General News: Protter Joins Orange County Land Trust Board
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| Howard Protter |
May 08, 2008
Howard Protter has been appointed as a trustee to the Orange County Land Trust, which works to preserve open space and create protected land on private property.
Protter, is the managing partner and chief executive officer of the law firm Jacobowitz and Gubits. He also served for 26 years as the attorney to the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, where he makes his home. Protter’s specialty is municipal law and litigation, including land use issues and environmental concerns.
In addition to his work as counsel to the village, Protter has served as the president of the board of trustees of the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum. He is also a member of the Cornwall Lions Club and a director of the Clare J. Hoyt Memorial Fund.
The Orange County Land Trust’s mission is to preserve the fields, forests, wetlands, ridgelines and river corridors in and around Orange County through voluntary land conservation. To date, the land trust has protected over 3,000 acres of scenically important and biologically sensitive lands as well as working farmland. For more information and for volunteer opportunities, please visit the group’s website at oclt.org.
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If Mr. Protter does as good a job preserving open sapce and protecting land for the Orange County Land Trust as he did protecting the water wells at Star Industries for Cornwall, we are all in trouble.
posted by The King of Duncan Ave on 05/09/08 at 1:43 PM
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