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Todd Holschbach
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tholschbach@tnc.org

Governor Doyle Receives First Knowles-Nelson Leadership Award

The Nature Conservancy Applauds Governor Doyle’s Leadership in Reauthorizing the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund

MADISON, Wis. — January 31, 2008 — The Nature Conservancy announced Thursday that it recognized Governor Doyle’s efforts in conservation over the past year by awarding him the inaugural Knowles-Nelson Leadership Award.

 

Governor Jim Doyle, Steve Bablitch, Mary Jean Huston

Governor Jim Doyle, board chairman Steve Bablitch and state director Mary Jean Huston. Photo © Stefanie Grieve/TNC

“We would like to honor and thank Governor Jim Doyle for his outstanding leadership in the reauthorization of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund,” said Steve Bablitch, the board chairman for The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin. “Governor Doyle, like Governors Nelson and Knowles, is intensely aware that our land and our water define us as a state and are central to our way of life.”

The Stewardship Fund is a state lands conservation program established in 1990 to protect natural areas, water quality, wildlife habitat, parks and recreational lands. Governor Doyle led efforts during the recent state budget session to ensure that the program is reauthorized through the year 2020.

“During Governor Doyle’s tenure he has proven time and again his commitment to preserving the Stewardship Fund,” said Bablitch.  “It is only fitting that he be recognized with the first-ever Knowles-Nelson Leadership Award.”

The Conservancy presented Doyle with the award at its quarterly Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday at its office in Madison.

The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working in Wisconsin and around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 15 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. In Wisconsin, the Conservancy has helped conserve more than 140,000 acres since 1960. The Conservancy has more than 21,000 members in Wisconsin and offices in Madison, Baraboo, East Troy, Minocqua and Sturgeon Bay. On the Web at nature.org/wisconsin.