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Trinity College has been awarded a 2002 Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Green Circle award on behalf of the Trinity College Field Station (TCFS) at Church Farm. Scott Smedley, assistant professor of biology and chair of the field station’s advisory committee, notes that TCFS is being cited for promoting conservation and environmental awareness in Connecticut. 

“The Green Circle award is a wonderful recognition of our efforts to preserve open space in northeastern Connecticut,” Smedley says. “It makes our work establishing this field station’s educational and research programs all the more rewarding.” 

The Connecticut Department of Envornmental Protection (DEP) established the Green Circle awards program to recognize businesses, institutions, individuals, and civic organizations that have undertaken pollution prevention, waste reduction, or other projects furthering natural resource conservation and environmental awareness. 

Established in 1999 by a gift from Joe and Dorothy Church Zaring, TCFS is a rural teaching and research site comprising 256 acres in the towns of Ashford and Mansfield, Connecticut. The Zarings also received a Greeen Circle award during the ceremony, in recognition of their gift of Church Farm to Trinity College and their consequent contribution to open space preservation in Connecticut. Trinity College presently holds 152 acres of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. The remaining 104 acres are held by the Joshua’s Trust, a land conservation group dedicated to the preservation of open space in northeastern Connecticut.

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