Dawn Morgan (pictured), Fred Nelson, Karin Chamberlain and Paul Costello have been elected to the board of trustees of the Vermont Land Trust, a statewide nonprofit organization focused on land conservation in Vermont.

Morgan, of Greensboro, works in a family consulting business providing forestry, ecology, land management and mapping services to Vermont landowners. Her work includes GIS mapping, forest inventory, ecological assessments and landowner communication.

Award-winning journalist Austyn Gaffney has joined VTDigger and the University of Vermont’s Center for Community News through a new reporting and instructing partnership. Gaffney recently completed a fellowship on The New York Times’ climate desk, where she produced stories on federal policy changes, rising sea levels, extreme weather events and more.