Betsey Harris, the moving spirit behind the Monadnock Conservancy, was honored with the Sarah Thorne Award at the recent Saving Special Places conference in Guilford. The annual conference is organized by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forest’Center for Land Conservation Assistance.

The Sarah Thorne Conservation Award was created in 2005 to recognize the people who make successful land conservation happen in New Hampshire. Recipients are intended to be those who, in the course of their own conservation efforts, have also enhanced the capacity of others.

George Frame was recently honored by the New England Society of American Foresters (NESAF) with the James W. Toumey Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service. Throughout his career, Frame has shared his broad array of skills and knowledge with other, often younger, foresters, mentoring and instilling in them his particular brand of common sense and pragmatism.