The Massachusetts Keystone Project : Keystone Application Process

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Cooperator in your area.

Keystone Application Process

Cooperator Quotes

“Of many meetings on conservation that I have attended, this was the best!"

"Made me appreciate the range of possible decisions a landowner can take in managing a forest"

The Keystone Project is a competitive program. Applications will be reviewed for applicant experience, connectedness within the community, special skills, and diversity.

Download a Keystone Application:

PDF Format

Microsoft Word Document File

The next Keystone Annual Training is scheduled for:

April 19th - 22nd, 2012
At the Harvard Forest,
Petersham, Massachusetts

Applications will be accepted:
Starting in January 2012

The application deadline is:
March 12th, 2012

Notification by mail will go out by:
Mid-March 2011

Please submit application materials to:
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Paul Catanzaro
160 Holdsworth Way
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

If you have any questions, contact Paul Catanzaro:
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Phone: (413) 545-4839

This is the web site for the Keystone Project, run by the Forest Conservation Extension Program within UMass Extension's Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation program, Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst. This web site was made possible through the generosity of the following organizations: Highland Communities Initiative, MA TNC, and the MA Woodlands Institute.

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