Initiatives List

Zuni Mountains Collaborative

The Zuni Mountains Collaborative is a network of businesses, land management agencies, scientists, residents, and tribes working together to improve the ecological and economic resiliency of the Zuni Mountains in west-central New Mexico. The Collaborative works closely with Cibola National Forest on the Zuni Mountains Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) project. Zuni Mountain CFLRP’s needs statement: Ninety percentof the proposed landscape is classified as fire regime condition class III. The high fire risk also affects the state-endangered Zuni Bluehead Sucker which is endemic to the landscape. The most significant restoration needs include restoring ecosystem structure, composition, processes, and hydrologic function; increasing forest resiliency to pests,pathogens, and climate change; and stabilizinglocal restoration oriented businesses.

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Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area

The Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area will conserve, enhance, and interpret the natural and cultural resources of the community through collaboration and partnerships.

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Yellowstone River Compact Commission

The Yellowstone River Compact Commission (YRCC) is a three member commission charged with apportioning the waters of the Yellowstone River and its tributaries. The Compact was entered into by Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming to:

  • provide for an equitable division and apportionment of the waters of the Yellowstone River and its tributaries.
  • encourage the beneficial development and use of the Basin’s waters, recognizing the great importance of water for irrigation that would arise from future projects or programs for the regulation, control,and use of water in the Yellowstone River Basin.
  • further intergovernment cooperation and remove causes of controversy over distribution and use of water.

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Yellowstone Business Partnership

The Yellowstone Business Partnership (YBP) is an organization of businesses in the Yellowstone-Teton region, an area encompassing 25 counties in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Our 190+ members are dedicated to preserving a healthy environment and shaping a prosperous and sustainable economy for communities of the Yellowstone-Teton region. The Partnership promotes scientific understanding, regional dialogue and collaborative approaches to resolving our region’s most complex socioeconomic and natural resource challenges.

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) is a joint Canada-US not-for-profit organization that seeks to preserve and maintain the wildlife, native plants, wilderness and natural processes of the mountainous region from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon Territory. Y2Y takes a scientific approach to conservation and is recognized as one of the planet’s leading mountain conservation initiatives. Y2Y was officially established in 1997 and has two offices located in Canmore, Alberta and Bozeman, Montana. Combining science and stewardship, we seek to ensure that the world-renowned wilderness, wildlife, native plants, and natural processes of the Yellowstone to Yukon region continue to function as an interconnected web of life, capable of supporting all of its natural and human communities, for now and for future generations.

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Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative

The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) is a multi-partner, long-term, science-based program to assess, monitor, and enhance aquatic and terrestrial habitats at a landscape scale in southwest Wyoming.

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Freedom to Roam

Started by Patagonia clothing company, Freedom to Roam is an initiative of World Wildlife Fund that works to raise awareness about – and commitment to – protecting wildlife corridors. We focus our efforts in two regions:

  • Northern Great Plains: Here pronghorn antelopes, 220 butterfly species, bison and golden eagles move through a landscape undergoing extraordinary natural gas exploration and development.
  • Eastern Himalayas: This region shelters increasingly fragmented swaths of intact forest that allow tigers, elephants and rhinos to find food and mates, and avoid human conflicts.

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Willamette River Initiative

The purpose of the Willamette River Initiative is to achieve meaningful, measurable improvements in the health of the Willamette River and selected tributaries by 2019. We provide grants and other supportive services to the Willamette River restoration field in pursuit of this vision.

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Wildlands and Woodlands

Wildlands and Woodlands (W&W) is a regional vision that unites and inspires people across New England working to conserve New England’s natural heritage and to craft a sustainable future.

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Eastern Wildway

In 2015, The Wildlands Network formed the Eastern Wildway Network (EWN) to advance our efforts in eastern North America—more than 30 conservation leaders working to restore, reconnect, and protect regional habitats, and to help native species move safely through the landscape and adapt to climatic change. We’re also promoting the recovery of keystone species like wolves and cougars.

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White Clay Creek Wild and Scenic River

Since its official designation as a National Wild and Scenic River in 2000, the National Park Service, the White Clay Creek Steering Committee, and partner organizations have worked together to preserve watershed features that enhance water quality, natural resources and the over all quality of life.

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White River Partnership

The White River Partnership (WRP) is a membership-based, nonprofit organization formed in 1996 by a group of local people who shared common concerns about the long-term health of the White River and its watershed. The WRP envisions a White River watershed in which individuals and communities work together to make informed decisions that protect and improve water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, flood resilience, and recreational river access.

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Wheeling National Heritage Area

To lead community efforts to recognize, communicate and preserve Wheeling’s heritage.

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Western Wildway

Partner groups in the Western Wildway are gathered under the umbrella of the Western Wildway Network—a coalition of some of the most respected conservation organizations in western North America. Each member of the Western Wildway Network spearheads habitat connectivity projects within their respective home region. Collectively, these projects are designed to connect a series of conservation planning areas that form the vast, continental-scale wildlife corridor we call the Western Wildway.

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West Virginia Land Trust

WVLT’s mission is to protect land with significant conservation values through the use of conservation easements and real estate acquisitions, and by working with a statewide network of partners to build a passionate land conservation movement in the state.

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Western Slope Conservation Center

The NFRIA-WSERC Conservation Center is a 35-year-old grassroots 501(c)3 nonprofit that works to build an aware and active community that protects, preserves and enhances the natural, human and economic resources of the North Fork of the Gunnison and Lower Gunnison Watersheds. The Conservation Center takes a community-directed, solution-focused approach to watershed restoration and river rehabilitation. Our 400 members include ranchers, academics, retired coal miners, farmers, orchardists, small business owners, artists and artisans.

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Western Regional Partnership

WRP provides a proactive and collaborative framework for senior-policy level Federal, State and Tribal leadership to identify common goals and emerging issues in the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah and to develop solutions that support WRP Partners and protect natural resources, while promoting sustainability, homeland security and military readiness.

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Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

To protect and restore exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations.

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Western New York Land Conservancy

To preserve our region’s irreplaceable natural environments, farms, forestlands, and open space in order to maintain wildlife habitat, economic resources, public recreation areas, and the unique scenic character of Western New York.

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Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool

The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool (CHAT) was developed to bring greater certainty and predictability to planning efforts by establishing a common starting point for discussing the intersection of development and wildlife. The tool is managed by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA). CHAT is designed to reduce conflicts and surprises while ensuring wildlife values are better incorporated into land use planning, particularly for large-scale linear projects. It is a non-regulatory tool and not intended for project-level approval.

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Western Native Trout Initiative

Restoring Western native trout populations will take a unified, collaborative effort among multiple state, federal, and local agencies plus private organizations, tribes, and individual landowners to be successful. The Western Native Trout Initiative was formed in 2005 to incorporate the best conservation strategies of existing ventures to save trout that many regard as icons of the American West. The Mission of the Western Native Trout Initiative is: “To serve as a key catalyst for the implementation of conservation or management actions, through partnerships and cooperative efforts, resulting in improved species status, improved aquatic habitats, and improved recreational opportunities for native trout anglers across western states.”

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Weiser-Little Salmon Headwaters (CFLRP)

Weiser-Little Salmon Headwaters CFLRP aims to restore a significant portion of ponderosa pine dominated forests to historic stand structure and function;  Restore habitat connectivity and habitat quality for aquatic species, improve water quality, Reduce overall open road density;  Restore a more natural fire return rate on the landscape;  Increase economic activity in Valley and Adams counties through biomass utilization, forestry and natural resource jobs.

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We Are the Arctic

Alaska Natives, communities of color, outdoor enthusiasts, veterans and conservation and religious leaders from across the U.S. are standing together to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Watershed Management Group

Watershed Management Group (WMG) develops community-based solutions to ensure the long-term prosperity of people and health of the environment. We provide people with the knowledge, skills, and resources for sustainable livelihoods. WMG envisions a world in which:

  • everyone has the natural resources they need while ensuring adequate resources for future generations through wise and creative management;
  • communities cooperatively and sustainably manage the natural resources within their watershed;
  • communities develop in concert with their environment, and the success of development is measured by the health of ecological systems, the prosperity of people, and the strength of communities.

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Washington County Habitat Conservation Plan

Washington County has prepared a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) anticipating that it will provide a comprehensive approach to preserving and protecting Mojave desert tortoise habitat in Washington County, while at the same time allowing controlled growth and development in those portions of desert tortoise habitat which are less essential to the species. A Steering Committee was established in 1990 which included representatives from government agencies, livestock interests, environmental organizations, recreation interests, land developers, and landowners to formulate this HCP. The Steering Committee was charged with creating a plan which allows development in certain areas of desert tortoise habitat while increasing the likelihood of recovery of the listed species.

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Watershed Agricultural Council

WAC holds a dual mission: to addresses surface-water quality through land conservation while supporting the economic viability of agriculture and forestry in the watershed region.

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Virginia Outdoors Foundation

To preserve Virginia’s shared natural and cultural resources for future generations.

