A Common Good Traditional Cache
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"If there is a common welfare,
A common good,
It is forest ecosystems."
- Joel Kuperberg
In 2005 the late Joel Kuperberg received the Green Globe Lifetime Achievement Award for significant work during his lifetime to preserve and protect our environment.
Joel lived on Vashon Island for 25 years with his wife Yvonne. He was considered a leader for conservation on Vashon/Maury Islands, having worked to protect Fern Cove and the Shinglemill Salmon Preserve.
On the island he was active in Salmon Watchers, Preserve Our Islands, Audubon, Protect Our Water, Land Trust, and Vashon-Maury Island Community Council. He also helped found the Forest Stewards to promote sustainable forestry and to educate landowners about forestry. Joel was born in Feburary 1927 in Miami, Florida and earned a masters in botany. He utilized that education to protection Florida's ecosystems, including founding the Collier County Conservancy, assisting in establishing two national estuarine sanctuaries and serving as Executive Director of the Florida State Lands Agency.
The St. Petersburg Times noted that as director of the Florida State Lands Agency 'he defied some of Florida's most influential developers.' He left that job to run the Trust for Public Land and ultimately moved to Vashon Island.
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