Laurie Wayburn Named Third Kingsbury Browne Fellow at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Co-founder of Pacific Forest Trust is able on backwoods administration and altitude change

Cambridge, Mass. (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 16, 2008 -- Laurie A. Wayburn, co-founder and admiral of the Pacific Forest Trust, was called to serve in the Kingsbury Browne Fellowship at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

The fellowship, called afterwards Boston advocate and acreage attention avant-garde Kingsbury Browne (1922-2005), will run for one year alpha this abatement It is the third Kingsbury Browne Fellowship awarded by the Lincoln Institute, a anticipate catchbasin based in Cambridge, Mass. The antecedent advisers were Mark Ackelson of Iowa and Darby Bradley of Vermont.

Wayburn has added than 25 years of acquaintance in the attention and sustainability fields, and has led state, regional, and civic efforts to achieve altitude change behavior that affiliate attention and administration with market-based incentives to abate carbon dioxide emissions. She is the co-author of America's Private Forests: Status and Stewardship (Island Press 2001), and accustomed both the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award and the Forest Leadership Award.

The Pacific Forest Trust, based in San Francisco, is committed to comestible America's alive forests for all the allowances they accommodate - acceptable wood, water, wildlife and a composed climate. Through costs innovations and beat the use of alive backwoods attention easements, the alignment has been active in the aegis of millions of acreage of backwoods land.

Kingsbury Browne is accustomed as one of the founders of America's avant-garde acreage assurance movement, now a arrangement of added than 1500 acreage trusts operating throughout the US, attention added than 35 actor acres. In 1980, as a adolescent at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Browne aboriginal envisioned this arrangement and convened attention leaders at the Institute, a acquisition that ultimately led to the accumulation of the Land Trust Alliance, formed in 1982. Today the Land Trust Alliance works to strengthen acreage attention by advocating favorable tax policies, training acreage trusts in best practices, and alive to ensure the abidingness of attention in the face of continuing threats.

The Kingsbury Browne Fellowship is awarded in affiliation with the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award, appear by Land Trust Alliance as allotment of the affairs of the National Land Conservation Conference in Pittsburgh September 17-20.

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