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Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust

To conserve rural lands which will best preserve the farms, forests, fisheries, and heritage of Virginia’s Eastern Shore for the benefit of future generations

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Valley Conservation Council

To promote land use that sustains the farms, forests, open spaces, and cultural heritage of the Valley of Virginia.

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US National Park Service National Heritage Areas Program

National Heritage Areas are places where historic, cultural, and natural resources combine to form cohesive, nationally important landscapes.  Unlike national parks, National Heritage Areas are large lived-in landscapes. Consequently, National Heritage Areas entities collaborate with communities to determine how to make heritage relevant to local interests and needs.

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Utah Partners for Conservation and Development

UtahPCD is a unique partnership of several natural resource oriented agencies and organizations committed to providing solutions to conservation issues. From Federal agency representation and State leadership, to local coordinators on the ground, the UtahPCD members work together to leverage resources and increase effectiveness.

US National Park Service National Natural Landmarks Program

The National Natural Landmarks Program recognizes and encourages the conservation of sites that contain outstanding biological and geological resources.  Sites are designated by the Secretary of the Interior for their condition, illustrative character, rarity, diversity, and value to science and education.  The National Park Service administers the program and works cooperatively with landowners, managers and partners to promote conservation and appreciation of our nation’s natural heritage.

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Scaling Up: U.S. National Park Service

Scaling Up: Collaborative Approaches to Large Landscape Conservation

Science and experience show that the resources national parks are set aside to preserve are affected by conditions beyond their boundaries. Yellowstone National Park, for example, encompasses 2 million acres, but less than 10 percent of the greater ecosystem required to support viable populations of its wildlife. From this, the oldest national park, to the newest conservation initiative—Colorado Plateau Dark Skies Cooperative formed to protect natural darkness and starry skies—the National Park Service is scaling up conservation across large landscapes.

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Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Program

Founded in 1992, the Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Program is a community-driven partnership. Landowners voluntarily work together with local, state, and federal partners who share a vision for common-sense, scientifically sound protection and restoration of our waters. We collaborate to improve habitat for salmon and resident fish while respecting and balancing the needs of irrigated agriculture and strengthening the local economy.

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Upper Raritan Watershed Association

URWA’s mission is to ensure the protection of the natural resources of the Upper Raritan Watershed through education, advocacy, land preservation and stewardship.

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Upper Niobrara Compact

The major purposes of this compact are to provide for an equitable division or apportionment of the available surface waters supply of the upper Niobrara River basin between the states; to provide for obtaining information or groundwater and underground water flow necessary for apportioning the underground flow by supplement to this compact; to remove all causes, present and future which might lead to controversies; and to promote interstate comity.

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Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area

To illuminate the diverse, rich identity of the Upper Housatonic River Valley region and to preserve and promote its historical, cultural, and natural resources.

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Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Plan

Partners of the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program are recovering four species of endangered fish in the Colorado River and its tributaries in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming while water use and development continues to meet human needs in compliance with interstate compacts and applicable federal and state laws.

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Upper Colorado River Compact

Apportions water to each state in the Upper Basin. Upper Colorado River Commission consists of one governor-appointed commissioner from each state and one commisioner appointed by the President; this commission oversees implementation.

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Upland Headwaters Alliance

A regional collaboration of area conservation organizations in western Maine working on landscape-scale projects to protect lands and waters essential to preserving the contiguous ecosystem of our common region.

University of Montana / University of Calgary Transboundary Initiative

Since 1999, the Environmental Studies Program of the University of Montana has joined with the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary to offer the Transboundary Planning, Policy and Management Initiative. This graduate program offers student research and internship support, shared courses and faculty exchange to explore and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to manage across domestic or international administrative boundaries.

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Uncompahgre Plateau (CFLRP)

The vision of the Uncompahgre Plateau CFLRP is to enhance the resiliency, diversity and, productivity of the native ecosystem on the Uncompahgre Plateau using best available science and collaboration.

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Two Countries, One Forest

Two Countries, One Forest is a major Canadian-U.S. collaborative of conservation organizations, researchers, foundations and conservation-minded individuals. Our international community is focused on protection, conservation and restoration of forests and natural heritage from New York to Nova Scotia, across the Northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion. To work for the transformation of parks, refuges, and forests across the Northern Appalachian Acadian ecoregion into a living, breathing ecosystem for species, plant and animal, large and small.

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Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust

To help increase awareness and appreciation of the Tug Hill region through educational efforts, field trip & special events and to help retain the forest, farm, recreation and wild lands of the region through voluntary, private land protection efforts.

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Tug Hill Commission

The purpose of the commission is to enable local governments, private organizations, and individuals to shape the future of the Tug Hill region, and to demonstrate and communicate ways that this can be done by other rural areas.  Commission programs are geared toward the conservation and productive use of the natural resources of the region, strengthening the long-term economy, employment, cultural and social resources, and the general well-being of the rural communities.

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Tongue River Initiative

Envisioned and initiated by the Sheridan Community Land Trust (SCLT), the Tongue River Initiative (TRI) is a partnership between SCLT, the Sheridan County Conservation District, and The Nature Conservancy of NE Wyoming. The mission of the TRI is to maintain and enhance the current agricultural char- acter, the wildlife habitat, and the natural aesthetic values of the Tongue River Valley.

The Rich Coast Project

We use community storytelling, digital archiving, and research and education to promote and support rights to land and culture.

We are dedicated to protecting the land rights and cultural heritage of the people of the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Our goal is to assist the community of Caribe Sur in growing a living public archive and making information about their history and rights more easily accessible both within and outside the community.

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The Pittsburgh-to-Harrisburg Main Line Canal Greenway

To facilitate a continuous land-and water-based recreation system that serves as a connectivity and unification tool for local governments and organizations wishing to create recreation, heritage, environmental, educational, and economic development projects that maximize the quality of life for Pennsylvania residents.

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The Borderlands Project

Launched in 2003, The Borderlands Project aims to build greater awareness for the unique assets of the rural area that spans the CT-RI border, explore the shared threats and opportunities that this region faces, and foster a culture of learning and collaboration across this bi-state, multi-town, and multi-scale region.

 

Texas Coastal Conservation Initiative

The Texas Coastal Conservation Initiative led by Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) leverages private investment to maximize conservation of Texas’ magnificent coastal resources following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Tamalpais Lands Collaborative

To unite resources and expertise, coordinate plans, and care for the mountain in a more holistic manner, the four public agencies responsible for Mt. Tam (California State Parks, Marin County Parks, Marin Municipal Water District, and the National Park Service) have teamed with the nonprofit Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy to form the Tamalpais Lands Collaborative.

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Tahoe Regional Planning Agency

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency was the first bi-state regional environmental planning agency in the country.

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Swan Ecosystem Center

Swan Ecosystem Center (SEC) is a nonprofit community group in the Swan Valley of northwestern Montana. People with diverse perspectives learn about the watershed and are involved in land management on public and private land. SEC helps people work together to sustain the valley’s natural resources and rural and wild characteristics. Our Mission:  Maintain the Swan Valley’s unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

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Susquehanna Greenway Partnership

To developing and sustaining the Susquehanna Greenway to connect communities and enrich lives through enhanced recreation, healthy living, economic prosperity and environmental stewardship.

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Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area

To raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the Susquehanna Gateway region and to preserve, enhance, and celebrate its most significant heritage assets as economically vital attractions for residents and visitors alike.

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Sun River Watershed Group

The Sun River Watershed Group is a consensus driven, multi-stakeholder entity that strives to promote community based efforts that will preserve our quality of life and livelihoods while promoting and enhancing the natural resources of our watershed.

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Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Council

To preserve the free-flowing condition of the rivers and to protect their immediate environments for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.

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Staying Connected Initiative

To safeguard wide ranging and forest dwelling wildlife such as bear, moose, lynx, marten and bobcat from the impacts of habitat fragmentation and climate change by maintaining and restoring landscape connections across the Northern Appalachians region.

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Southwestern Crown Collaborative

Solutions for the ailing health of our forests and communities are achieved when people cooperate and figure it out together.  That’s what the Southwestern Crown Collaborative is all about – local collaboration that gets the job done. Our collaborative was stitched together by neighbors and new allies who saw a clear need to bolster rural economies and make our forests healthier in the long-term.  Our partners work well together because they are pragmatic, value science, and work to engage a diversity of viewpoints.  Our growing list of members and participants includes economic development firms, conservation groups, federal and state land agencies, timber groups, land trusts, and the University of Montana.

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Southwest Utah Planning Authorities Council

In 1994, then-Governor Michael O. Leavitt established the Southwest Utah Planning Authorities Council or “SUPAC”.  The Council’s geographic area of interest is all of Garfield, Beaver, Iron, Kane and Washington counties in southwest Utah. The purpose of SUPAC is to: Minimize duplication of efforts, expenditures and proceedings with respect to the planning processes of the participants; Facilitate the establishment of shared goals and strategies for resource management and development; Promote awareness and understanding of the legal requirements and objectives which motivate the planning processes of the various participants; Enhance intergovernmental cooperation and public participation in addressing issues which relate to or affect the stewardships of more than one participant; Serve as a non-binding forum for the discussion and consensual resolution of issues, grievances, misunderstandings and disputes among the participants; and serve as a clearinghouse for the exchange of information relevant to the planning processes of the Participants.

