperLori A. LancasterMr. Sandor G. Lehoczky &

Ms. Martha A. EscobarMr. & Mrs. Lawrence H. LindenEmily LyonsLarry & Nancy Master

Adirondack Community Trust - Master Family Fund

Keith D. and Linda Monda Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. PacalaWilliam L. Paternotte FamilyMrs. Meredith M. Prime

Adirondack Community Trust - Meredith M. Prime Fund

Prospect Hill FoundationAndrew Rosenthal & Shari LevineJohn & Nancy Rosenthal Mr. David J. SorkinMr. & Mrs. A. Morris

Williams, Jr.

$50,000-$99,999Dr. & Mrs. Michael A. BettmanMr. Paul R. Dooling &

Ms. Sandra DanussiGeneral Electric CompanyFrancisca P. IrwinMr. Edward H. MillerRevs. James & Margaret MillerMr. & Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.

The Boquet Foundation, Inc.

$25,000-$49,999Anonymous (3)Mr. & Mrs. Lynn BirdsongMrs. Frances BlaisdellMichael H. & Elaine F. Brown

$10,000-$24,999Anonymous (2)Carol L. Anderson Marilyn BurnsMr. & Mrs. William B. Chappell, Jr.Rosetta & Matt DeVitoLyn DuMoulinEquinox Foundation, Inc.

Fields Pond FoundationTennally Fortier & Ryan SmithMr. David Goodman &

Ms. Sylvia GolbinJoan R. McAlpin Charitable TrustDr. Joane Molenock &

Dr. Daniel E. KarigDr. & Mrs. Robert O. PreyerMr. & Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt IVMr. Scott ShleiferRichard TredwellSally S. Venerable

$5,000-$9,999Anonymous Alice & Bill BoardmanCharlie & Judy CanhamMr. & Mrs. John E. ColstonCleveland Dodge FoundationMr. & Mrs. J. Matthew Davidson

J.M. Kaplan FundMr. & Mrs. Steven DiMattia

Dutchess Community FoundationExxonMobil Foundation, Inc.FirstGiving, Inc.Mr. John G. Fritzinger, Jr.Dr. Rhoda F. Green &

Mr. Edward M. GreenMs. Karen HsuMr. David P. Hunt Ray & Lola JohnsonKauffman FoundationMr. & Mrs. Bruce LongMr. & Mrs. Serge LussiBill Miller & Ida HonbyMs. Ashley Milne-TyteMr. & Mrs. William MorrillMr. Eddie Mrozik &

Mrs. Nancy Van WieJames & Elaine PetersDr. & Mrs. W. Reid PittsMichael & Veronica RichterMr. Martin L. SagePeter SchramelMr. Jeffrey B. SellonEstate of Michael StevensonMr. & Mrs. Daniel B. Strickler, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. William UghettaMr. & Mrs. Ross WilliamsMr. & Mrs. D. Yanulavich

$1,000-$4,999AnonymousBarbara L. Bedford &

Charles C. GeislerMr. & Mrs. Perry J. BoltonMrs. Joan R. BurchenalMr. Peter W. Collinge &

Ms. Carol A. ThielCorning Incorporated FoundationDr. James L. & Mrs. Dena

DannenbergMr. & Mrs. David DearbornMr. & Mrs. Jeff T. DeWeeseAndrew H. Feinman &

Mary Van HoomissenMr. John C. FitzpatrickMs. Elizabeth Folwell &

Mr. Tom WarringtonMr. & Mrs. Esty FosterMr. Larry FoxMr. & Mrs. Robert E. FriedmanMr. Charles W. HenryMr. Donald HenryMatthew HobartING financial ServicesRichard D. Jarvis

Adirondack Community Trust – Jarvis/Lamy Fund

Mr. & Mrs. Alan JonesDr. & Mrs. Todd R. JorgensenMr. Cliff A. Landesman &

Ms. Shanny PeerJanet LangloisMr. & Mrs. Henri LeclercMr. & Mrs. Les LewisCindy Loudenslager

John & Dorothy Caples FundMr. James Lukenda &

Ms. Maura LockhartMr. & Mrs. Richard MacKinnonMatrix Environmental

Technologies, Inc.McKinsey & Company, Inc.Mr. Robert S. MeyersHeidi NitzeMiss Nancy L. OlsenMr. Alexander & Mrs. Alison

PackardMr. & Mrs. Francisco PedrazaThe Joel Shapiro Foundation, Inc.Dr. John W. Sharpless &

Ms. Janet RutkowskiMr. & Mrs. Michael SormaniMr. Ramsay TanhamMr. Gregory F. ToddTruistMr. James A. Underwood &

Ms. Carol A. FisherMr. & Mrs. Edward Van WoertMr. & Mrs. David T. WarfieldArete & William B. WarrenMr. Gordon Whitten &

Ms. Nicole SargentMs. Mary Jo YunisMr. & Mrs. Daniel Zwelling

Lyn DuMoulin, pictured here paddling with her husband, supports the Heart of the Adirondacks Campaign because there is a finite amount of land on earth and she wants to protect special places for future generations.

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$50,000 and upDr. & Mrs. Robert T. CallearF. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.Mrs. David A. Weir

David and Candace Weir Foundation

$20,000 - $49,999AnonymousMr.& Mrs David L. Henle

The Joan C. & David L. Henle Foundation

Overhills FoundationMs. Lili SchadMr. Jeffrey Sellon

John A. Sellon Charitable Residual Trust

Mr. Joel H. TreismanJoseph & Joan Cullman Conservation Foundation

Connie & Craig WeatherupWright-Cook Foundation

$10,000 - $19,999Anonymous (3)Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Abrahamson

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.Adirondack Community Trust -

Master Family Fund 2Adirondack Community Trust-

Meredith M. Prime FundDr. & Mrs. Michael BettmannMr. & Mrs. John Bogle

John C. Bogle Charitable Lead TrustButler Conservation FundMr. & Mrs. Robert Friedman

General Atlantic LLCJoan & Bill GrabeLyn & Harry GroomeMr. David Pratt HuntMr. & Mrs. Raymond JohnsonNancy Olmsted Kaehr &

Michael G. Kaehr Fund at The San Diego Foundation

Kelsey TrustMr. & Mrs. Jonathan LinenDouglas & Sarah LukeMr. Bruce McLanahan

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Stephanie & Robert M. OlmstedMr. & Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.

