PA Environment Digest

The Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation this week named Wren Dugan to the position of Watershed Community Development Coordinator for the coming year.

The Watershed Community Development Coordinator serves to enable EPCAMR's success along with its supporting organizations by building public awareness and involvement through educational outreach and community revitalization projects.

The volunteer position is cost-shared between EPCAMR, the Corporation for National Service, and the Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team, under the direction of the Federal Office of Surface Mining.

Wren will also assist with water monitoring, watershed research, and developing projects necessary to help secure EPCAMR additional organizational funding to keep the small staff of two full-time and fully operational and self-sustaining.

Wren holds a B.F.A. from Edinboro University of PA, where she served as Managing Editor of the internationally-award winning art and literary journal, allowing her to build experience with fundraising and events planning, and volunteer organization.

With more than a decade of experience with educational programming for children and youth, her personal investment with family roots in Bradford County, and a passion for all things environmental make her an enthusiastic advocate for the reclamation of lands effected by abandoned mine drainage.

"With Wren's skills in fundraising, marketing, and previous work with children and youth, we feel that she is going to bring those sets of much needed assets to our organization over the next year to help us move forward, during these economic hard times when finding funds, in the non-profit world, are hard to come by," said Robert Hughes, EPCAMR Executive Director.

"EPCAMR has just recently begun to update our strategic plan for our organization looking forward three to five years down the road, and Wren is coming in at a time when her ability to help us sort out some of those strategic implementation goals and objectives are going to crucial to the future success of our organization's development."

In June 2011, EPCAMR will be celebrating its 15th year of existence as a regional non-profit environmental organization that has become a state-wide leader in the fight to reclaim abandoned mine lands and to restore streams impacted by abandoned mine drainage.

"Wren is going to be able fulfill the role of that third full-time staff person that will be able to help us put together our first 15th Anniversary Dinner and Fundraiser, before her term of service is up next August," said Hughes.

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