Southwest Seed Partnership

Developing native plant materials to support habitat restoration and conservation in the Southwest

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Southwest Jemez Mountains (CFLRP)

Improve the resilience of ecosystems to recover from wildfires and other natural disturbance events in order to sustain healthy forests and watersheds for future generations. Objectives:
Reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfireand; restore natural fire regimes; Increase forest diversity and old growth characteristics; Improve fish and wildlife habitat; Improvewater quality, and watershed functions; Mitigate climate change impacts; Preserve heritage resources; Utilize woody by-product

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Southern Sierra Conservation Cooperative

The mission of the Southern Sierra Conservation Cooperative (SSCC) is to work in concert to make the best use of each partner’s resources and efforts to conserve the regional native biodiversity and key ecosystem functions within the Southern Sierra Nevada Ecoregion (SSN) in the face of accelerated local and global agents of change.

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Southern Sierra Partnership

The Southern Sierra Partnership (SSP) is a coalition of business and conservation organizations working to protect land, livelihoods and communities in the Southern Sierra and Southern San Joaquin Valley.  We serve a seven million acre region stretching from the Valley floor to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, including significant portions of Fresno, Tulare and Kern Counties.

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Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative

For the Southern Rockies LCC, the initial partnership will be between Reclamation, the Service, the U.S Geological Survey, other federal agencies, states, tribes, non-government organizations (NGO’s), universities, and other entities that will provide science and decision-support tools to inform management decisions that will protect and conserve resources necessary to meet the complementary trust responsibilities of the partners involved. In time, the LCC is envisioned as a selfdirected partnership managed by a steering committee comprised of interested partners with a shared resource conservation focus.

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Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project (Now Rocky Mountain Wild)

We envision a Southern Rockies ecoregion that is whole – a vast, connected landscape where native species thrive and natural ecological processes maintain a healthy balance. Such a holistic vision transcends political and human-made boundaries and addresses large landscapes on the ecosystem and ecoregional level. We must start healing the wounds that degrade the health of the ecoregion by restoring critical species and ecological processes to the land – by rewilding the Southern Rockies. Rewilding emphasizes large core wild areas and functional connectivity across the landscape; the importance of top-down regulation to healthy ecosystems, which includes the crucial role of large carnivores and keystone species; and the importance of natural processes such as wildfire and predation that are critical to sustaining functioning ecosystems. To heal the Southern Rockies, we must establish a network of connected wildlands that facilitate the flow of life across the landscape. This wildlands network will include varying levels of protection, from core wilderness, to responsibly managed compatible-use areas, with wildlife corridors that link them all across the ecoregion. The wildlands network for the Southern Rockies connects to other wildlands networks in a north to south MegaLinkage through the spine of the North American continent. These efforts are coordinated by the Wildlands Project, an international conservation group working to restore and protect the natural heritage of North America.

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Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative

The mission of the Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative (SOFRC) is to increase the restoration of federal forests in Southwest Oregon’s Rogue River Basin. We work to improve forest health and resilience, reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire to forests and communities, and strengthen regional forest restoration manufacturing and workforce capacity.

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Southern Nevada Agency Partnership

SNAP is a partnership of stewardship professionals from the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the USDA Forest Service who work together to coordinate the protection, conservation and use of the public lands of Southern Nevada.

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South Platte River Compact

Divides the allocation of water in the South Platte River between Colorado and Nebraska. Colorado delivers 120 cfs to Nebraska during the irrigation season, and receives full use of the river in the non-irrigation season. Compact is administered by state engineers.

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Southern Madison Heritage Trust

To conserve, for public benefit, natural resources in and around the townships of Brookfield, Eaton, Georgetown, Hamilton, Lebanon and Madison in Madison County, NY.

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South Park National Heritage Area

The South Park area has long been revered as a nearly pristine example of well-protected natural resources and existing historic mining and ranching structures. After many years of work to achieve the designation, in March 2009 Congress approved and President Barack Obama signed a bill designating the South Park National Heritage Area – one of less than 50 such congression ally designated areas in the United States that represent the history of the country. The people of the South Park believe strongly in the need to protect our abundant cultural and natural resources while encouraging others to enjoy them with us.

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South Mountain Partnership

The South Mountain Partnership brings people together across geo-political and sectorial boundaries to highlight the importance of our landscape and take action to secure its future.

A Pennsylvania Conservation Landscape — we are a broad coalition of partners collaborating to conserve Landscape Resources to enrich the quality of life and sense of place of the South Mountain region’s citizens and communities.

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South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative

What can we do to sustain our lands, waters and cultural treasures today and for future generations? The South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative is a partnership that brings together federal, state and local organizations across six states to answer that critical question. Together, we’re creating a blueprint for action.

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Sourland Conservancy

The Sourland Conservancy (previously Sourland Planning Council) is a non-profit organization working to protect the ecological integrity, historical resources and special character of the Sourland Mountain region.

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Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan

The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan is guiding regional efforts to conserve the best lands and most precious resources for future generations of Pima County residents to enjoy. The Plan combines short-term actions with long-range land-use decisions in Pima County, one of the most biologically diverse counties in the U.S. From cactus-studded deserts to conifer forests, the diverse landscape of Pima County is the home to a million residents from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and contains a rich diversity of plant and animal life.

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Snake River Compact

Purpose: to provide for the most efficient allocation of Snake River water for multiple uses; reduce future conflict; promote interstate comity; and promote joint action for flood control.

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Sky Island Alliance

Sky Island Alliance is a grassroots organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of the rich natural heritage of native species and habitats in the Sky Island region of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. We work with volunteers, scientists, land owners, public officials, and government agencies to establish protected areas, restore healthy landscapes, and promote public appreciation of the region’s unique biological diversity.

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Shortgrass Prairie Conservation Initiative

The Shortgrass Prairie Initiative is a MOU between CDOT, FHWA, USFWS, state natural resource agencies and The Nature Conservancy that commits the participants to work to mitigate anticipated impacts to the shortgrass prairie ecosystem from CDOT projects identified in the 20 year transportation plan in advance of their construction.

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Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District

To protect this national resource to ensure that future generations will be able to explore the Valley’s Civil War heritage and more fully understand the impact of the Civil War on the American experience.

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Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area

To conserve, interpret and develop the historical, cultural, natural and recreational resources related to the industrial and cultural heritage of the Schuylkill River Valley.

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Selway-Middle Fork Clearwater (CFLRP)

The Clearwater Basin Collaborative, Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests, and other partners have produced a comprehensive restoration strategy which has been submitted for funding through the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. The proposal is a science-based approach designed to restore and maintain ecologi-cal conditions within the 1.4-million-acre Selway-Middle Fork ecosystem in Idaho. The Selway-Middle Fork area was selected because the needs are great. The area is identified as a top priority for restoration in national, regional, state and county plans and a forest subbasin assessment.

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Schuylkill Highlands Conservation Landscape Initiative

To forge a variety of partnerships to preserve, restore and enhance the natural, historic, cultural, and recreational resources while encouraging sustainable practices and compatible economic development to create healthy and vibrant communities.

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Schuylkill Action Network

To protect and improve the water resources and water quality of the Schuylkill River Watershed by “working in partnership with state agencies, local watershed organizations and land conservation organizations, businesses, academics, water suppliers, local and state governments, regional agencies, and the federal government to transcend regulatory and jurisdictional boundaries in the strategic implementation of protection measures.

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Schoodic to Schoodic Initiative

Maine Coast Heritage Trust is working in partnership with Frenchman Bay Conservancy to fulfill a regional conservation vision for a “Schoodic to Schoodic corridor”—a landscape-scale ecological corridor linking the State of Maine’s Donnell Pond Unit with the Schoodic District of Acadia National Park. Timely conservation of three key “stepping stones” of conserved land—Forbes Pond, Lower West Bay Pond, and West Bay Pond—is critical to realizing this vision.

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Scenic Hudson’s Saving the Land that Matters Most Campaign

Scenic Hudson’s campaign to Save the Land That Matters Most is a multi-year, collaborative effort with fellow land trusts, governments, individuals and businesses to protect lands of the highest scenic, ecological and agricultural significance throughout the Hudson Valley.

We’re working in collaboration with 16 fellow land trusts and government agencies to save ridgelines offering iconic views, forests and wetlands critical to maintaining the Hudson Valley’s extraordinary biological diversity and farmland essential to creating a sustainable “foodshed” for the region and New York City.

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Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network

The Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network is a region-wide and cross-sector collaboration of independent individuals and organizations who are committed to working together  to help cultivate a resilient, vibrant region where human and natural systems thrive for generations to come.

