Press Releases | American Farmland Trust

2012

January 31, 2012

Study Offers a Mixed Report Card on Farmland Protection Around Puget Sound

Seattle, Wash.—A new study on the effectiveness of farmland protection programs in Puget Sound counties finds that King, Whatcom and Skagit Counties lead the region in protecting farmland, but that all counties should be doing more to protect disappearing farms.

January 25, 2012

Kip Kolesinskas Joins American Farmland Trust's New England Office

Washington, D.C. —American Farmland Trust is pleased to announce that Kip Kolesinskas, long-serving USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist for Connecticut and Rhode Island from 1991 to 2011, has joined American Farmland Trust’s (AFT) New England Office as a consulting conservation scientist. Kolesinskas has also served as Connecticut Program Manager for the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program and Grassland Reserve Program and as Acting State Conservationist in Connecticut.

January 9, 2012

American Farmland Trust Hires Daniel O’Connell as San Joaquin Valley Field Representative

Washington, D.C. —American Farmland Trust is pleased to welcome Daniel O’Connell to its California staff as San Joaquin Valley Field Representative. O’Connell comes to AFT from the Sequoia Riverlands Trust, where he launched that organization’s farmland conservation program and later served as its associate director.