Winter 2020

Explore conservation conversations and teachable moments, address Oak Wilt threats, celebrate recent preservation success, learn property updates, new leadership, enduring family legacies, and honor Dr. Charles Kane’s generous bequest together.

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Highlights

  • Those “Conservation Conversations” and How They Happen–We know the conversations are important, so it’s also important that we consider the best way to deliver our message to our varied audience.
  • Conversations and Teachable Moments–A young parent writes a wondrful article about the conversations he has with his 6-year old daughter while hiking around our beautiful area.
  • A Danger to Our Precious Oaks–Sullivan County Forester Dode Gladders shares concerns for the infectious disease known as Oak Wilt.
  • Sawyer Brook Headwaters Update–Ausbon Sargent Trustee Sheridan Brown presents the great news about Ausbon Sargent’s most recently preserved property.
  • Property News, pages 6-7:  Learn more about the Rowell MacWilliams Woodlot and the Stiles/Fore Addition.
  • Transitions in Leadership at Ausbon Sargent–Meet our new trustees on pages 10-11.
  • Conservation Conversations and the Webb Family–Generations of the Webb Family at Harding Hill Farm talk about the conversations necessary to keep a family farm vibrant.
  • Leaving a Legacy to the Land He Loved–Dr. Charles Kane chose to honor Ausbon Sargent with his wonderful bequest.