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Keystone Project Honored for Outstanding Environmental Education [1]

Paul Catanzaro teaching Keystone Cooperators in Harvard Forest [2]
Thursday, April 6, 2017

The Massachusetts Keystone Project [3] has been awarded a prestigious Environmental Service Award by the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions [4].  Led by UMass Extension a 3-day training workshop at Harvard Forest has been held every April since 1988.
The award, given for outstanding environmental education, is well-deserved. Since 1988, Keystone Project leaders David Kittredge [5] and Paul Catanzaro [6] have led 26 training workshops, with over 500 Massachusetts community members participating as Keystone Cooperators.

Cooperators are expected to volunteer a minimum of 30 hours after the training workshop to advance conservation at the local level.

Recent evaluations show that in a one-year period, Keystone Cooperators made contact with 15,033 people about forest conservation, and 1,742 referrals to conservation information resources. Keystone Cooperators contributed 44,636 hours to conservation-related activities, 63% of which were volunteer hours. This is equivalent of more than 22 full-time conservation positions, of which nearly 14 positions were volunteer.

Learn more about the Keystone Project [7].

The UMass Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment is the home of UMass Extension and the Mass. Ag. Experiment Station.

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[1] https://ag.umass.edu/cafe/news/keystone-project-honored-for-outstanding-environmental-education
[2] https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/colorbox_overlay_original_image/public/images/keystoen_and_paul_cat.jpg?itok=EFpx08w8
[3] https://masskeystone.net
[4] http://www.maccweb.org/page/EDAEC2017
[5] http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researchers/
[6] http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/catanzaro-paul/
[7] https://masskeystone.net/