Stewarding Future Conservationists: Anne Larson Receives Land Trust Scholarship

For the Truckee Donner Land Trust, conservation means forever. In that spirit, the Land Trust Board of Directors has awarded its Conservation & Environmental Stewardship Scholarship to a young local student primed to lead the next generation of conservation for our region: Anne Larson. 

“Our board felt like it needed to reach into the younger generations to be the future stewards of our land,” said Jennifer Pearsall Kobert, Board Member. “We wanted to show support for the generation coming up around land conservation.”

Anne, born and raised in Truckee, loves the region and all the outdoors have to offer. She looks forward to moving back to the region after she attends Stanford University with a focus on sustainability and environmental sciences.

“I want to make a career as an environmental consultant for companies,” she said. “I am really focused on environmental science and marine biology.”

The Board Committee was impressed with Anne’s academic resume and extracurricular commitment to environmental studies.

“Anne has done a lot of interesting volunteer work in the community; she has really devoted a lot of time and effort to pursuing those issues that are important to us,” said Board Member Dan Simmons.

One of those extracurricular activities was SCUBA diving in Tahoe to count invasive crayfish in the lake and their impacts on water clarity.

“We counted crayfish in a plot as well as algae growth,” she said.

The Land Trust looks forward to seeing all that Anne accomplishes.

“Her application showed a great wisdom in indicating that her future career will be a position not yet common to our culture,” said Board Member Jean Snuggs.