Group For The East End’s Saddle Up For Conservation Benefit At The Bridge

As stewards of the environment on the East End for more than five decades, Group for the East End has been instrumental in some of the most important protections for our land, water, and wildlife. To support its ongoing advocacy, conservation, and education efforts, the Group held its Saddle Up for Conservation benefit on Saturday, June 6, at The Bridge in Bridgehampton. 

“For more than 50 years, the Group has been a regional leader and watchdog of the planning, land use, and zoning decisions that ultimately shape our East End landscape,” shared Group president Bob DeLuca. “Through this work, we have mobilized an informed community that is willing to turn good ideas into lasting action in defense of our local environment, and the results have been nothing less than outstanding.”

This year, the Group honored board chairman Katherine Leahy Birch for her nearly 20-year service and leadership. Birch has been a leader for the Group and its work since she first joined the board of directors in 2008. She became the board chairman in 2015.

“Katherine Birch is by any measure, a leader’s, leader,” DeLuca shared. “Her dedication, passion and conviction to the Group’s work and the future of our East End environment are as much an inspiration to those within the organization, as they are a model for successful and effective non-profit leadership.”