Boquet Foundation, Inc. William L. Paternotte FamilyMr. Edward D. PettyDrs. Howard W. & Ora K. Smith

Kingsley FoundationMs. Paige N. SmithCharles & Sally Svenson

$5,000 - $9,999Mr. & Mrs. Carter BalesJameson & Reginald BaxterCarol & John FoxGeneral Electric Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramMr. & Mrs. Ian HighetMr. & Mrs. Edward KonikowskiMr. & Mrs. Serge LussiMr. Michael Mulcahy &

Ms. Susan Terwilliger

Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. PacalaDr. & Mrs. Robert Preyer

Robert O. Preyer Charitable Lead Unitrust

Ellen M. ScholleMs. Margaret J. Smith

Teck FoundationMr. & Mrs. Harry TobiassenRichard TredwellMs. Dorothy C. TreismanWalbridge Fund, Ltd.Mr. & Mrs. Brock Weatherup

Weatherup Family Foundation

$2,500 - $4,999AnonymousMr. Charles H. Bennett &

Ms. Edythe W. RobbinsPhilip & Sarah BogdanovitchCharles & Judy CanhamMr. & Mrs. John E. Colston

John E. Colston Private FoundationJoan K. Davidson

The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.Mr. & Mrs. J. Dennis Delafield

The New York Community TrustExxonMobil CorporationCarolyn & Ed FowlerSarah Winter FrenchJohn G. Fritzinger, Jr.

Adirondack Community TrustLawrence M. Gelb FoundationFrancisca P. IrwinMr. & Mrs. Robert H. Jeffrey IIMr. James Johnson

Mr. Ted C. KennedyMrs. Ann Pfohl KirbyDara & Todd La PorteMr. Arthur L. Loeb

The Arthur Loeb FoundationEdward W. McNeil

McNeil InvestmentsThe MeadWestvaco FoundationReverend & Mrs. James Miller

Fidelity Chartiable Gift FundNorcross Wildlife Foundation, Inc.Mrs. Molly G. RockefellerJohn & Nancy Rosenthal

Meadowhill FundMr. & Mrs. Brian Ruder

The Ayco Charitable FoundationMr. & Mrs. Kenneth Stuzin

W.W. & G.O. Chorske FoundationBaltimore Community Foundation

Ms. Marion M. Thompson, in memory of her son, David Thompson

$1,000 - $2,499Anonymous (4)Mr. & Mrs. Ernest AbrahamsonMr. & Mrs. John AdamsAdirondack Community Trust-Jarvis/

Lamy FundAllen Family Fund

Marin Community FoundationMrs. Ann H. ArmstrongBank of America Matching GiftsMr. & Mrs. Lionel O. BartholdProf. Barbara L. Bedford &

Dr. Charles C. Geisler

Annual Operating Fund{

The annual fund supports the day-to-day work of our capable staff in Keene Valley. We are grateful for every operating gift contributed to the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and the Adirondack Land Trust. The following pages list individuals who donated $100 or more between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. Every gift is important. Please let us know if you spot an error or omission. For a complete list of giving opportunities, contact Nancy Van Wie, 518.576.2082 x139 or nvanwie@tnc.org.

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Mr. & Mrs. Lynn BirdsongMr. Robert H. BlissAlice & Bill BoardmanMr. & Mrs. Kenneth H. Brownell

Evergreen Foundation, Inc.Dr. & Mrs. John BrustMarilyn Burns Fund

Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough Foundation

Mr. Stephen H. Burrington & Ms. Abigail A. Swaine

Mr. & Mrs. George BushMr. Frederick C. CalderMs. Mary Lynne V. Campbell

The Cerf-Dunbar Fund of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region

Mr. & Mrs. Donald CliffordMr. & Mrs. David CuthellThe Margaret A. Darrin FoundationDr. & Mrs. William DeHoffMr. & Mrs. John DillonDr. Thomas P. DoolittleMr. & Mrs. Donald DornMs. Joanne W. DwyerMr. & Mrs. Irvine Flinn

The New York Community TrustMr. & Mrs. Kenneth ForesterMr. & Mrs. Drew Forhan

The Hudson Community FoundationStephen C. FrauenthalMs. Caroline E. Gaynor &

Mr. Herb RuizGeneral Electric Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramMr. & Mrs. Roderic Giltz

Adirondack Community Trust- Port Jackson Fund

Barbara L. GlaserMrs. Alyce Ray GoesslingDr. Rhoda F. Green &

Mr. Edward M. GreenMs. Jessica Griffiths

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundBarbara Matthews Hancock

Mrs. Margaret I. HarbisonDr. & Mrs. William HarbisonMr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Hart, Jr.Ms. Sarah HartMr. & Mrs. Harold Hawkey

Harweb FoundationMrs. Daphne E. Hallowell

Headlands FarmMrs. Amy D. Heintz

Heintz Family TrustMr. & Mrs. Edward HoffmanMs. Sarah L. HollandMr. & Mrs. Samuel HoopesMr. & Mrs. John Hubbard, Jr.

The John C. & Susan K. Hubbard Foundation

Dr. & Mrs. Keith JohnsonThe Keith & Nancy Johnson Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Alan JonesMr. & Mrs. J. David JoorDr. & Mrs. Todd JorgensenMr. & Mrs. Thomas KalarisMr. & Mrs. Peter Kellogg

Kirk & Megan Kellogg FoundatioinDr. & Mrs. Robert KendallDr. Howard Kirschenbaum &

Ms. Mary RappMr. & Mrs. Howard LinkeDr. & Mrs. Robert LockeMr. & Mrs. Stuart LucksThe Lyme Timber Company, NHMr. & Mrs. Theodore MackMr. & Mrs. Richard MallochMr. & Mrs. John MarrellaMr. Merle D. MelvinSam Scott MillerMs. Adelia Moore &

Mr. Thomas R. GeretyMr. & Mrs. James T. Morley

St. Huberts Foundation TrustMr. & Mrs. J. Richard MunroDr. Robert J. PattersonPutnam Investments Matching

Gift Program

Mr. & Mrs. Justice ReedF.G.K. Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Charles RitchieStaritch Foundation, Inc.

