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Westmoreland Land Trust Board Member Changes, Accomplishments
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Susan L. Huba, executive director of the Loyalhanna Watershed Association, and Loree Speedy, a cartographer and field botanist, were recently elected to the board of the Westmoreland Land Trust.
Huba joined the Loyalhanna Watershed Association as project manager in 2005, and last year was named as the organization’s executive director. She also has worked as the education assistant at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Powdermill Nature Reserve.
She is the volunteer editor of the Sewickley Creek Watershed Association’s newsletter, and has served as a member of the Westmoreland Earth Day committee and as chair of both the Latrobe Corridor Cleanup and the Great Ligonier Valley Cleanup.
Speedy, proficient in Geographic Information Systems software, serves as a cartographer for PRINT. She also performs fieldwork and rare plant surveys for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and other entities, and has coauthored published plant checklists of Crawford, Fayette, and Washington counties.
She is the current field trip coordinator and past newsletter editor of the Botanical Society of Western Pennsylvania. She also serves on the Community Investment Fund Committee for the Mon Valley Initiative, and previously served on the board of directors of Downtown West Newton, Inc.
Re-appointed to the board were: Betsy Aiken of Murrysville, community volunteer; Westmoreland County Commissioner Ted Kopas of Hempfield Township; Mike Kuzemchak of Rector, Laurel Highlands program director, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy; Larry Larese of Export, director, Westmoreland County Department of Planning; and Tony Quadro of Stahlstown, assistant district manager/technical programs director, Westmoreland Conservation District.
During their three-year terms on the all-volunteer board of the Westmoreland Land Trust, these volunteers will help the nonprofit organization conserve and steward land of special value in Westmoreland County, including land that contributes to the region’s quality of life because of its scenic, recreational, environmental, historical, or cultural qualities.
To-date, the three-year-old land trust has preserved more than 105 acres in four Westmoreland County communities:
-- the 59-acre Otto and Magdalene Ackermann Nature Preserve in Ardara, North Huntingdon Township;
-- 22 acres in Murrysville, adjacent to the Lillian Kellman Nature Reserve;
-- 21 acres in Rostraver Township, along the Youghiogheny River; and
-- 3.5 acres in the City of Greensburg, near Cabin Hill Drive.
Meetings of the Westmoreland Land Trust are held at the Westmoreland Conservation District office, Donohoe Center, 218 Donohoe Road, and the public is invited to attend.
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2/21/2011 |
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