The Hanover Conservancy would like to inform our members, partners, and neighbors that Adair Mulligan, the Conservancy’s Executive Director, has decided to step aside. Her career has been marked by a deep love of our land and dedicated service to expanding and strengthening conservation initiatives in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont.
To know Adair is to know her fervent love of nature. Adair’s accomplishments over the past fifteen years cannot be understated. She became the Conservancy’s first full-time Executive Director in 2010, where her deep knowledge and talents in land conservation, stewardship, and coalition building became readily apparent. Adair helped expand Hanover’s network of protected areas and dramatically increased our community’s capacity to responsibly manage key resources. Under Adair’s leadership, the Hanover Conservancy’s number of protected properties and acreage tripled over those protected across the previous half century of the organization’s history. In addition, she supported efforts by the Town of Hanover and others to protect another 450 acres. The financial assets of the Conservancy expanded more than eight-fold.
Perhaps most importantly, Adair’s commitment to connecting people to the environment led to hundreds of community field trips and educational events, scholarship awards, and conservation trainings. An environmental biologist with a deep interest in cultural history, Adair brought a new focus on how natural resources shape the human experience on the landscape.
We are grateful to have Adair’s leadership, expertise, and energy until December. Indeed, Adair is working in overdrive to finalize several exciting conservation projects before she steps down. Later this year we’re planning a formal event to properly thank Adair for her service to our community. In the meantime, please join us at a Hanover Conservancy event to get outdoors and say thank you.
The Hanover Conservancy will soon begin the difficult task of finding Adair’s successor. Please reach out if you know of good candidates.
Adair – The Hanover Conservancy Board, on behalf of our members, volunteers, and partners thanks you for your devotion, your passion, your intelligence, and most of all, your service to the land. What you have accomplished will live on forever.
