Clarice Cutler of East Montpelier, Evan Foster of Burlington, Maria Brosseau of Burlington and Mead Binhammer of Brookfield have joined the Vermont Land Trust to advance conservation across the state.
Cutler, former environmental analyst for the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, joins VLT as project director for central Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom. She will be working with farmers on new conservation projects and helping to steward lands that have already been conserved.
Foster, a University of Vermont graduate who served an ECO AmeriCorps term with the land trust in 2021-22, joins VLT as lands coordinator. He will be focused on creating and maintaining systems for managing VLT-owned lands as well as the organization’s restoration and forest management programs.
Brosseau joins VLT as legal project manager for conservation projects, bringing skills and experience from her last position at a Burlington law firm. She will be working closely with landowners, communities and VLT staff on the legal aspects of land conservation throughout the Northeast Kingdom and Orange and Bennington counties.
With a background in land stewardship and wildlife biology, Binhammer most recently worked at the Trustees of Reservations in Massachusetts, where he served as stewardship team leader. As a project director at VLT, he will be working on new conservation projects as well as stewardship of protected lands in central Vermont, with a special focus on the Mad River Valley.
Photo caption: Clockwise, from top left: Clarice Cutler, Evan Foster, Maria Brosseau and Mead Binhammer.