Ted & Minney RobbMrs. Irene L. SchmittMimi Seagears

The Seagears Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. Norman SheerMr. & Mrs. Roger SmithMr. Chandler SteinDr. David D. StoneMr. & Mrs. Daniel StricklerMr. & Mrs. Enos ThroopPaul F. Torrence & Bonnie JohnsonMr. & Mrs. William UghettaMs. Amy L. Vedder &

Mr. Bill WeberSally S. VenerableHelene P. VictorMr. & Mrs. Peter WalkerMrs. Georgia E. WellesMr. & Mrs. Charles WestDr. Gregory J. WhiffenMr. Donald P. WichmanMr. & Mrs. Barrie A. Wigmore

The Barrie A. & Deedee Wigmore Foundation

Philip & Tricia WintererMr. & Mrs. David WolffMr. & Mrs. Frederick WonhamMr. & Mrs. Cecil Wray

Adirondack Community Trust

$500 - $999AnonymousAnonymous In Memory of Bernell

H. & Marjorie J. GilbertAdirondack Community Trust-

Kelly R. Huiatt FundAdirondack Community Trust-

The Mirror Lake Inn Charitable FundMr. & Mrs. Robert AndrewsMrs. Sue ArmstrongDr. Duffield Ashmead IV

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy BarnettMr. & Mrs. Hans BirleMrs. Frances BlaisdellVictoria & Wilber H. BoiesMr. & Mrs. Perry J. BoltonDavid K. Broadwell, M.D. &

Ms. Christine R. WilmotMr. Marcus F. BrownMr. W. Dean BrownMr. & Mrs. J. Martin Carovano

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Chappell, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Howard CohenMr. & Mrs. Aims ConeyMr. Raymond P. Curran &

Ms. Kathleen DaggettMr. & Mrs. Curtis CushmanDCP Midstream MGPPhilip & Lenore DeflieseMr. Paul R. Dooling &

Ms. Sandra DanussiVanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Dr. & Mrs. E. Linn Draper, Jr.Mr. Gary Dreiblatt &

Ms. Nancy B. SinkoffFJC

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas FarrellAndrew H. Feinman &

Mary Van HoomissenAlfred & Harriet Feinman Foundation

Mr. Andrew G. FrankMs. Wendy Fuller-Mora &

Mr. Jeffrey G. MoraMr. & Mrs. Clinton Furnald

Mary & Christopher Rodgers FoundationMr. & Mrs. Ronald GehlMr. & Mrs. Robert Gianniny

Rochester Area Community FoundationMr. & Mrs. Walter GilgesMr. & Mrs. Robert GlennonMr. & Mrs. David GosdaGreenwich Investment

Management

Trail camera, Boreas Pond tract, August, 2011

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Dr. Clyde C. GriffenMr. & Mrs. Harry Groome, IV

National Philanthropic TrustMrs. Mary S. HamiltonDr. & Mrs. William HarbisonMr. H. Gerald HareMr. & Mrs. Walter HartmannMr. & Mrs. David HeiderMs. Dorothy M. HorneMr. & Mrs. Michael JamesWilliam & Mary Janeway

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundMrs. Jocelyn R. JerryMr. & Mrs. Pliny JewellMr. & Mrs. Charles JohnsonMrs. Elaine E. JoostMr. & Mrs. Robert Kafin

Kevin & Betty Ann KeaneVanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Mr. & Mrs. Alexander KeelerKeeler Motor Car Company

Mrs. Janet C. KirekerMs. Kathleen C. Larzelere

Frederick & Patricia Supper Foundation, Inc.

Mr. & Mrs. Richard LempertDr. & Mrs. Robert LewitMr. & Mrs. George Lockhart

Schwab Charitable FundDaniel & Carol LuthringshauserDr. Ian & Rebecca MacKellarMr. & Mrs. George Mallett

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Dr. & Mrs. Woods McCahillAdirondack Community Trust

Mr. & Mrs. W. Scott McGrawMr. & Mrs. Jay McGrawMr. Bill McKibben &

Ms. Sue HalpernMs. Elizabeth S. McLanahanMrs. Annette Merle-Smith

The Lookout FundMr. & Mrs. Gerrish MillikenMr. & Mrs. Philip MoldenhauerMs. Carol J. PinneyMrs. Sonja C. PoeDr. & Mrs. Mark Pohlman

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundMs. Katharine M. Preston &

Mr. John BinghamMr. Edward PrinceMr. W. Alec ReidMr. & Mrs. John ReschovskyMr. & Mrs. Robert RingleeProf. Nicholas A. RobinsonMr. & Mrs. Arthur SavageDr. John W. Sharpless &

Ms. Janet RutkowskiMs. Suzanne SinerMr. & Mrs. Stephen SpongbergTed Stork & Mary BarrieMr. & Mrs. Thompson SwayneMr. & Mrs. Fairman ThompsonMr. & Mrs. Garry TrudeauMs. Chase TwichellMr. & Mrs. David TwichellMs. Anne H. Van Ingen &

Mr. Wesley HaynesMs. Mary Van Vleck

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundMr. & Mrs. Wayne VirklerMr. & Mrs. James ViscontiMrs. Jeanne B. WalshDr. & Mrs. Peter WhiteMs. Jean Kim WilsonMr. & Mrs. Robert Worth

New York Community TrustMr. & Mrs. Andrej Zajac

$100 - $499Anonymous (4)Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth AdamsAdirondack Community Trust-

Alethe and Frank Lescinsky Pass-Through Fund

Adirondack Forty-Sixers, Inc.Adirondack Mountain Club -

Albany ChapterAdirondack Mountain Club -

Glen Falls Saratoga ChapterAdirondack Mountain Club -

Lake Placid ChapterAecom Technology CorporationMr. Norman AltstedterMr. & Mrs. Woodbury AndrewsMr. Nathan R. AndrewsMr. & Mrs. Philip ArthurMr. & Mrs. Larry AthensMr. & Mrs. Brian BaderMr. Jeremy D. Baker

The Ruth & Louis Baker Family Foundation

Mrs. Jane M. BakerDr. & Mrs. John BakerMr. Robert P. BallMr. Joseph A. BarbieriDr. & Mrs. Clyde BarkerMr. Robert M. Barnett &

Ms. Susan R. MandlerMr. Richard J. BartlettMr. & Mrs. Edward BeachMr. Richard Beamish &

Ms. Rachel K. RiceMr. & Mrs. David BeldenMr. & Mrs. Paul BellDr. & Mrs. Richard BennettMs. Ethel BernardMr. William BernerMs. Nancy A. BernsteinMr. & Mrs. John BessetteMr. & Mrs. Elwin BigelowMr. & Mrs. Arthur BissellDr. & Mrs. Howard BlackKatharine S. Beale & Robert F. Boehm

FINANCIAL SuMMARY FISCAL YEAR 2011

Annual giving again reached record levels following a strong fiscal year 2010. Donors contributed $1,094,027 to our Keene Valley operations, which pays for our capable staff team to advance our on-the-ground conservation efforts including scientific research, preserve management, stew-ardship, invasive species rapid response and more. Gifts to operations also enable us to keep our donors informed and to raise private contributions paramount to our success. Cash gifts to capital projects for fiscal year 2011 totaled $2,231,025. We are deeply grateful for every donation.

The Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and the Adirondack Land Trust faced some important chal-lenges in fiscal year 2011, largely because of the need to bend every effort to raise money for Heart of the Adirondacks and to allocate the greatest possible resources to helping close out our $35 million private fundraising campaign by December 1, 2011. We were able to balance our budget through greater than expected annual giving and through the deployment of reserves built up in previous years that now support the continued great work of the chapter.

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Mr. & Mrs. Donald BoguckiMrs. Lynn H. Boillot

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundMr. & Mrs. Robert BoothMr. & Mrs. William BoyceMr. & Mrs. Robert BradburyMr. Peter W. BragdonMs. Catherine A. BrennanDr. & Mrs. John BrennanMrs. Karla G. BrieantMr. & Mrs. Jack BroeilsMr. & Mrs. Douglas BrooksMr. & Mrs. Jere BrophyMs. Alice F. Brown &

Mr. Andrew R. McClellanDr. & Mrs. John BrownMr. & Mrs. Thomas BrownMr. & Mrs. William BrownMr. & Mrs. Mark BrunsDr. & Mrs. James BudnyMs. Mary A. Buehler-BrandtMr. & Mrs. Howard BullardMr. & Mrs. Caleb BurchenalMr. & Mrs. Peter BurkMr. & Mrs. Dean ButtsMrs. Patricia A. CalascibettMr. & Mrs. William CalderMr. & Mrs. Charles CammackMr. William S. CarbineMr. & Mrs. Bernard CarmanMr. & Mrs. John CarpenterMrs. Joan M. CarrMr. Robert E. CarterMs. Diane CastMr. & Mrs. Bruce CatlinMr. & Mrs. C. Richard CatlinMr. & Mrs. Andrew ChalnickMr. John Chamberlain &

Ms. Barbara A. BrosnanMrs. Lilian S. L. ChanceMs. Cynthia L. ChandlerDr. & Mrs. Glen ChapmanMr. Walter M. ChapmanMr. & Mrs. Robert ChaseMrs. Sally H. Childs

Mrs. Joan A. ClarkMs. Dorothy L. ClausenDick & Tilly CloseMr. William C. CloseMr. & Mrs. David CoffinMr. & Mrs. Richard CohenMr. Herbert J. Coles & Ms. June Fait

Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

Mr. Peter W. Collinge & Ms. Carol A. Thiel

T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving

Mr. & Mrs. Thad CollumMr. Ted E. Colwell, Sr.Mr. & Mrs. Robert ConleyMr. & Mrs. Bernard F. Conners

The Bernard F. Conners FoundationMr. & Mrs. Tom ConnorsMr. Anthony ConsoliMs. Sally Conyne & Dr. Frank B. GillMr. & Mrs. Kenneth CooperCoreys Residents AssociationMr. & Mrs. James CraneMs. Jeannie H. Cross &

Mr. Thomas WoodmanMr. Arthur F. Crotty &

Ms. Patricia PalmateerMr. Richard CunninghamMrs. Edgar A. C. CurranMr. & Mrs. David CurtisMrs. Jean B. CushmanMr. Timothy DannenhofferMr. Joseph D. DaviesMr. & Mrs. George DavisDr. & Mrs. James C. DawsonMr. Donald T. Day

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundDr. & Mrs. C. De ArmasMr. & Mrs. David DearbornMs. Janet P. DeckerDr. & Mrs. Lee DeCosterMr. & Mrs. Robert DedrickMr. Richard J. Deneale

Willsboro Pharmacy, Inc.

adirondack Chapter Trustee Mike Richter this spring was among the celebrity guests at a benefit sponsored by The Nature Conservancy’s Young Professionals Group in New York City. Carol Fox, also a chapter trustee, and her husband, John,

were among the event’s host committee members. “Wild At Heart—Cooking Up a Sustainable Life” was

held in March at Tribeca Rooftop, celebrating food and conservation and helping to support the Conservancy’s epic Heart of the Adirondacks project.

The evening featured local, sustainable dishes prepared by some of New York City’s leading culinary innovators, including Jonathan Waxman, Barbuto chef and author of A Great American Cook; Joey Campanaro, chef and own-er of the Little Owl and Market Table, and winner of the 2011 Bon Appetit “Master Chef Classic”; Jimmy Bradley, chef and owner of neighborhood favorites The Red Cat and The Harrison, and author of The Red Cat Cookbook, and Jason Giagrande , FLIK’s Director of Food Service Operations and Events at NBCUniversal.

Nearly 400 guests savored delectable dishes from a selec-tion of tasting stations while enjoying music from the Back Porch Society. Video panels flashed gorgeous Adirondack scenery and iconic wildlife images. Our chapter is grate-ful to the Young Professionals Group for hosting such a wonderful event to benefit a globally-significant forest and freshwater conservation effort in the Adirondacks.

Learn more about the Young Professionals Group on the Web: nature.org/ypg.

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Mr. & Mrs. John DennyMr. John E. Dewar &

Ms. Sandra A. McCloyMr. & Mrs. Gerald DickerhoofMr. Donald C. DickinsonNatalie DiMattiaMr. Perry W. Dimmick &

Ms. Lindsay D. RuthThe Community Foundation

Mr. Michael G. DinunzioMr. & Mrs. Mark DollardMr. & Mrs. Joseph DonohueMs. Nancy A. DouglasMr. Michael P. DouglassMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey DoyleMs. Frances L. DriscollMs. Margaret DrobnikMs. Gloria A. DruckerMr. & Mrs. Peter DunhamMr. & Mrs. James DuranteMr. & Mrs. George EhingerMr. Richard F. EisenbergMr. & Mrs. Michael ElitzerMr. & Mrs. Thomas ElkintonJoanne ElliottMr. John L. EngelMr. & Mrs. Mark EpsteinMs. Denise M. Erickson &

Mr. James T. BarkDr. & Mrs. Michael EspositoMr. Michael P. Esposito, Jr.Essex County Adirondack

Garden ClubMr. & Mrs. Peter EstusMrs. Nancy EustanceMr. John J. EvansMrs. Yvonne C. FarmerDr. Jay S. Federman &

