Its time
for us to learn a little something about John Triana the current Vice-President
of the Prospect Land Trust.
John who is originally from West Haven and has
lived in Prospect since 1998. He, his wife and two daughters have been involved
in the local community through the scouts and sports. As a family they have a
deep appreciation for nature, spend time hiking and even make their own maple
syrup from their backyard trees.
John
became interested in outdoors, and birds specifically, through a junior high
school teacher. He attended a whale watching trip to Portsmouth, NH and
realized that not all sea gulls were the same – herring, ring-billed,
great-backed, etc. That was his epiphany moment. John pursued his passion and
went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from UMass and Master’s from Mizzou
(Univ. of Missouri) – both in wildlife biology.
John is a
long time member of the Prospect Land Trust and has brought his vast knowledge
to many a Board meeting. Throughout his years he continues to assist Scout
Troops with projects, hosts events such as the BioBlitz at College Farms hiking
trail, bug night with Carol Lemmon, a retired entomologist with the CT Agricultural
Experimental Station & former President of the CT Botanical Society, and
has lead numerous hikes. Let’s not leave out John’s love of birding. Without a
doubt his most popular event has to be the Owl Prowl which continues to draw
large crowds from the surrounding community year after year. John is also very
active in one of the oldest birding groups in the US the New Haven Bird Club
which was established on April 3, 1907. He is a former President and presided
during NHBC’s centennial year in 2007. He is now the Club’s Historian and has
given talks on the Club’s history.
John works
for the Regional Water Authority as Real Estate Manager. He started working at
RWA in 1994 as a Water Science Educator coming out of gard school he moved to
the Natural Resources Dept. in 1997 as Natural Resource Analyst. In his current
position since 2013, the Real Estate Dept. covers management of all RWA
property (27.000+acres, 19,000+of which is forested) for the protection of the
public water supply. Management includes forestry, agriculture, and hunting.
RWA owns over 800 acres of land in Prospect, mostly on the far eastern edge of
town, up to the Cheshire border.
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