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Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area

The Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area, which includes more than 3,000 square miles of south-central Colorado, was dedicated August 29, 2009. The mission of the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area is to promote, preserve, protect,and interpret its profound historical, religious,environmental, geographic, geologic, cultural,and linguistic resources. These efforts will contribute to the overall national story, engender a spirit of pride and self-reliance, and create a legacy in the Colorado counties of Alamosa,Conejos and Costilla. With 11,000 years of documented human habitation, the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area is a crossroads of the centuries. Here a unique blend of Native American, Hispano and Anglo settlement is reflected in the diversity of the people, art and traditions. The geographic isolation of our high desert valley and the peoples’ enduring ties to the land have given rise to a rich cultural heritage and ensured its preservation. The area’s fertile cultural landscape is complemented by remarkable natural resources, including the mighty Rio Grande, majestic Rocky Mountain peaks, Great Sand Dunes National Park, National Wildlife Refuges, and the high mountain desert, all of which lend the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area an unparalleled beauty that offers a sense of retreat and a powerful source of inspiration for visitors.

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San Miguel Watershed Coalition

The San Miguel Watershed Coalition was formed 15 years ago to enable a collaborative forum for all residents, businesses, land owners, land managers and non-profit organizations to discuss and influence the future of the watershed. The mission of the Coalition is to advance the ecological health and promote the economic vitality of the watershed through the collaborative efforts of the entire community. Its ultimate goal is to realize a watershed that is healthy in every respect while offering a sustainable and quality lifestyle for all who live in it.

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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program

The purpose of the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program (Program) is to protect and recover endangered fishes in the San Juan River Basin while water development proceeds in compliance with all applicable Federal and State laws. Endangered species include the Colorado pikeminnow (formerly known as the Colorado squawfish), Ptychocheilus lucius, and the razorback sucker, Xyrauchen texanus. It is anticipated that actions taken under this Program will also provide benefits to other native fishes in the Basin and prevent them from becoming endangered in the future.

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Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent

The Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent is an ongoing forum to bring together people who care about this special place. It is based on the observation that the future of the Crown of the Continent is being shaped by over 100 government agencies, non-government organizations, and place-based partnerships. While these various initiatives operate somewhat independent of each other, the Roundtable provides a unique opportunity to connect people that share a common commitment to the region. Through workshops, forums, policy dialogues, and conferences, the Roundtable provides an opportunity to exchange ideas, build relationships, and explore opportunities to work together — to sustain the natural and cultural heritage of this remarkable landscape.

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Rocky Mountain Wild Connected Landscape Campaign

Rocky Mountain Wild was created by the merger of two of Colorado’s most trusted and effective conservation organizations, Center for Native Ecosystems and Colorado Wild. Recognizing the need to stem dramatic losses of native species and habitat, these organizations joined forces to protect, connect and restore wildlife and wild lands of our region.

The goal of our Connected Landscapes program is to address fragmentation by identifying and protecting key remaining habitats and restoring the linkages between them. Of special concern to Rocky Mountain Wild are the high-altitude wildlife linkage at Wolf Creek Pass, and the critical wildlife movement pathways that are severed by traffic and development along the I-70 Mountain Corridor.

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Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area

To identify, conserve, promote, and interpret the cultural, historic, recreational, and other resources associated with steel and steel-related industries.

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River to Lake Initiative

The River to Lake Initiative is a collaborative effort to conserve and restore our Flathead River and Lake natural heritage – excellent water quality, outstanding scenic and recreation values, abundant fish and wildlife, and prime farm land.

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River Spark Hudson-Mohawk Heritage Area

To pay tribute to the significant contribution this region made to the industrial development of New York State and the nation.

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Rio Grande Initiative

Founded in 1999 to help secure water for the future, the Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust (RiGHT) is the only local land trust that serves the entire San Luis Valley. As the community’s land trust, RiGHT is committed to working with private landowners, public agencies, and other conservation organizations to preserve the natural beauty and wildlife habitat of the area and to promote a sustainable agricultural way of life. RiGHT is leading The Rio Grande Initiative, a local initiative to protect the critical private lands along the Rio Grande and its major tributaries in the San Luis Valley, with over 25,000 acres protected as of 2015.

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Rio Grande Compact Commission

A water commission administers the Rio Grande Compact, which governs the obligations of Colorado and New Mexico to deliver water to downstream uses.

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Restore New Mexico

Restore New Mexico is an aggressive partnership launched in 2005 to restore the state’s grasslands, woodlands and riparian areas to a healthy and productive condition.

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Right Place Campaign

The Right Place Campaign is a project of the Vital Ground Foundation that is aimed at taking action to reverse loss of habitat and declining grizzly numbers in the northern Rockies.

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Resilient Lands and Waters Initiative

In 2014, Federal agencies, working together with states, tribes, and other partners, and working under the guidance of the Obama Administration’s Priority Agenda for Enhancing the Climate Resilience of America’s Natural Resources, designated seven Resilient Lands and Waters Partnerships across the country during the spring and summer of 2015. Partners identified ​the following ​seven Resilient Lands and Waters Partnerships across the country: California Headwaters, California’s North-Central Coast and Russian River Watershed, Crown of the Continent (northern Rocky Mountains), Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands (Lakes Huron & Erie), Hawaii (West Hawai’i, West Maui, and He’eia (O’ahu)), Puget Sound’s Snohomish River Watershed, and Southwest Florida.

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Republican River Compact Commission

Allocates waters in Republican River basin; administered by water commission.

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Rensselaer Plateau Alliance

To promote and facilitate the protection of the Rensselaer Plateau’s undeveloped and unfragmented forests.

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Regional Plan Association

Regional Plan Association improves the New York metropolitan region’s economic health, environmental sustainability and quality of life through research, planning and advocacy.

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Regional Conservation Partnership Network

We use the power of networking, innovation, and coordination to advance the pace and practice of large landscape conservation and stewardship in New England and Eastern New York. We make it easier for RCPs and regional partners to learn from each other, grow, and collaborate to achieve their missions.

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Raritan Piedmont Wildlife Habitat Partnership

RPWHP’s mission is to insure the prompt and effective implementation of the New Jersey State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP), in the Central Piedmont Plains.

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Quinnipiac River Watershed Association

Quinnipiac River Watershed Association’s Mission is to restore the Quinnipiac for the health and enjoyment of all citizens and communities along its reach, and to educate all students, families, individuals, businesses and governments to be informed stewards of the river.

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Quabbin to Cardigan Partnership

To conserve the Monadnock Highlands of north-central Massachusetts and western New Hampshire.

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Poultney-Mettowee Watershed Partnership

To bring together the efforts of citizens and organizations that share the common vision of conserving, protecting, and enhancing the natural and cultural resources of the watershed.

Powder River Basin Resource Council

Powder River Basin Resource Council: – The preservation and enrichment of Wyoming’s agricultural heritage and rural lifestyle – The conservation of Wyoming’s unique land, mineral, water, and clean air resources consistent with responsible use of those resources to sustain the livelihood of present and future generations. – The education and empowerment of Wyoming’s citizens to raise a coherent voice in the decisions that will impact their environment and lifestyle. Powder River Basin Resource Council is committed to empowerment of people through community organizing.  More than ever, it is crucial that Wyoming’s voice for responsible development, Powder River Basin Resource Council, be a part of the debate that will determine Wyoming’s future.

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Potomac Conservancy

To protect lands vital to the health, beauty, and enjoyment of the Potomac River and its tributaries.

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Pocono Forests and Waters Conservation Landscape Initiative

To conserve the natural environment and enhance the quality of life by sustaining vital natural resources.

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Plum Creek Native Fish Habitat Conservation Plan

Plum Creek Native Fish Habitat Conservation Plan.  This 30-year HCP applies to approximately 900,000 acres of Company land in Montana. This plan includes over 50 mitigation measures to address the needs of bull trout, westslope cutthroat, and other coldwater salmonid species. Management practices prescribed in the Native Fish HCP include road construction and maintenance, streamside timber harvest practices and restoration of riparian vegetation communities impacted by grazing.

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Platte River Recovery Implementation Program

In 1997, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and the Department of Interior formed a unique partnership with the goal of developing a shared approach for managing the Platte River. Water users from the three states and local and national conservation groups joined the effort. Together, these stakeholders developed an innovative approach for improving the management of the Platte — for the health of the ecosystem and the people that depend on it.The Platte River Recovery Implementation Program is the result of that planning effort. The Program is focused on implementing this shared vision for creating and maintaining habitats on the Platte.

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Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative is dedicated to the conservation of a landscape unparalleled in importance to a vast array of unique species whose populations are in steep decline. The Plains and Prairie Potholes LCC includes three main sub-units, the Prairie Pothole Region, Northern Great Plains, and the riparian corridors of several major river systems including the Missouri, the Yellowstone and the Red River of the North.

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Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership

To protect, restore, and monitor the health of the Hampton-Seabrook Estuary and the Great Bay Estuary.

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Pingree Forest Partnership

To manage the forests sustainably and while contributing to the forest economy of Maine.