Dr. Dorothy FedermanMs. Margo L. FennMr. & Mrs. Frederick FindlayMr. & Mrs. William FischetteMr. & Mrs. David FisherSam Fisk & Linda CoeMr. David K. Ford

Fort Orange Garden ClubMr. & Mrs. James FosburghMr. & Mrs. Robert FraserMr. & Mrs. Keith FredlundMr. John P. Freeman &

Ms. Tillie HelmsMr. J. R. FriedmanMr. Max FriedmanMs. Sally FriedmanMr. & Mrs. Timothy FritzingerDr. & Mrs. John FulcoMr. John E. FullerMr. & Mrs. Matthew FunchionMr. & Mrs. David FurmanMr. & Mrs. Robert GardnerMr. & Mrs. Robert GarverMs. Gail M. GaskinGeneral Electric Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramMr. & Mrs. Rocco GiampaoloMr. & Mrs. Randall GiltzMr. Norman J. GinstlingMr. & Mrs. George GiokasMr. & Mrs. Morris GlennMs. Megan C. GlennonMrs. Norma W. GoffMr. & Mrs. Victor GoldMrs. Ann L. GoldsmithMr. & Mrs. Neil Golub

Golub Family Foundation, Inc.Bob & Marge GoodwinMr. Charles P. Gosselink &

Rev. Charlotte G. GosselinkMs. Emilie W. GouldMr. Jim Gould

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundMs. Miriam B. Goulding &

Mr. Wallace O. WestfeldtMs. Alyse R. GreenbergMrs. Elizabeth B. GriffithsMr. & Mrs. Paul Growald

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundRalph & Georgia GuentherGull Pond Property Owners

Association

Property Donated to Conservancy}

In March Blue Wolf Capital Fund II, L.P. (“Blue Wolf”), the New York-based private equity fund, donated a surplus property in Rockford, Illinois, to The Nature Conservancy. A former in-dustrial laundry facility with an approximate value of $500,000, the property will be sold by the Conservancy and, ultimately, transformed into a cash donation from Blue Wolf toward our “Heart of the Adirondacks” campaign.

Blue Wolf and the Conservancy first worked together in 2007, when we purchased 161,000 acres of Adirondack forestland from Finch Paper Holdings LLC, a Blue Wolf portfolio company.

“We are delighted to further our relationship with The Nature Conservancy and support their important work through this donation,” said Adam Blumenthal, Managing Partner of Blue Wolf. “With this gift, we found a creative and beneficial home for a property that did not fit with our investment thesis and we could no longer use.”

“The Conservancy thanks Blue Wolf for their creative gift, the first donation of industrial property in six years,” said Bill Ulfelder, New York State Director of The Nature Conservancy. “The firm’s ability to think outside of the box will be a tremen-dous help in supporting our Heart of the Adirondacks campaign.”

The Nature Conservancy’s “Trade Lands” program facilitated this generous gift. Since its inception in 1981, the program has received over $300 million worth of real estate gifts, ranging from single family residences to apartment houses to industrial buildings. Our chapter has benefitted from several trade land gifts over the years made expressly to support Adirondack con-servation work.

Contact Matt Hobart in our Keene Valley office for informa-tion about trade lands: mhobart@tnc.org or 518.576.2082

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Mr. & Mrs. Jerrier HaddadMr. & Mrs. Edward HailMr. & Mrs. Steven HalaszMr. & Mrs. Edward HaleMs. Wendy B. HallDr. & Mrs. William HamiltonMs. Nancy L. Hammond &

Ms. Olivia A. IsilThe Hanney FamilyThe Honorable Dorcas Hardy

Dorcas R. Hardy & AssociatesMr. & Mrs. Edward HarrisMr. Walter F. Harrison IIIDr. & Mrs. Howard R. Hart, Jr.Mrs. Polly P. HartMr. & Mrs. Ronald HartsockMr. & Mrs. Richard HarveyMs. Marguerite H. V. HasbrouckMrs. Barbara K. HassHawkeye ConservationistsMr. Gary W. HayfordMr. & Mrs. Robert HaymerDr. & Mrs. Robert HeinemanMr. Huyler C. HeldMs. Margery C. HennemanMs. Barbara L. HennigMrs. Jean V. S. HenryMr. John P. HeslopMrs. Mary Page HickeyMr. Hans P. Himelein &

Ms. Janice C. KyleMr. & Mrs. Robert HindmanMrs. Martha F. HoarMr. & Mrs. Thomas HobbsEdward A. Hogan, Esq.Mr. Rush D. Holt &

Ms. Margaret L. LancefieldMr. Richard Hooker IIIMr. & Mrs. John HopkinsonMr. & Mrs. Brian HousealIn memory of J. Scott HowardMr. & Mrs. Kenneth HoytMr. & Mrs. F. David HuddaMr. Andrew G. HudnutDr. & Mrs. Herbert Hudnut

Vivian Leith & Stewart S. HudnutMr. & Mrs. Kenneth HunkinsMs. Susan L. HunsdonMr. & Mrs. William HutchensMs. Deborah S. HutchingsImmaculate Conception ChurchMr. & Mrs. Charles IroseMr. & Mrs. Richard IrwinMrs. Carol JackmanMr. & Mrs. Paul JacksonMr. & Mrs. Garry JewettMr. Edward A. JohnsonMs. Deanna K. JohnstonMr. Wayne A. Johnston

Ruthie’s RunMr. William S. Joplin &

Ms. Mary A. BellMs. Betty J. Jordan &

Mr. Michael LukeMr. & Mrs. David JordanDr. & Mrs. Eugene KaczkaMr. & Mrs. David KaiserMr. & Mrs. Ferdinand KaiserMr. John KapcioMr. Kevin A. Karl &

Ms. Katherine SteffensMr. & Mrs. Steven KelloggMr. John E. KelschMr. & Mrs. Harvey KelseyMr. Todd O. Kempainen &

Ms. Jorun Gran-HendriksenMr. & Mrs. Richard KepesMr. & Mrs. Douglas KerrMs. Jean M. Keskulla &

Mr. George H. StalkerMr. Raymond A. KetchledgeMr. & Mrs. Jefferson KirbyMr. Jeremiah KirwanDr. & Mrs. Jack KolffMs. Rose Anna KottlerMr. Jesse L. KrasnowMs. Gwenllian L. KrauseMs. Ruth M. KuhfahlMr. Stephen J. Kulyik &

Ms. Barbara Bergmann

VolunteersIn addition to the hundreds of

Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program volunteers, we extend a heartfelt thanks

to the following individuals for contributing their valuable time and talent to our

conservation efforts between September 1, 2010

and September 30, 2011.

