BETHEL CITIZEN • June 9, 2021
An outpouring of gifts from family members, colleagues, and friends of Ken Hotopp has created a Mahoosuc Land Trust (MLT) fund to conserve lands with minimal human manipulation and disturbance. The fund honors the late Kenneth P. Hotopp, naturalist, conservation biologist, and defender of wilderness and the climate who understood that minimally disturbed lands are rare in Maine and that these lands provide habitat where certain organisms thrive. He wanted future generations to know what it feels like to stand alone in a forest, to feel the vitality and vibrance of an ecosystem that is truly wild.