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Through the second half of the 20th century, as Hotchkiss added both buildings and acreage, landscape design on the campus was largely project-specific. Until the landscape architects Towers/Golde entered the scene as consultants on the 2001 Master Plan, there was no presiding landscape designer, only a growing staff of groundskeepers. At the same time there was a growing awareness of the land as an educational resource, a legacy, and an exhaustible treasure. The 2001 Master Plan not only recommended improvements in the formal landscape (views, stately qualities, traffic corridors, social space, parking space), it also signaled new approaches to the school’s physical setting. A Landscape Committee of students, faculty, staff,
and trustees, became, significantly, the Committee on Conservation and Environment (popularly CC&E), with three offshoots: an Arboretum Committee, inspired by Tom Brokaw ’64 and aided by Henry Flint ’65 and Lyn Mattoon, a former faculty member and wife of former Head of School Skip Mattoon; a Beeslick Brook Woods Stewardship Committee, charged with implementing a 2005 study made by a unit of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; and the Fairfield Farms Committee. This last group provides oversight of the former Blum Farm, a 260-acre cattle-breeding expanse acquired by Hotchkiss in 2004; in 2010, the main house, outbuildings, and an additional 17 acres were acquired. The open fields and woodland of
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