ADIRoNDACK HERo/VoLuNtEER oF tHE YEAR

Dave Perkins, NYS Snowmobile Association

FIELD tRIP LEADERS AND EVENt SPEAKERS

Ray CurranEdgley Family/Edgley Farms

Julia Goren Susan Hopkins

Gary LincoffBill Localio

Melanie McCormackPhil Terrie

NAtuRE PRESERVE ADoPtERS

Duncan Cutter, Everton FallsJohn Davis, Coon Mountain

Melissa Gowett, Clintonville Pine BarrensEvelyn Greene, Hudson River Ice Meadows

Wes Lampman, Silver Lake BogBill LaRocque, Spring Pond Bog

Ted Meskunas, Gadway Sandstone Pavement Barrens

Elizabeth Rogers, Silver Lake BogJim Visconti, Silver Lake Bog

SPECIAL EVENtS AND PRoJECtS

Karen CulpepperMelissa Eisinger, Adirondack Community Trust

Steve & Wendy Hall, Adirondack Wildlife RefugeRon Konowitz

Bill LocalioLarry MasterMatt Medler

Peter S Paine, Jr.

SuMMIt StEWARDSHIP

Carrie ClendanielEthan CollinsIan EllbogenSeth Jones

Frank KruegerDavid WarfieldKathleen WileyBrendan Wiltse

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Mr. & Mrs. Francis KvidahlMr. Joe N. LacyMrs. Antonia B. LairdMr. & Mrs. George LambMrs. Judith A. LandesMs. Stephanie G. LandisDr. & Mrs. Douglas LangdonJanet LangloisMr. Wesley E. LanyonMr. & Mrs. Byron LaphamLeona Laskin, M.D.Ms. Anne Adams LaumontMr. & Mrs. Daniel LeavellDr. & Mrs. John LeddyColette LetteroMr. Richard Levy, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Albert LewisMr. John E. Linck &

Ms. Ann T. CsinkMr. & Mrs. Kenneth LintonMr. & Mrs. David LloydMr. James N. LloydMrs. Marilyn R. LoebMr. Richard W. LongstrethMr. & Mrs. Martin LonowMr. & Mrs. Kenneth LoveleeMr. & Mrs. Arthur LussiMr. & Mrs. John MacionisDr. & Mrs. James MacWhinneyMr. & Mrs. John MadiganMrs. Michelle C. MaggsMr. Glenn W. MagnellDr. & Mrs. David Mandelbaum

FJCMr. & Mrs. Joseph MaraMarli Manufacturing, Co.Marli Manufacturing CompanyMr. Roger Marshall &

Ms. Barbara SmorgansMr. Paul R. Martin

Keene Valley Stove Co.Mr. Edward C. MarxMr. & Mrs. Dwight MasonMr. Edward E. MatthewsMr. & Mrs. Gregory Matthews

Mr. Albert MazloomMr. & Mrs. Vincent McClellandDr. Charles W. McCutchenMs. Marilyn S. McDonaldMr. & Mrs. Charles McDuffieMr. & Mrs. Christopher McFaddenMr. & Mrs. John McGarrahanCarol & Richard McKeeverMr. & Mrs. Robert McKinneyDr. & Mrs. Neal McNabbMr. Mark A. McNaughtMr. & Mrs. Donald MeachamMr. David J. MeekerMr. & Mrs. George MerrillMr. Keith W. MerrillMr. & Mrs. Raymond MeslarBill & Ann MesnardMr. Robert MeyersMrs. Constance A. MillerMr. & Mrs. Richard MillerMr. & Mrs. Sidney MillerDr. & Mrs. Charles MitchellMs. Susan J. MitchellDonald T. & Marjory B. MoellerMr. & Mrs. Bruce MoffattMrs. Anita P. MontgomeryDr. & Mrs. John MoravekMrs. Ruth I. Morton

Rochester Area Community FoundationMr. Dale H. MurtlowDr. Frederick MuschenheimCarl K. Needy, M.D.Mr. David A. NemzerMr. & Mrs. Norman NewhallMr. & Mrs. Gary NordmannMr. W. Kemp Norman, Jr.Ms. Cerise G. Oberman &

Mr. Laurence E. SurokaMr. & Mrs. Bengt OhmanMr. & Mrs. Edward OlesMr. & Mrs. John OmohundroMs. Kathleen O’NeillMrs. Jacqueline J. OrmerodMr. & Mrs. David OxleyMr. & Mrs. George Packard

Ms. Roberta A. ParryMr. & Mrs. Anthony PellMr. & Mrs. John PerkinsMr. Mark D. PerreaultMr. Sven R. PetersonMr. & Mrs. Donald PetroMr. & Mrs. Glen PhillipsMr. & Mrs. Robert PierceMr. Edward I. Pitts &

Ms. Meredith LeonardMr. Eric W. PohlmanMr. & Mrs. Stewart PoolMs. Carol T. PottertonMr. Roger S. Pratt

The Waldheim, Inc.Mr. L. Shawn PresleyDr. & Mrs. Stephen PriceMr. & Mrs. Alfred PutnamMrs. Olivia RaffeDr. Don W. RainMr. David RakovMrs. Penelope D. RandolphMr. James M. RauchMs. Sandra L. Read &

Mr. Paul ParkerMr. & Mrs. Clayton ReaserDr. James R. ReganMrs. Elizabeth A. ReidMr. Arthur ReidelMr. Jay ReisingerDr. & Mrs. Edward ReiterRev. Peter R. RianiMr. & Mrs. Norman RichterMr. John F. RiebesellMs. Susan S. RigginsMr. & Mrs. Thomas RileyMr. & Mrs. William RobertsMr. & Mrs. Andy RobertsonMr. & Mrs. William RochowMr. & Mrs. Frederic RockefellerMr. & Mrs. Lawrence RogersMr. & Mrs. Richard RoglerMr. & Mrs. Frank RoseMr. Richard A. Rosen &

Ms. Barbara Gordon

Mr. & Mrs. Lewis RosenbergMr. James B. RosettiMr. & Mrs. J. RumboughDr. & Mrs. Richard RyderDr. Gloria W. Sage &

Dr. Martin L. SageMr. Richard I. SalwitzMs. Rebecca SaundersMs. Peggy Savage &

Mr. Kenneth C. BrownellPeter & Anita SayerBen & Barbara SchafferMrs. Denise ScheinbergBill & Kathy SchnurMr. James A. SchoffMs. Margaret R. SchutzeMrs. Alice W. SchwarzMr. & Mrs. Charles SchwarzDr. & Mrs. Kendrick SearsMr. & Mrs. G. Thomas Selfridge

