Welcome Alison Scheiderer!
December 2018 – Please help us welcome Alison Scheiderer to the Five Rivers Staff! Alison will join us in January as our first Land Conservation Specialist. She comes to us from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) where she served as Land Protection Associate over the past 8 years, covering all of New England.
In that position she re-created and coordinated ATC’s volunteer monitoring and boundary maintaining program and created a training program for volunteer monitors. She has a history of collaboration with volunteers, landowners, state clubs, federal agencies and private landowners. We were especially impressed with Alison’s ability to tackle complicated projects, take initiative and think systematically to solve problems.
At Five Rivers, Alison will broaden her efforts to collaborate with landowners, towns, and funders to conserve important land in the greater capital area, she will lead our effort to create a conservation plan to identify the most important land for conservation, and she will lead our land and easement stewardship program.
Alison lives with her husband and two children right next door in Epsom, where she serves on the School Board. She will join Five Rivers’ staff in mid-January. We can’t think of a better way to celebrate 30 years of conservation than to expand our capacity to conserve more of the farms, forests, wetlands, and wildlife habitats that make the greater capital area a wonderful place to live, work, and play.
