Cindy Dunn Receives Environmental Leadership Award For Work With PA Rivers

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay announcedCindy Adams Dunn, a Deputy Secretary with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, isthis year's winner of its Environmental Leadership Award. The award is given each year in honor of Fran Flanigan, former executive director of the Alliance.

 

Recipients of the Environmental Leadership Award are chosen for their dedication to the cause of restoring the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers. Past recipients have included both volunteers and public servants, some who have focused on particular issues and areas, and others whose service has been broad and watershed-wide.

 

 

Dunn was chosen for her decades of effort to generate public awareness of the importance of healthy rivers in Pennsylvania to the overall restoration of the Chesapeake. With the Susquehanna River contributing almost half of the freshwater to the Bay, and with another portion of the state draining into the Potomac, the commonwealth is the source of most of the river inflows to the estuary.

 

Dunn's dedication to restoring the health of these rivers and reducing their adverse impacts on the Bay has been a critical part of the Pennsylvania effort.

 

She is the deputy secretary for Conservation and Technical Services in DCNR, leading the department's work in landscape conservation, recreation, geology and topography. Prior to this, Dunn was director of the Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. Before joining the department, she was the executive director of Pennsylvania Audubon.

 

Alliance Board Chair Bill Matuszeski congratulated Dunn on her selection and noted, "We are proud that, like others in our wonderful new generation of regional environmental leaders, Cindy Dunn got her start with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, serving as our Pennsylvania program director for 10 years until 1997."

 

Dunn will be presented with her award at the annual "Taste of the Chesapeake" fund- raiser November 7 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on the Inner Harbor South.

 

Visit the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay website for more information.(Reprinted from the Chesapeake Bay Journal.)