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Piedmont Environmental Council

To safeguard the landscapes, communities, and heritage of the Piedmont by involving citizens in public policy and land conservation.

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Pequonnock River Initiative

The mission of the Pequonnock River Initiative is to protect and improve the water quality and quantity, habitat, and public enjoyment of the Pequonnock River and its watershed.

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Penobscot River Restoration Trust

To balance the environment, economy, and quality of life in Maine’s largest watershed.

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Pennsylvania Wilds Initiative

To enhance the visitor experiences in this region, while protecting and conserving these treasured natural resources.

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Pennsylvania Highlands Greenway

To promote the PA Highlands as a recreation destination; to develop the PA Highlands Trail Network; to empower municipalities to make sound land use decisions; and to help increase the conservation of important lands.

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Pecos River Compact Commission

The major purposes of this Compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Pecos River; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; to make secure and protect present development within the states; to facilitate the construction of works for: (a) the salvage of water, (b) the more efficient use of water, and (c) the protection of life and property from floods. Implemented by water commission.

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Peconic Estuary Program

To promote a holistic approach to improving and maintaining the Peconic Estuary and its watershed.

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Passaic River Coalition

As guardians of the Passaic River, the Passaic River Coalition (PRC) gives assistance and stewardship for the preservation and protection of over 1,000 miles of waterways from the headwater streams in the Highlands of New York and New Jersey to the urbanized lower Passaic valley and Newark Bay. Only watershed-wide planning for environmentally sensitive land use will assure quality water supply for the future.

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Partnership for the Delaware Estuary

The mission of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary is to lead collaborative and creative efforts to protect and enhance the Delaware Estuary and its tributaries for current and future generations.

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Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation

The Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation (the Gulf Partnership) is a coalition of more than 20 local, regional and national conservation organizations that work in the Gulf Coast region within the five Gulf of Mexico states – Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Our mission is to increase the pace, quality and permanence of voluntary land and water conservation within the coastal region.

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Pacific Northwest Coast Landscape Conservation Design

The North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative and US Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 has initiated a Landscape Conservation Design initiative for the Lower Columbia River and adjacent coastal shorelines of Oregon and Washington – “Pacific Northwest Coast Landscape Conservation Design.” This partner-driven, multi-stakeholder effort is an integrated, collaborative, and holistic process that is grounded in the interdisciplinary science of landscape ecology, the mission-oriented science of conservation biology, and the art of design. The process results in a science-based, spatially-explicit product that identifies targets of interest to partners, articulates measurable objectives; assesses current and projected landscape patterns and processes; and identifies a desired future condition, conservation and development trade-offs, and implementation strategies.

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Ozark Partnership

The Ozark Partnership seeks to help sustain the biologically rich, nationally-significant natural resources of the Ozarks. Our aim is to improve effectiveness and efficiency of science and management through the cooperative work of State, Federal and nongovernmental organizations that conduct natural resource research and management in the Ozarks. We also welcome private citizens and landowners.

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Otsego Land Trust

To preserve the distinctive rural character of the Otsego Region in Central New York by maintaining the natural and cultural legacy handed down through generations.

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Orange County Headwaters Project

To help landowners maintain the working landscape by combining the strong grassroots commitment to conservation with the experience, knowledge, and leadership of respected partner organizations so that landowners can conserve their lands more cost-effectively.

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Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership

To conserve, restore, and enhance efforts on priority habitat for fish and mussels in the watersheds of the Ohio River Basin for the benefit of the public.

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Oil Region National Heritage Area

To increase the prosperity and population of the Oil Region through the preservation, promotion, development and support of destinations within the Oil Region. Whether they are historical, educational, natural, recreational, residential, commercial or industrial destinations, we must entice people to live, work, learn and play in ‘the valley that changed the world.’

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Oblong Land Conservancy

The Oblong Land Conservancy, a land trust, is dedicated to the conservation of appropriate open space resources in the towns of Pawling, Dover and their environs. Its mission: Through engagement with the community, maintain the natural resources of the Harlem Valley, to include wildlife habitats, water quality, agricultural lands and scenic vistas.

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Northwest Power and Conservation Council

The Northwest Power and Conservation Council develops and maintains a regional power plan and a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest’s environment and energy needs. Our three tasks:

  • develop a 20-year electric power plan that will guarantee adequate and reliable energy at the lowest economic and environmental cost to the Northwest,
  • develop a program to protect and rebuild fish and wildlife populations affected by hydropower development in the Columbia River Basin,
  • educate and involve the public in the Council’s decision-making processes.

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Northwest Connections

Northwest Connections conducts long term ecological monitoring efforts which 1) provide important levels of information on wildlife and habitat linkages within and across the Swan Valley, 2) employ local people, 3) provide field-based learning opportunities for students and visitors, 4) promote an ethic of land stewardship and the conservation of natural resources for future generations. With our assistance, land owners and managers have current site specific information on how their properties connect to surrounding acreages; community members have functional ways to contribute their knowledge, ideas and energy to the task of ecosystem based management; students get into the field and learn about ecology and environmental issues first hand; and a diversity of citizens have the opportunity to explore their own connection to natural processes. NwC was initiated and is staffed by local community members. As an organization we believe that local knowledge adds depth and breadth to our scientific and educational work. We are attempting to pioneer a ‘new’ way of looking at ecosystems: one that recognizes and appreciates the variability in nature and therefore the importance of information which is site specific and which is collected over an ample period of time. We also believe that by including our rural community in the long term conservation of this place, we will build bridges between state and federal level conservation policies and the rural people who live, work and depend upon these lands.

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Northwest Basin and Range Landscape Conservation Design

The Northwest Basin and Range Synthesis is a landscape conservation science, communication, and planning project established in October 2015. Our vision is a sustainable landscape for people and wildlife through shared goals, science, and action.

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Northern Sierra Partnership

NSP is a campaign to conserve, restore and enhance the northern Sierra Nevada region and its communities.

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Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area

Stretching from Albuquerque to the Colorado border, the heritage area includes Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Taos counties. It encompasses a mosaic of cultures, including the Jicarilla Apache, 8 Pueblo tribes, and the descendants of Spanish colonists who settled in the area beginning in 1598, a generation before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock.

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Northern Neck Land Conservancy

To preserve the rural heritage of the Northern Neck by conserving its lands, waters, economies and culture and to leave a legacy for future generations so that they may live, work, and savor a quiet, gracious community.

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Northern Prairies Land Trust

The mission of Northern Prairies Land Trust is to enable private landowners in South Dakota and Nebraska to conserve lands for habitat preservation, agriculture, ranching, water resource protection and enhancement, and cultural and historical protection.

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North Quabbin Regional Landscape Partnership

Working together, we save valuable ecologically, historically, and culturally significant lands.

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North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative promotes development, coordination, and dissemination of science to inform landscape level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of a changing climate and related stressors.

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Niagara River Greenway Commission

To continue and advance the state’s commitment to the preservation, enhancement and development of the world-renowned scenic, natural, historic, cultural and recreational resources of the Niagara River Greenway Commission while continuing to emphasize economic development activities and remaining consistent with the tradition of municipal home rule.

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North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative

To have all partners work together to sustain landscapes capable of maintaining abundant, diverse, and healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants.

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Niagra National Heritage Area

To encourage public and private partners to join hands to foster tourism, education, and programming initiatives that highlight for visitors and residents alike important events and sites related to American history and culture and the role of hydroelectric power.

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Newfound Watershed Master Plan

To envision a Newfound Watershed where quality of life and economic vitality continue to be fostered by stewardship and sustainable use of the Watershed’s natural resources, where land uses and development are balanced with conservation, and where the current water quantity and water quality have been maintained.

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New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program

To provides a forum to develop and implement actions that improve the health of the Estuary by convening a partnership of interested stakeholders, utilizing sound science to analyze the issues, and working to carry out recommendations that are environment

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New River Valley Green Infrastructure Initiative

To protect and conserve the region’s unique natural, agricultural, and cultural characteristics for current and future generations through education and the application of sound science to address natural resource management challenges.

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New River Land Trust

To conserve farmland, forests, open spaces, and historic places in Virginia’s New River region.

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New Jersey Pinelands Commission

To promote orderly development of the Pinelands so as to preserve, protect, and enhance the significant and unique natural, ecological, agricultural, archaeological, historical, scenic, cultural and recreational resources of the Pinelands.

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New Jersey Highlands Water Policy and Planning Council

The New Jersey Highlands Council is a 15-member appointed body tasked with implementation of the New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act of 2004.

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New Jersey Conservation Blueprint

The Nature Conservancy and New Jersey Conservation Foundation have teamed up with Rowan University and a consortium of 21 conservation-focused groups both governmental and non-profits, to develop a shared, living blueprint of lands to be protected in the next few decades. Together, we have charted a blueprint of conservation priorities to ensure a healthy New Jersey for future generations. This living blueprint is displayed on Rowan University’s NJ MAP, an online, interactive mapping tool that allows everyone to work with GIS data in a way that is easy to understand.

