Hans Carlson: Executive Director
New London, NH – Conservation leader Hans Carlson has been named Executive Director of Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust (ASLPT), which protects land and water in New Hampshire’s Mt. Kearsarge/Ragged/Lake Sunapee region. He brings extensive experience in stewardship, program management, fundraising, policy, regulation, and environmental science.
Carlson has lived most of his life in rural New England, where he has engaged issues of land use and stewardship as a conservationist, an academic, and a woodworker. He joins ASLPT from Castine, Maine, where he has been Executive Director of the Blue Hill Heritage Trust for the past eight years. During his tenure, he successfully led numerous conservation projects, significantly increased the organization's fundraising efforts, and established strong partnerships with local communities and environmental organizations.
Previously, he was Director of Great Mountain Forest, in Norfolk CT. Prior to his work in land conservation, he taught in the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, as well as at the University of Maine. Before working in academia, he was a wooden boat builder and wilderness canoe trip leader. He is the author of Home Is The Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land, and Walking Toward Moosalamoo.
Through land conservation, stewardship and community engagement, Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust preserves and protects the rural character of the Mt. Kearsarge/Ragged/Lake Sunapee region, including Andover, Bradford, Danbury, Grantham, Goshen, Newbury, New London, Springfield, Sunapee, Sutton, Wilmot and Warner. For more information, visit https://www.ausbonsargent.org/
