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2025 Land Trust Scholarship

The Arlington Land Trust is welcoming applications for its Land Trust Conservation Scholarship. The deadline is April 15. Download Application Form.

To be eligible for a $1,000 scholarship, you must be a high school senior and a resident of Arlington. You may be attending Arlington High School, Arlington Catholic, Minuteman, or another public or private high school. The Land Trust seeks to support seniors who will be pursuing education, volunteer service or work in conservation, environmental protection or a related field after graduation. The award will be given to one or more Arlington residents at a time decided by their high school. View last year’s winners. 

Send your completed application to norafrank@comcast.net by April 15, 2025. All applications will be acknowledged. When submitting your application, please name it: ALTScholarship[YOURLASTNAME] (e.g., ALTScholarshipSMITH). 

ALT Scholarship Winners 2024

The Arlington Land Trust established the Arlington Land Trust Conservation Scholarship for graduating seniors at Arlington High School in 2024. The response was excellent, and we decided to award not one but three $1,000 scholarships to students who will be pursuing education, volunteer service and work in conservation, environmental protection or a related field.

We are pleased to recognize these three winners of the inaugural ALT scholarship program:

Tatem Kerr participated in an internship at Mass Audubon’s Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary taking care of resident goats, learning and utilizing best practices for composting, and teaching community service groups and school children about the environment. She plans to major in marine science and work to protect ocean wildlife from plastic waste, and may later explore becoming an environmental lawyer.

Miriam Oliveri-Schneider co-founded Full Circle Compost Service, a student-run, free and accessible food waste reduction service program. She also pursued an internship at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Care Center, where she worked with injured animals and researched the causes. That experience influenced her goal to become a conservation biologist to study the effects of human pollution and environmental degradation on wildlife.

Clara Schneider has been actively involved in the Remembrance of Climate Futures Arlington project, which promotes climate resilience and advocacy, as well as in other internships to promote sustainable waste management and combat extreme heat. Her advocacy for various aspects of environmental preservation and experience on Arlington’s Debate Team have led to her goal of becoming an environmental lawyer.

We congratulate these students on their significant contributions to environmental issues in Arlington and wish them well in their future educational and career endeavors.

As a part of our conservation and education mission, we intend to open up the Scholarship application process to all Arlington-based high school seniors in 2025. We are grateful for the generosity of our members who make these awards possible. Thank you.

Restore Dark Skies Recording

The Arlington Land Trust presented a Zoom program, Restore Dark Skies for Arlington, on Tuesday, May 14, and we are pleased to share this recording for those unable to attend the meeting. Kelly Beatty, senior editor at Sky & Telescope Magazine, explained how light pollution disrupts wildlife, impacts human health, wastes money and energy, contributes to climate change, and blocks our view of the universe. Hear his suggestions and participants’ questions about how we in Arlington can take action to limit light pollution and reclaim the night sky.