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New Jersey Highlands Coalition

To advocate for the protection, preservation, and enhancement of the water, forests, wildlife, farmland and other natural, historic and cultural resources of the New Jersey Highlands, and to enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities.

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Nevada Land Conservancy

The Nevada Land Conservancy is dedicated to preserving and protecting special places and open spaces in Nevada for future generations. With the help of members, volunteers, land owners, businesses and government agencies, we protect special places through acquisition, easement, open space planning, outreach and environmental restoration.

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New Hampshire Wildife Action Plan

How does NH Fish and Game and its many conservation partners around the state prioritize actions for wildlife and land management? How do you, as a member of your community and a landowner, become part of the movement to conserve and maintain New Hampshire’s natural environment? The entire state has a plan that guides conservation actions, so that you, your community, university researchers, biologists, land trusts, and other organizations are all working towards NH’s most important conservation goals. This is the New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan.

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NeighborSpace of Baltimore County, Inc.

Strategic conservation plan for the area within Baltimore County’s growth line

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Nebraska Natural Legacy Project

The mission of the Natural Legacy Project: is to refine and implement a blueprint for conserving Nebraska’s flora, fauna and natural habitats through the proactive, voluntary conservation actions of partners, communities and individuals.

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Cape Cod National Seashore

To preserve vital elements of the Cape’s character, including flora and fauna, physiographic conditions, historic sites and structures, cultural heritage, and other unique natural and cultural features.

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National Forest Foundation

Our Mission: Engage Americans in promoting the health and public enjoyment of our National Forests.

National Forest Foundation works with collaborative landscape conservation efforts all over the country.

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National Fish Habitat Partnership

Our mission is to protect, restore and enhance the nation’s fish and aquatic communities through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation and improve the quality of life for the American people.

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National Coal Heritage Area

To preserve, protect, and interpret lands, structures, and communities associated with the coal mining heritage of West Virginia.

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Nashua River Watershed Association

To work for a healthy ecosystem with clean water and open spaces for human and wildlife communities, where people work together to sustain mutual economic and environmental well-being in the Nashua River watershed.

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Narragansett Bay Estuary Program

To protect and preserve Narragansett Bay and its watershed through partnerships that conserve and restore natural resources, enhance water quality and promote community involvement.

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Mystic River Watershed Association

MyRWA is a community-based, private, nonprofit organization. MyRWA is an “umbrella group” that represents many of the groups that work on behalf of the Watershed and the people who live there.

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Myakka Island Conservation Corridor

Ambitious goal to save critical properties totaling more than 8,000 acres in the Myakka River watershed

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Mt. Agamenticus to the Sea Conservation Initiative

To conserve a mosaic of critical lands, waterways, and working landscapes in the six-town area between the Tatnic Hills of Wells and Gerrish Island in Kittery Point.

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Moosehead Forest Project

To permanently conserve more than 400,000 acres near Moosehead Lake and create an unprecedented corridor of conservation across Maine’s North Woods.

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Montezuma Land Conservancy

Montezuma Land Conservancy partners with our community to connect with, conserve, and enhance southwest Colorado’s agricultural, scenic, and recreational lands and wildlife habitat for today and future generations.

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Montana Watershed Coordination Council

MWCC has been cultivating broad-based support for community driven approaches to managing complex land and water issues for over eighteen years as the statewide organization representing each of more than 60 watershed groups. Our mission is to enhance, conserve, and protect natural resources and sustain the high quality of life in Montana for present and future generations using a collaborative watershed approach.

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Monadnock Community Conservation Partnership

The Monadnock Community Conservation Partnership’s goal is to help protect more of the Monadnock Region’s natural resources and rural character before development pressure and land prices overwhelm the region.

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Mojave Desert Ecosystem Program

The mission of the Mojave Desert Ecosystem Program is to provide government agencies throughout the Mojave Desert with solutions and services to better accomplish their assigned tasks.

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Mohawk River Basin Program

To act as coordinator of basinwide activities related to conserving, preserving, and restoring the environmental quality of the Mohawk River and its watershed, while helping to manage the resource for a sustainable future.

To promote integrated and coordinated management of the many environmental and cultural resources of the river and its watershed

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Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee

The Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee (MRRIC) serves as a forum where people with diverse interests in the Missouri River basin can collaborate on recommendations for implementing the Missouri River Recovery Program.

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Mexican Treaty on the Rio Grande, Tijuana, and Colorado Rivers

This Treaty governs how Mexico and the United States share the Colorado River. The US is obligated to provide 1.5 million acre-feet per year to Mexico. If the US falls short, then the Upper and Lower Basin States must use less water to compensate.

Metro Denver Nature Alliance

Metro Denver Nature Alliance (MetroDNA) is an emerging alliance of organizations with a compelling vision: Within one generation, the Metro Denver area will be a thriving place for both people and nature.

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MassConn Sustainable Forest Partnership

To identify, protect, and enhance the forested landscape of the central Massachusetts and Connecticut area.

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Maurice Partnership Wild & Scenic Rivers

To protect the watershed of the Maurice River and the region known as Down Jersey, thereby enabling current and future generations to enjoy the environmental, recreational, cultural, and scenic resources of this Wild & Scenic global treasure.

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Massachusetts Bays Program

To protect and enhance the coastal health and heritage of Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays. It aims to maintain and improve the ecological integrity of the Massachusetts Bays.

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Maryland Coastal Bays Program

To protect and conserve the waters and surrounding watershed of Maryland’s coastal bays and to enhance their ecological values and sustainable use for both present and future generations.

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Malpai Borderlands Group

We are a grassroots, landowner-driven nonprofit organization attempting to implement ecosystem management on nearly one million acres of virtually unfragmented open-space landscape in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.

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Mahoosuc Initiative

To protect the Mahoosuc region’s most valuable assets.

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Madrean Pilot Area

Transboundary Madrean Watersheds – Pilot Area for Landscape Conservation Design for the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative. The Pilot Area includes watersheds spanning Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua. The area includes the Madrean Archipelago, characterized by isolated forested mountain ranges surrounded by a “sea” of intervening flatlands, and expands east to include adjacent grasslands. As a testament to its rich diversity of species and habitats, the area has been recognized by Conservation International as one of only 35 Global Biodiversity Hotspots. With more than 4,000 vascular plant species, the Madrean Archipelago harbors the highest diversity of mammals, birds, bees, and ants anywhere in the conterminous U.S. It provides habitat for lower elevation species to migrate in response to increasing temperatures and is home to species and habitats found nowhere else in the world. Ranching is key to the area’s economy, cultural identity, and social structure. However, based on climate change projections, this area will likely experience some of the greatest changes in temperature and water availability in North America.

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Maine Mountain Collaborative

THE MAINE MOUNTAIN COLLABORATIVE is a coalition of statewide, regional and national conservation and forestry organizations bringing a shared focus and innovative nancing to accelerate the pace and scale of conservation in one of the world’s most intact temperate forests.

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Lower Susquehanna Conservation Landscape Initiative

To, in the short-term, conserve and protect the greenway corridor of riverlands along the Susquehanna River in Lancaster and York counties, and to, in the long-term, use the land-based and water trail greenway corridor as the nucleus and foundation upon w

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Madison Watershed Partnership

The Madison Watershed Partnership exists to support and enhance the Madison Valley, where together we live, work, and recreate. The Partnership is a neutral forum for information exchange on collaborative, community-based conservation efforts that serve to maintain and improve natural resources and community vitality.

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Lower Shore Land Trust

To protect the natural heritage, rural character, and historic landscapes of Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties, by assisting landowners to discover, evaluate, and implement any of the available land preservation options.

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Lower Penobscot Forest Project

To permanently place land in sustainable forestry, provide recreational opportunities, and create a landscape of protected habitat

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Long Trail Protection Campaign
Lower Colorado River Multi-species Conservation Plan

The Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program (LCR MSCP) was created to balance the use of the Colorado River water resources with the conservation of native species and their habitats. The program works toward the recovery of species currently listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).  It also reduces the likelihood of additional species listings.  Implemented over a 50-year period, the program accommodates current water diversions and power production, and will optimize opportunities for future water and power development by providing ESA compliance through the implementation of a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP).

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Lower Delaware Partnership Wild and Scenic Rivers

To provide river protection through the combined efforts of private landowners and other citizens, river related organizations, and all levels of government

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Long Island Sound Stewardship Initiative

To conserve the natural resources and increase public access around the Sound.

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Long Island South Shore Estuary Reserve Council

To protect the water quality of the estuaries and bays, for which both commercial and recreational fishing and shellfishing are dependent and to limit the impact that the growing human population and development in the watershed has on the estuary.

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Long Island North Shore Heritage Area

To ensure that the North Shore of Long Island’s extraordinary cultural, historical, and natural resources will be cherished by residents and visitors long in to the future.

