wlt 2014 annual benefit: digital journal
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The 2014 Westchester Land Trust Preservation Angel Honoree
Candace M. Schafer
This Evening’s Program
Cocktail Party, Silent Auction & Giving Tree on the Second Floor6pm – 7:45pm
Dinner on the Main Floor8pm
Video Presentation8:30pm
Awards Presentation - Candace M. Schafer, Honoree8:45pm
Live Auction9pm
Paddle Raise9:15pm
Dessert & Dancing9:30pm – 11pm
Land that we have protected since 1988.
The Westchester Land Trust is working to protect
the 35-acre Otter Creek Preserve in Mamaroneck
Westchester Wilderness Walk/Zofnass Family Preserve in
Pound Ridge – approximately 150 acres of amazing
trails open to the public.
Children from Something Good in the World volunteer to pick
vegetables at Westchester Land Trust’s Sugar Hill Farm
The Ice Pond Conservation Area in
Patterson, NY, Putnam County – site of the NEW
Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Preserve.
Lori Ensinger (center), Judi Terlizzi from Putnam County Land Trust
and Jim Utter from Friends of the Great Swamp,
tour the new Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Preserve –
the three organizations worked together to protect
this 115-acre parcel in Putnam County.
The Valeria Conservation Easement in the Town in
Cortlandt - totaling 655 acres, the largest conservation
easement ever in Westchester County.
Sam’s Trail at the 62-acre Guard Hill Preserve
in Bedford Village
Volunteer Clean-Up Day at the Pine Croft Meadow Preserve in Waccabuc
Invasive Plant Removal at Westchester Wilderness Walk/Zofnass Family
Preserve in Pound Ridge
Thank you to all our friends at Old Salem Farm for
graciously and generously welcoming us this evening!
The Tom Burke Preserve in Bedford Hills
Installing tree tubes at the Maryknoll Center in Ossining
“Helping Hands” Volunteers from Ernst & Young
move a bridge at Hunter Brook Preserve in Yorktown
The 45-acre Hunter Brook Preserve in Yorktown
We congratulate and thank Candace for her leadership and dedication to
The Westchester Land Trustand for all she has afforded
The Urban Land Institute of Westchester/Fairfield.
Building the fence around Westchester Land Trust’s Sugar Hill Farm to
increase productivity… in 2013, we grew 875 lbs (or 4,604 servings)
of fresh, nutritious produce for the Food Bank for Westchester.
Land that we have protected since 1988.
Glenwood Lake in New Rochelle
Interns planting a tree at Westchester Land Trust’s Sugar Hill Farm
Hikers at Westchester Wilderness Walk/Zofnass Family Preserve
in Pound Ridge
Candace Schafer in the field at an educational event
We congratulate and thank Candace for her leadership and dedication to
The Westchester Land Trustand for all she has afforded
The Urban Land Institute of Westchester/Fairfield.