MEMBER SNAPSHOT / Leigh Melander, PhD and Partner, Spillian
"When I was considering moving to the Catskills from California fifteen years ago, I came across the Catskill Center’s website.”
“Finding an organization that saw conservation and development as interwoven ideas rather than in direct competition (since the 1970s - years before most people were thinking this way!) was one of the reasons I knew we could thrive here.
“CCCD is unique, both in its reach as the one truly regional Catskills organization, and in its continued sense of vision about how we can make these mountains sing.
“And I will always be grateful for CCCD’s willingness to take on Catskill Trout Tales, which Spillian birthed as an experiment in grassroots regional tourism in 2018, and breathe life into it as an ongoing, Catskills-wide invitation for people to come and explore the area not just as tourists, but as stewards."”
From Catskills Magazine 2019 Issue 3.
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