Livermore Area Habitat Conservation Plan

The Livermore Area Habitat Conservation Plan has been adopted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to provide a coordinated management effort to protect habitat for Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse, Zapus hudsonius preblei,listed federally, and by the State of Colorado as a threatened sub-species.    The habitat conservation plan is an effort to maintain traditional land uses while conforming to the Endangered Species Act goal of protecting habitat for PMJM. Private interests have teamed with federal, state, and local agencies to address the challenge of reintroducing ecologically appropriate and safe fire into the watershed.

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Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative

The Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative is a Regional Conservation Partnership (RCP) protecting the land that matters most to communities in Northwest Connecticut. We protect our area’s most important landscapes and natural resources through the strategic, collaborative action of committed land trusts and community leaders. We believe that the very things that make the Litchfield Hills such a special place require this regional conservation approach that saves land while strengthening the conservation community.

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Lesser Prairie Chicken Range-wide Conservation Plan
Lemhi Regional Land Trust

The purpose of the Lemhi Regional Land Trust is to assist in the conservation of ranchland, environmental resources, and wildlife habitat in central Idaho.  Our main function is to provide incentives and options for property owners of ranchland to preseve their agricultural lifestyles.

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Lehigh Valley Greenways Conservation Landscape Initiative

To connect natural and cultural resources across the Lehigh Valley through trails and greenways – linking urban areas to outdoor experiences, protecting watersheds, and retaining the character of the landscape, the region’s heritage, and the community.

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Lava Lake Institute

The Lava Lake Institute works to accomplish conservation and increase understanding of the wildlife and ecosystems of the Pioneer Mountain — Craters of the Moon region.

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Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership / Las Cienegas National Conservation Area

The Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership (SVPP) is a voluntary association of agencies (federal, state, and local), organized groups and individuals who share a common interest in the future of public land resources in the Sonoita Valley. Participating individuals come from a variety of communities including Sonoita, Elgin, Patagonia, Huachuca City, Sierra Vista, Nogales, Tucson, and Phoenix among others. Participation also comes from representatives of organized groups including hiking clubs, conservation organizations, off-highway vehicle clubs, mountain bike clubs, bird-dog clubs, and grazing and mining interests. Agency representation has come from BLM, Nogales and Sierra Vista Ranger Districts of the Coronado National Forest, Natural Resource Conservation Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Arizona State Land Department, Arizona Department of Water Resources, Pima County Parks and Recreation and Planning/Flood Control, and Santa Cruz County.

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Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Initiative

To protect the unique character of the Laurel Highlands and to promote the region and its communities as world-class heritage/recreation destinations, as well as wonderful places to work and live.

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Larimer Foothills – Mountains to Plains Project
Lamprey Partnership Wild & Scenic River

To protect the relatively unspoiled beauty and the abundance of wildlife that flourish in the midst of the fast growing greater Portsmouth region of Southeastern New Hampshire.

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Lakeview Stewardship Group

The Lakeview Stewardship Group has as its goal “a sustainable forest that will ensure quality of life for present and future generations.” It works to achieve that goal through the incorporation of restoration and community values in the management of the Lakeview Federal Stewardship Unit (LFSU).

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Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership

The goal of the Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership (Lake Tahoe West) – an interagency initiative of the California Tahoe Conservancy, U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, California State Parks, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team, and National Forest Foundation – is to restore the resilience of the west shore’s forests, watersheds, recreational opportunities, and communities to such threats. The planning area includes 59,013 acres of federal, state, local, and private lands, from Emerald Bay to Squaw Valley.

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Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program

Launched in 1997, the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program (EIP) is a partnership of federal, state, and local agencies, private interests, and the Washoe Tribe, created to protect and improve the extraordinary natural and recreational resources of the Lake Tahoe Basin. EIP partners implement projects that include everything from new bike trails to creek restorations to programs that protect the lake from aquatic invasive species.

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Lake George Park Commission

To  preserve, protect, conserve, and enhance the unique natural scenic beauty, and to promote the study of the history, natural  science, and lore of Lake George and the area near the lake.

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Lake Champlain Basin Program

To coordinate and fund efforts which benefit the Lake Champlain Basin’s water quality, fisheries, wetlands, wildlife, recreation, and cultural resources.

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La Plata River Compact

The La Plata River Compact allocates water between Colorado and New Mexico and creates a framework for the water engineers from each state to administer the compact and for the two states to share information.

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Lackawanna Heritage Valley National Heritage Area

To the develop the region’s historic, cultural, economic, and natural resources through preservation, education, and promotion of our heritage.

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Kootenai Valley Resource Initiative

The Kootenai Valley Resource Initiative (KVRI) is a community-based, collaborative effort in the Kootenai River Basin. The mission of the KVRI is to improve coordination of local, state, federal and Tribal programs to restore and maintain social, cultural, economic and natural resources. KVRI coordinates the efforts of a number of subcommittees, working with the appropriate group to accomplish the task at hand. The Kootenai Tribe is optimistic about the possibilities this collaboration can achieve. The Tribe believes that cooperation among all groups with a stake in the region is the only way to ensure the sound and prosperous future of the Kootenai Basin.

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Kittatinny Ridge Greenway

To promote conservation activities to protect the Ridge from further habitat loss, fragmentation, and inappropriate land use.

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Kent County Historic & Scenic Landscape District
K-Coe Conservation

K·Coe Conservation is the hub of a national network of farmers, ranchers and landowners, energy companies and developers who want to cooperatively create private-land conservation projects.

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Kennebec Woodlands Partnership

To provide a wide range of tools and strategies to help landowners make informed decisions about their woodlands, ultimately supporting a range of actions and commitments that lead toward keeping forest as forest in Kennebec County.

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Kavongo Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area

The KAZA TFCA is enormous, larger than Germany and Austria combined and nearly twice as large as the United Kingdom. It lies in the Kavango and Zambezi river basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.

Jewels in the crown of this spectacular array of protected areas are the 15,000 km2 Okavango Delta, an explosion of green and blue in parched landscape – the world’s largest inland delta, and the awe inspiring tumbling cataracts of the Victoria Falls, a World Heritage Site and one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

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Karner Blue Butterfly Habitat Conservation Plan
James River Association

To be guardian of the James River, provide a voice for the river, and take action to promote conservation and responsible stewardship of its natural resources.

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Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area & Scenic Byway

To raise awareness of this region and encouraging Americans and world visitors to appreciate, respect, and experience this rich cultural landscape through education and heritage tourism.

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International Sonoran Desert Alliance

ISDA is a non-profit corporation founded in 1993 and governed by a board of directors representing the indigenous and non-indigenous populations of the U.S. and Mexico. We are a group of concerned people from all walks of life who have joined forces to: promote the concept and practice of conservation throughout the bio region; provide education in ways of protecting and respecting valuable biological and cultural resources and traditions; develop creative and sustainable solutions to critical local issues such as housing and economic development; and provide practical opportunities for individual and community action.

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International Joint Commission

The International Joint Commission (IJC) was created by the Boundary Waters Treaty (1909). The IJC made up of representatives from the US and Canada who may be called on to research an issue or prevent/resolve a dispute.

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Intermountain West Joint Venture

The Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) is a diverse partnership of 18 entities, including federal agencies, state agencies, non-profit conservation organizations, and for-profit organizations representing agriculture and industry. The IWJV was founded in 1994 to facilitate bird conservation across the vast 495 million acres of the Intermountain West. The IWJV is an all-bird JV committed to implementing the NAWMP, U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, North American Waterbird Conservation Plan, and Partners in Flight Landbird Conservation Plan.

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Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Plan

The Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project was based on Presidential direction to develop a scientifically sound, ecosystem based strategy for management of 64 million acres of lands administered by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management within the Columbia River Basin, and portions of the Klamath and Great basins in Oregon.  The Project was based on concerns over forest and rangeland health, uncharacteristically intense wildland fires, threats to certain fish and wildlife species, an d concerns about local community social and economic well being.  In addition, there was little broad- scale scientific knowledge of the ecological, biophysical, social, and economic conditions, trends, risks, and opportunities within the planning area.

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Imagine the Future of Open Space: A Vision Plan

The Midpenisula Regional Open Space District set out in 2012 to chart a course for the next 40 years and beyond with Imagine the Future of Open Space, an 18-month public visioning process designed to help Midpen focus, inspire, and coordinate open space conservation and management on the San Francisco Peninsula, San Mateo Coast, and South Bay regions.

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Inter-American Development Bank

We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education, and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of increased integrity, transparency, and accountability.

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Imagine Greater Tucson

Imagine Greater Tucson is a rapidly growing, community-based effort dedicated to protecting and enhancing our quality of life in the greater Tucson region.  Our goal is to involve the people of greater Tucson in creating a shared vision for our region”s future, and catalyze the development of strategies to realize this vision.

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Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership

The Hudson to Housatonic (H2H) Regional Conservation Partnership works across CT and NY to improve water quality and promote conservation and sound stewardship.

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Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area

The Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area was created to improve awareness of the cultural and natural resources of the Hudson River Valley.

