Cooperative Extension's Karen Bennett receives 2016 UNH award for public service

Friday, December 16, 2016

Karen P. Bennett, of and the department ofnatural resources and the environment in the , received the 2016 UNH Faculty Excellence Award for Public Service. She isthe first UNH Extension staff personto receive the honor.

A forester,Bennett has been described as the thread that holds theforestry community together.

“Part of the reason I like what I do is that I have the opportunity to interact with these great professionals, these great organizations, and in partnering with them, we’re able to achieve our mission more easily and more readily,” Bennett says.