Wildlands, Woodlands, and Farmlands: the Past and Future of New England Forests and Farming – Brian Donahue
How much forest, free from development, does New England need, and how should it be managed? How much of our food could we, or should we grow in the region? What does the history of our land have to tell us about how best we might use it, and care for it today?
Join us for a broad-ranging lecture and discussion about the future of the New England landscape.
FREE! Advance registration required.
WHEN: Saturday, March 10, 2012 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
WHERE: Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Ave A, Turners Falls, MA
TO REGISTER: Contact Linda Alvord, Franklin Land Trust Member Services at
lalvord@verizon.net or (413) 625-9151.
Presented Franklin Land Trust as part of a series of events celebrating 25 years of land protection in western Massachusetts. For a full listing of events, visit the Franklin Land Trust events page.
This lecture co-sponsored by the Conway School of Landscape Design.
Image courtesy Brandeis University
Brian Donahue is an associate professor of American Environmental Studies on the Jack Meyerhoff Fund and among the core faculty in the Brandeis University Environmental Studies program.
Donahue teaches courses on environmental issues, environmental history and sustainable farming and forestry. He holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the Brandeis program in the History of American Civilization. He co-founded and for 12 years directed Land’s Sake, a nonprofit community farm in Weston, Massachusetts, and was director of education at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas.
Donahue is the author of “Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town” (1999), which won the 2000 Book Prize from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. His book “The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord” (2004) won the 2004 Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History, the 2005 Saloutos Prize from the Agricultural History Society and the 2004 Best Book Prize from the New England Historical Association.
His primary interest is the history and prospect of human engagement with the land.