Funding Futures:
SCAPE: Stewarding Claverack and Philmont’s Environment
Highlands: Together We Decide
Led by Anya Bonanno and a core team of volunteers from both Claverack and Philmont.
Photos by Luca Pearl Khosrova
Next, the team will put the ideas on a ballot and get out the vote, community-wide!
The results of the vote will be revealed in the spring. Then the real work begins: making a plan and organizing volunteers and funding.
Check the SCAPE website for details.
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Anya Bonanno
CLAVERACK / PHILMONT
Stewarding Claverack and Philmont's Environment (SCAPE)
Anya Bonanno works at the Philmont Public Library and is excited to help her community identify shared environmental priorities through the Funding Futures program. She moved to Philmont in 2021 and lives there with her daughter and husband, who grew up in northern Dutchess County. She holds a PhD in Environmental Anthropology and recently completed a research fellowship with the U.S. Forest Service through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.