Mary Edwards Friend of the Land Trust Award
Mary Edwards standing on Mary’s Rock in 1919
In honor of Mary Edwards’ many contributions to Granby and the Granby Land Trust, the Land Trust Board has established the Mary Edwards Friend of the Trust Award. This service award will be given annually at the Land Trust’s Annual Meeting and Hike to an individual or organization that has done – through a single gift or collectively over many years – the most to promote the GLT’s mission of “preserving Granby’s natural heritage.”
Award recipients by year:
2004 – Ray Betts
2005 – Seth and Lucy Holcombe
2006 – Robert Schlicht
2007 – Paula and Lowell Johnson
2008 – Dr. Forrest H. Davis, DVM
2009 – Fred and Edith Wilhelm
2010 – The Granby Board of Selectmen
2011 – Put and Nannie Brown
2012 – Dave Russell
2013 – Sali Godard Riege, Barbara Godard and Godard Family
2014 – Rick Orluk and Trish Percival
2015 – Dave and Sandy Schupp
2016 – Ann Pelka
2017 – Charles and Joan Katan
2018 – Rod Dimock
2019 – Steve Wilcox Hastings
2020 – Jamie Gamble
2021 – Dave and Jenny Emery
2022 – Eric Lukingbeal and Sally King
2023 – Mark and Barb Wetzel
Ann Pelka Unsung Hero Award
Awarded when appropriate, the Ann Pelka Unsung Hero Award recognizes an individual who has worked tirelessly and behind the scenes on behalf of the Land Trust. Upon her passing in 2017, Ann Pelka made a surprise gift of four pieces of agricultural land totaling almost 150 acres to the Granby Land Trust. We will be forever grateful to her for this generous, selfless, and benevolent act.
Award recipients by year:
2018 – Peter Dinella
2020 – Dave Emery
2021 – Don Shaw
2023 – Leslie Judge
Olof Stevenson Award
Named in memory of Olof Stevenson, who served as the caretaker of the Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve for more than 50 years when it was privately owned, the Olof Stevenson Award celebrates exemplary stewardship work by a member(s) of the Granby Land Trust.
Award recipients by year:
2021 – Karen and Bob Saunders
Granby Land Trust awarded its highest honor, the Mary Edwards Friend of the Land Trust Award, to Mark and Barb Wetzel at the GLT's 2023 Annual Meeting. GLT President Rick Orluk (left), and longtime GLT Board Member Put Brown presented the award.
Earlier this spring, we set up this trail cam on a log crossing over the roaring Mountain Brook on the GLT’s Garmany Preserve in West Granby. We hoped to capture some video of animals making their way from one side of the brook to the other. After watching hundreds of squirrel videos (truly, hundreds), we were thrilled to see this beautiful bobcat! Watch how he disappears into the woods 👀.
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Two Virginia Rails photographed earlier this week near the South Marsh at the GLT’s Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve. Wary of being in the open, these chickenlike long-billed birds like freshwater and brackish wetlands (like the South Marsh) that have cover and they feed primarily on insects. You are more likely to hear their distinctive call in the hours surrounding dawn and dusk (“tick-it, tick-it, tick-it…) than see them so this was a terrific photo 📸 capture by GLT Member Don Shaw, Jr.
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Once again, the Granby Land Trust’s “Trust the Bees” Gran-Bee Trivia Contest team stirred up a beehive of activity at last Friday’s Granby Education Foundation event. We thank our Gran-Bee Team members – GLT Board Members Karen Dowd, Stacey Bahn Kroninger, and former GMHS student and current educator Kenzie Dowd – for their great work, which included distributing many Karen Dowd-crocheted bees 🐝 to a swarming crowd of youngsters. Congratulations 👏 to the Granby Education Foundation on running yet another successful Gran-Bee!
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