BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:477@northcountylandtrust.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T160000 DTSTAMP:20240317T174317Z URL:https://northcountylandtrust.org/events/landowner-workshop/ SUMMARY:Landowner Workshop DESCRIPTION:Seize the opportunity to participate in a day of valuable insig hts and practical knowledge at no cost during this Landowner Workshop. Whe ther you're a seasoned landowner or considering the legacy of your propert y\, this event is designed to equip you with the tools and understanding n eeded for shaping the future of your land.\n\nThe agenda will include:\n\n 1. Welcome and Introductions\n\n2. Conservation and Land Protection Basics \nAnna Wilkins\, Executive Director\, North County Land Trust\n\n3. Planni ng for the Future of Your Land\nJustin Raphaelson\, Esquire\n\n4. Land Pro tection Funding Resources\nJim French\, Sterling Land Trust\n\n5. Example from the Field\nJohn Mirick\, Princeton Land Trust\n\n6. Questions and Wra p-up\n\nRefreshments will be served.\nRegistration is requested by March 2 3rd.\n\n \;\n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\nAnna Wilkins\, awilkins@northcountylan dtrust.org\, Executive Director. A native of north central Massachusetts\, Anna's background is in Wildlands Ecology and Natural Resource Management . She has worked in the land conservation community in Massachusetts since 2004 having experience in both the private\, non-profit and municipal sec tors. Anna serves on the board of the Mass Land Trust Coalition. As a resi dent of Ashburnham\, she volunteers as a member of the Ashburnham Open Spa ce Committee\, Conservation Commission\, and with the Ashburnham Conservat ion Trust doing trail work.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\nJustin Raphaelson is a w riter\, lawyer\, climber\, ultrarunner\, mountaineer\, and conservationist . He also has a passion for taking cross country road trips to explore the great outdoors. Sensing the urgency to inform others of the beauty within our own country\, and most importantly\, maintaining that beauty for futu re generations\; he started documenting his journeys\, eventually publishi ng a memoir in 2020\, Take to the Unscathed Road.\n\n\nWhen he’s not at his day job as an attorney\, Justin can be found at the local crag or in t he mountains. He is a New England boy at heart and is obsessed with the Wh ite Mountains and Adirondacks. It has become paramount for Justin to find a way to use his writing and familiarity with the law to raise awareness n ot only for recreation in the outdoors but for its preservation. He docume nts his adventures on his blog\; jccrosscountry.com. You can also follow along on Facebook\, Instagram and Twitter.\n\nA property and criminal defense attorney based in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, Justin is a graduate of New England Law-Boston and has a B.A. in History from Clark University . He is also an executive board member of the Greater Worcester Land Trust .\n\nJustin deeply enjoys conservation projects and has worked with a numb er of climbing organizations over the years such as SNECC\, CRAG-VT\, and WMCC on access projects.\n\n\n\nJim French. Following a time in the early 1980s as a consulting forester\, Jim recently retired after 40 years worki ng with the Metropolitan District Commission and the Department of Conserv ation and Recreation. He was the chief forester for the Wachusett and Sudb ury reservoir watersheds from 1983 to 1993. Concurrent with these duties a nd for the ensuing 30 years he was the Land Acquisition Coordinator for DC R's Division of Water Supply Protection\, a program that resulted in the p urchase both in fee and conservation restriction of 28\,000 acres within t he Quabbin\, Ware River\, and Wachusett watersheds.  He is a founding mem ber of the Sterling Land Trust where he continues the enjoyable work of he lping landowners reach their land protection goals\, while managing his fa mily's multi generation apple farm.\n\nJohn Mirick\, an attorney with Miri ck O’Connell in Worcester\, is a trustee of the Princeton Land Trust\, c hair of the Princeton Planning Board\, and a member of the Princeton Agric ultural Commission.  His family’s land in Princeton has been managed un der a Ch. 61 Forest Management Plan since 1974.  A small portion of the l and in the Ch. 61A Agricultural Program is used by a CSA.  He will share some of his family’s experiences as forest owners.  As a trustee of the Princeton Land Trust\, he regularly works with Princeton residents intere sted in the preservation of open space.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://northcountylandtrust.org/wp-content/uplo ads/2024/01/Screenshot-13.png LOCATION:1835 Town Hall\, 31 Main Street\, Sterling\, MA\, 01564\, United S tates X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=31 Main Street\, Sterling\, MA\, 01564\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=1835 Town Hall:geo: 0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR