CLCA is a program of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. The full time director, Dijit Taylor, and the part-time Technical Specialist, Barbara Richter, are based in the award-winning Conservation Center in Concord.

Prior to coming to CLCA, Barbara was the membership and stewardship coordinator at the Monadnock Conservancy in Keene, NH. Barbara has been working in the land conservation field training volunteers, developing organizational policy, and creating outreach programs for community land trusts since 2000. Barbara previously worked in public affairs for a major hospital in Boston. She established the conservation commission in Surry and is now active with the Friends of Open Space in Keene. She has an undergraduate degree in fine arts from Syracuse University and a master's degree in environmental studies from Antioch New England University.

Dijit came to CLCA after working as the special projects coordinator at the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation where she presented the earlier version of The Dollars and Sense of Open Space and authored Open Space for New Hampshire, A Tool book of Techniques for the New Millennium. Dijit has also worked as a classroom teacher and as director of the research department of the Appalachian Mountain Club. Dijit has an undergraduate degree in geology from Middlebury College and a master’s degree in resource conservation from Cornell University.

Center for Land Conservation Assistance Committee

Peter Bergh, New Castle, Chair
Carol Andrews, NH Association of Conservation Commissions
Rebecca Brown, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust
William Dunlap, Merrimack
Kathy Hersh, Nashua
Peter Lamb, NH Charitable Foundation
Frank Mitchell, UNH Cooperative Extension
Victor Schmalzer, Brentwood
Debbie Stanley, Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust
Don Wharton, Plymouth

If you need assistance with a land conservation project, call CLCA to find out what we can do to help.