Trust & Collaboration Key to Future of Mass. State Parks
Trust & Collaboration Key to Future of Massachusetts State Parks
Former DCR Stewardship Council member encourages public participation, engagement with council, state agency
Photo Credit: David Haigh
Alvin Reynolds served on the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Stewardship Council from 2018-2021. A graduate of Notre Dame and Boston College Law, he works as the Executive Director of Atlantic Global Risk’s Boston office and lives in Lynn with his wife and daughter.
Alvin was one of the Council’s more popular and outspoken members, serving as the Policy and Operations Subcommittee Chair. He led the Council review of the 2003 enabling legislation that created the Stewardship Council and showed a particular passion for keeping public resources open and affordable to all who use them. Both concerns were and are tantamount to the work of the DCR Special Commission, which had just begun its work and was the backdrop to our conversation.
We conducted this interview in the spring. COVID vaccinations were now available to the adult...