Albany Valve & Fitting Co.Mr. & Mrs. William SerafinMs. Carolyn M. SerotaMr. & Mrs. Carl SheddRobert H. SheltonDr. Jeffrey ShermanMr. & Mrs. Harold ShippeyDr. Frank C. ShirleyMr. & Mrs. Henry SidfordMrs. Joan S. SiedenburgMs. Barbara A. SilberMr. Steven D. SingerMr. Stephen SkinnerMr. & Mrs. Judson SmithMr. & Mrs. Kemp SmithMr. & Mrs. Normand F. SmithMr. & Mrs. Timothy SmithMr. & Mrs. Michael SormaniMr. & Mrs. James SpeerDr. & Mrs. Harold SpeertDr. Betty C. SpenceMr. & Mrs. Robert SpencerMr. John D. SproulMs. Natalie L. StarrMr. Paul V. Stearns

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in the non-profit business, it is a great honor to be the recipient of a bequest. The gesture alone speaks volumes about a donor’s commitment to cause and faith in the organization’s

ability to carry out meaning-ful work. The Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Con-servancy and the Adirondack Land Trust are deeply honored to have each been bequeathed a portion of the estate of J. Dudley Moylan.

J. Dudley Moylan, remem-bered as a conservationist, as well as an advocate for social causes, was born in Albany, New York, in 1921, but grew -up in Miami Florida before eventually settling in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. His lifelong

bond to the Adirondack Park stems from spending time in New Russia, at his family’s Underwood Club retreat. In fact, Dudley spent time in the Adirondacks every sin-gle year up to the summer of 2007, with the only excep-tion being the WWII years, when he worked as a radar officer on a naval destroyer. (His harrowing experience surviving the Battle of Leyte Gulf by clinging to a life raft in shark-infested waters for nearly 50 hours is chronicled in the book, “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.”)

A supporter of the Conservancy and Land Trust since 1980, Dudley first began to explore the option of con-tinuing his financial support through a planned gift back in 2003, turning the idea into a commitment in his will some years later. It was important to Dudley that 100% of his gift would be used to advance conservation in the Adirondacks to honor his love of place and the personal relationships he developed with the Conservancy and Land Trust staff in Keene Valley.

Dudley’s generosity was realized in 2011 after his death at the age of 88 on Christmas Day in 2010. While he and his world-class smile are greatly missed, Dudley’s foresight and commitment to the Adirondacks, expressed through his planned gift, inspire our efforts daily.

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Mr. & Mrs. Donald SternDr. & Mrs. Neil StewartMr. & Mrs. Curtis StilesMs. Susan F. StoddartMs. Suzanne StoneMr. Richard A. Stoner &

Ms. Theresa HylandMr. Richard M. StreanKenneth A. & Joanne M. StrikeMr. & Mrs. Robert StrongMr. Randall W. SwansonDr. Jo Betty Swerdlow &

Mr. Harry D. SommerMr. & Mrs. Arthur TaskerMs. Abby P. TaylorMs. M. Kathryn Taylor &

Mr. Jonathan H. SprogellMr. & Mrs. L. Pierre TeillonMr. Philip G. TerrieFrank & Nancy TetzMr. & Mrs. Edmund ThayerMr. & Mrs. David Thomas-TrainMr. & Mrs. Edward ThorndikeMr. & Mrs. Julian ThorpeMr. & Mrs. Samuel TiltonTimberlock, Inc.Mr. & Mrs. James TownsendMr. & Mrs. Donald TraverMr. & Mrs. Frank TrendellMr. Michael B. Trister &

Ms. Nancy D. CampbellWendy TuckerMr. & Mrs. Colin TuggleMr. Paul M. TurnerMr. Michael E. TylerMs. Barbara J. UllrichMr. & Mrs. Robert UnderhillMr. & Mrs. Peter Van De WaterMr. Bruce D. Van Dusen &

Ms. Susan M. WhitingMr. & Mrs. James Van HovenMr. & Mrs. Nick VanderwallDr. & Mrs. Edward VastolaVerisk Analytics Matching Gift

Program

Mr. Todd K. VickeryMr. & Mrs. James ViscontiMs. Dorothy B. VoorhisMs. Barbara S. VosburghMr. & Mrs. William WagnerMs. Meredith L. WaheedMr. Harold A. WalterMr. Scott H. Walter &

Ms. Sarah E. CatronMr. Anthony J. WaltonJohn & Penny WebsterMr. & Mrs. Carl WegnerMr. & Mrs. Robert WeiMs. Mary A. WeiglhoferMr. & Mrs. David WeisenfeldMr. & Mrs. Nathaniel WellsMr. & Mrs. Donald WesternMr. & Mrs. Robert WhitakerMs. Betsy WhitlockMr. & Mrs. Theodore S. WickershamMs. Rachel A. WienerMr. & Mrs. John WilliamsonMr. & Mrs. Thomas WillisMr. Douglas J. WilsonMs. Nancy A. WilsonMr. & Mrs. Robert WinchesterAnne & Ethan WinterBreck & Julie Turner

With Pipe and BookMr. Albert E. Wood IIIMrs. Ellen J. WoodTwink & Jim Wood

The Braewold FundMr. & Mrs. Mark WoodMelody WrightMr. F. Anthony Zunino III

In Honor of:Ms. Louisa E. Archer-Fuller Mr. Jamie Clochenko &

Ms. Rachel MorganMs. Grace DiMattia Ms. Elizabeth ElkintonMrs. Carol FoxMr. Robert C. Glennon

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Partners in ConservationThe Nature Conservancy is a leading international non-profit organization working to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. Since 1971, the Adirondack Chapter has been working with a variety of partners to achieve a broad range of conservation results. The Chapter is a founding partner of the High Peaks Summit Stewardship Program, dedicated to the protection of alpine habitat, as well as the award-winning Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program, which works regionally to prevent the introduction and spread of non-native invasive plants.

The Adirondack Land Trust, established in 1984, protects working farms and forests, undeveloped shoreline, scenic vistas and other lands contributing to the quality of life in the Adirondacks.

Together, these partners in Adirondack conservation have protected more than 571,000 acres, one out of every six protected acres park-wide. on the Web at www.nature.org/adirondacks.

