Nashoba Publishing 10/9/09: Harvard Conservation Trust hires first executive director. The Harvard Conservation Trust has selected Marylynn Gentry to be the first executive director in its 36-year history.

Gentry has spent the last 15 years in the land protection field. She is a board member of the Sudbury Valley Trustees, a regional land trust based in Sudbury, where she served as president for the last four years. A Wayland resident, Gentry has volunteered on her town’s Conservation Commission and Community Preservation Committee.