Mrs. Francisca P. IrwinJames & Nancy MacWhinneyDr. James B. MacWhinneyMr. Robert M. OlmstedMs. Margaret RosePeggy Savage & Ken BrownellMs. Carolyn A. SprogellMs. Jennifer Van Denbergh

In Memory of:Mr. J. T. Terry Brune Adele R. Burr Bernard L. ClausenMr. Edgar A. Curran Mrs. Dorothy F. DaleMr. Arthur H. EbelingMr. Steven M. FlintMrs. Gladys FullerTaras GalanBernell H. & Marjorie J. GilbertMrs. Sally D. GriffenMr. Iredell W. IglehartDr. Edwin H. KetchledgeMrs. Vernia H. LanyonMr. Meyer LaskinMr. Gary O’Rourke

Mrs. Patricia M. PattersonMr. Clarence PettyMr. Michael Smith Ms. Claire StratfordMr. Fay W. Welch &

Mrs. Frances Welch

Gifts in KindBill & Alice BoardmanFinch PaperBrian LoweJon Zander Photography

Realized GiftsWe are inspired by the generosity and foresight of friends whose estate planning has resulted in meaningful contributions over the past year:

Anonymous (2)A.Edward Blackmar, M.D.Stephanie D. Bugden

Charles H. Douglas TrustMr. Josiah H. FisherMiss Cynthia LeffertsMrs. Sarah S. Moench

Mr. J. Dudley MoylanDr. Francis B. RosevearMs. Carol Houck Smith

The George V. & Jane A. Smith Charitable Trust

Miss Amy P. UpjohnMs. Linda K. Vaughan

NotificationsThe following friends notified us in fiscal year 2011 that they have made planned gifts for the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and/or the Adirondack Land Trust:

AnonymousProf. Barbara L. BedfordWendell & Ruth BiermannLyn DuMoulinMrs. Sally B. LightyDouglas & Sarah LukeRev. David J. MillerKeith PartykaChristy B. SniderHenrietta K. TrappConnie & Craig Weatherup

If we have inadvertently omitted your name or if you are interested in learning more about planned giving opportunities please contact Matthew Hobart at 518.576.2082 x134 or e-mail mhobart@tnc.org.

Event HostsSeptember 2010

through August 2011

We extend a heartfelt thanks to the following friends for hosting an event to benefit our conservation efforts.

Joan & Bill GrabeDavid P. Hunt

Annette Merle-Smith

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tim Barnett, Vice President

Cathy Beaton, Major Gifts Manager

Michelle Brown, Conservation Scientist

Dirk Bryant, Director of Conservation Programs

Michael Carr, Executive Director

Craig Cheeseman, GIS Specialist/Information Systems Manager

Angie Cook, Philanthropy Coordinator

todd Dunham, Director of Land Protection

Erika Edgley, Stewardship Coordinator

Ryan Ferebee, Maintenance Mechanic

Matthew Hobart, Associate Director of Philanthropy

Meghan Johnstone, Aquatic Invasive Species Project Coordinator

tom Lake, Follensby Pond Caretaker

Jan Maria Localio, Conservation Information Coordinator/Champlain Valley Land Steward

Douglass Munro, Stewardship Programs Coordinator

Sandy Murphy, Financial Analyst

Dawn ormsby, Office Manager

Connie Prickett, Director of Communications

Brendan Quirion, Terrestrial Invasive Species Coordinator

Alissa Rafferty, Science Technician

Hilary Smith, Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program Director

Nancy Van Wie, Director of Philanthropy

Erin V. Walkow, Donor Relations Manager

Your Team in the Adirondacks

SUMMER INTERNS

Dan Dohman, Adirondack Conservation Intern

STAFFING NEWS

Matthew Hobart, who recently earned a Mas-ters of Professional Studies from Cornell University, joined the staff in July.

Meghan Johnstone, a SUNY ESF graduate and former intern, joined the APIPP team in September.

Nancy Van Wie this year earned her Certified Fund Raising Executive credentials.

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PhOTOgRAPhy cREdiTs (left to right unless otherwise noted). Inside cover: Carl Heilman II (OK Slip Falls, a place to look forward to visiting in the future); fold out left page (clockwise starting with photographer) TNC, Mark Godfrey/ TNC, Melody Thomas, Mark Godfrey/TNC, C. Prickett, Brian Lowe, Nancy Battaglia (fly fishing), (column of three, top to bot-tom) C. Prickett/TNC (all); fold out center map Craig Cheeseman; pg 2 provided by trustee or taken by Jon Zander; pg 3 Jon Zander; pg 4 Alissa Rafferty/TNC; pg 5 TNC (both); pg 6 - 7 APIPP; pg 8 Erika Edgley/ALT; pg 10 TNC archives, courtesy Ed Hoffman; pg 11 Adirondack Daily Enterprise; pg 12 - 13 (left to right, column top to bottom) Carl Heilman II (Boreas Pond), created by Kelly Thompson w/images by Mark Kurtz & Michael McMurray, Carl Heilman II (Follensby Pond), Melody Thomas (Hudson R. Gorge), Melody Thomas (BioBlitz), Kerry Davidson (Finch Forest Mgt.), C. Prickett (mink); pg 14 Carl Heilman II (Blue Ledge/Hudson R.); pg 15 Erin Walkow/TNC; pg 16 Carl Heilman II (view fr. Boreas Pond); pg 17 TNC, C. Prickett/TNC; pg 18 Carl Heilman (Boreas Mt.); pg 19 C. Prickett; ManhattanSociety.com; pg 20 Larry Master, Amy Deputy (Clintonville Pine Barrens); pg 21 Kelly Thompson; pg 22 Kelly Thompson (both); pg 23 courtesy D.L. Sears Books; pg 24 Carl Heilman II, TNC; pg 25 C. Prickett/TNC.TimELiNE (left to right) pg 4 Carl Heilman II (Santanoni); pg 5 Carl Heilman II (Valcour Is.), Mark Godfrey/TNC (Lake Lila); pg 6 TNC archives (Spring Pond Bog); pg 7 Gary Randorf; pg 8 C. Prickett (Split Rock); pg 9 TNC archives (Summit Stewards), Nancie Battaglia (EPF signing); pg 10 TNC archives (bat display); pg 11 C. Prickett (beech tree w/bear claw marks), Erika Edgley/ALT, TNC archives; pg 12 Gus Goodwin/TNC, C. Prickett/TNC; pg 13 C. Prickett, Tyler Smith/APIPP; pg 14 Ian Shive.

P.O. Box 658 Nature WayKeene Valley, NY 12943518.576.2082nature.org/adirondacks

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