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Hudson River Valley Greenway

To continue and advance the state’s commitment to the preservation, enhancement and development of the world-renowned scenic, natural, historic, cultural and recreational resources of the Hudson River Valley while continuing to emphasize economic development

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Hudson River Estuary Program

The Hudson River Estuary Program helps people enjoy, protect, and revitalize the Hudson River and its valley. Created in 1987 through the Hudson River Estuary Management Act, the program focuses on the tidal Hudson and adjacent watershed from the federal dam at Troy to the Verrazano Narrows in New York City. The mission of the Estuary Program is built around six benefits:

  • Clean Water
  • Resilient Communities
  • Vital Estuary Ecosystem
  • Estuary Fish, Wildlife, and Habitats
  • Natural Scenery
  • Education, River Access, Recreation, and Inspiration

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Hudson Highlands Land Trust

The Hudson Highlands is a region of simple, yet dramatic beauty, astounding biodiversity, and major historical significance. HHLT is dedicated to conserving this remarkable region forever.

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Housatonic Valley Association

The Housatonic Valley Association, founded in 1941, works to conserve the natural character and environmental health of our communities by protecting and restoring the lands and waters of the Housatonic Watershed for this and future generations.

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Hopewell Big Woods Partnership

To promote conservation goals within and near the Hopewell Big Woods.

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Historic Saratoga-Washington on the Hudson Partnership

To preserve, enhance and develop the historic, agricultural, scenic, natural and recreational resources and the significant waterways within the Partnership region.

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Hill Country Conservation Network

The Hill Country Conservation Network recognizes that individuals and organizations cannot solve the complex problems stemming from the wide scope and rapid unmanaged growth by acting independently; that a shared vision and mission is greater than any one organization, agency, or brand, and that individuals and organizations will have greater impact if they work collaboratively and encompass the necessary authorities and geographic scale to link economic, social and environmental objectives. HCCN’s vision is a vibrant and healthy Hill Country driven by the collective impact of individuals, organizations, and businesses working together.

 

Hill Country Alliance

HCA is a passionate community caring for the unique features, spring-fed streams, heritage ranch lands, spectacular beauty and culture of the Texas Hill Country for the benefit of future generations.

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Highlands Conservation Initiative

To recognize the importance of the water, forest, agricultural, wildlife, recreational, and cultural resources of the Highlands region, and to recognize the national significance of the Highlands region to the United States.

High Allegheny National Park and Preserve Complex

To give national and global recognition to the Mountain State’s scenic grandeur through the establishment of West Virginia’s first National Park.

High Peaks Initiative

To protect the unique and special qualities of the High Peaks Region of Maine’s Western Mountains.

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High Plains Partnership for Species at Risk (Western Governors)

Since more than 90 percent of the High Plains region is privately owned, public/private partnerships play a vital role in meeting the shared goals of conserving declining and at-risk species, while preserving and maintaining working landscapes on private lands. The High Plains Partnership is a public/private initiative across the eleven-State High Plains region to conserve declining species and habitats on private lands. In the spirit of the Secretary’s 4 C’s, this partnership is a cooperative effort between the Fish and Wildlife Service, State fish and wildlife agencies, several agencies within the Department of Agriculture, private conservation organizations, and private landowners.

Henry’s Fork Foundation and Watershed Council

The Henry’s Fork Foundation is the only organization whose sole purpose is to conserve, restore, and protect the unique fisheries, wildlife, and aesthetic qualities of the Henry’s Fork watershed. The Foundation is based in Ashton, Idaho and co-facilitates the Henry’s Fork Watershed Council.

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Heartland Conservation Alliance

The Heartland Conservation Alliance proactively conserves, protects, and restores natural lands and open space within the Kansas City region, benefitting the community and future generations by improving water quality, creating recreational opportunities, protecting life and property, and preserving our natural and cultural heritage. HCA accomplishes its goals through collaboration with a network of public and private organizations and agencies that share its goals, values, and objectives, and through public outreach and education.

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Heart of the West

In 1999, a number of biologists and ecologists noted a critical, yet unaddressed, piece of the puzzle that links other reserve design projects between the Northern and Southern Rockies. The Heart of the West region spans southeast Idaho, southwest Wyoming, northwest Colorado and northeast Utah. The call to map critical habitat linkages for conservation to ensure connectivity across the landscape, and maintain viable populations of species within the Heart of the West would be soon answered by the Western Wildlands Network.

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Heart of the Rockies Initiative

The Heart of the Rockies Initiative is a collaboration of 25 national, statewide, and local land trusts working along the Continental Divide in Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. The core mission of this initiative is to work together to increase the pace of strategic private land conservation in the Northern Rockies to ensure the long-term ecological functionality of these vast landscapes.

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Heart of New England

The Heart of New England is a carefully designed, comprehensive response to the sweeping conservation vision proposed in the Harvard Forest report, Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the New England Forest. This long-range vision proposes that by 2060 at least 70% of the region—30 million acres—should be conserved as forestland that remains free from development, thereby allowing natural and human communities to flourish.

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Headwaters Montana

Headwaters Montana works on a limited number of initiatives that focus on the human responsibility of maintaining and protecting the natural heritage of our home in the Crown of the Continent.  We do this work for the sake of a sustainable economy and way of life.  Most importantly, we do this for our children, that they may have a home in the future as special as the one we enjoy today. Our initiatives range from specific projects like the “Transboundary Project” that seeks permanent protection for the North Fork Flathead River valley and Waterton – Glacier International Peace Park, to wilderness advocacy, and advancing local awareness and understanding of the importance of conservation to our prosperity.

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Hay Creek Watershed Association

To actively protect, preserve, and restore Hay Creek and its watershed through advocacy, education, community involvement, and stewardship of the areas within or affecting the watershed.

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Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge

Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge is located in McHenry County, Illinois and Walworth County, Wisconsin. The refuge aims to restore and connect a landscape that includes large blocks of grasslands, wet prairies, and natural stream watercourses.

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Hawaii Association of Watershed Partnerships

HAWP comprises eleven island-based Watershed Partnerships that work collaboratively with more than 74 public and private partners on five islands to protect over 2.2 million acres of vital forested watershed lands. These Watershed Partnerships are making a critical difference for the protection of forested watersheds in our state. HAWP’s mission is to increase the effective management and protection of mauka (upper elevation) watershed areas by raising the capacity of Watershed Partnerships, facilitating sharing of watershed management expertise, building public support for protecting watershed values, and developing sustainable funding sources.

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Gulf of Mexico Restoration
Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment

To maintain and enhance environmental quality in the Gulf of Maine to allow for sustainable resource use by existing and future generations.

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GreenSpace Alliance

To promote and advocate for the preservation and enhancement of recreational, natural, and agricultural open spaces to preserve the quality of life in southeastern Pennsylvania.

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Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The mission of the GCPO LCC is to:

  • define a shared vision for sustainable natural and cultural resources in the face of a changing climate and other threats;
  • design strategies to achieve that vision;
  • and deliver results on the ground through leadership, partnerships, contributed resources, evaluation and refinement over time.

Our vision of success is to ensure natural and cultural landscapes capable of sustaining healthy ecosystems, clean water, fish, wildlife, and human communities in the 180-million- acre Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks region through the 21st century.

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Greater Yellowstone Coalition

The Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) was founded in 1983 on a simple premise: An ecosystem will remain healthy and wild only if it is kept whole. Since that time, we have emerged as a nationally known advocate for the idea that ecosystem level sustainability and science should guide the management of the region’s public and private lands.

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Green Valleys Association

To protect and preserve the quality and quantity of water resources in northern Chester County through advocacy and education.

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Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee

The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee (GYCC) was formed to allow representatives from the National Park Service, US Forest Service, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to pursue opportunities of mutual cooperation and coordination in the management of core federal lands in the Greater Yellowstone area.

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Greater Grand Canyon Landscape Assessment
Greater Gila Bioregion
Greater Forest Park Conservation Initiative

Forest Park is a beloved gem within the City of Portland’s parks system that for decades has been the focus of civic, conservation, and recreational planning and management efforts. The Greater Forest Park Conservation Initiative takes a larger view, addressing not just Forest Park but also the natural areas around it. Together, these lands form a unique and vibrant natural ecosystem just minutes from the center of a major urban area. This ecosystem not only serves the greater Portland-Vancouver region but is a national tourist attraction.

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Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership

The Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership is an alliance of environmental, governmental, and business organizations dedicated to researching and demonstrating approaches to forest ecosystem restoration in the ponderosa pine forests surrounding Flagstaff, Arizona. The Partnership’s three primary goals are to:

  • Restore natural ecosystem structures, function, and composition of ponderosa pine forests.
  • Manage forest fuels to reduce the probability of catastrophic fire.
  • Research, test, develop, and demonstrate key ecological, economic, and social dimensions of restoration efforts.

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Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors of Central Maryland. The Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition envisions a future where:

  • Accessible interconnected and healthy ecosystems contribute to economic vitality, resilience, and quality of life for all the regions residents and visitors;
  • The regions working lands, watersheds, open spaces, and natural communities are intentionally protected, restored, enhanced, and managed for ecological health; and
  • Healthy and prosperous communities appreciate and support natural ecosystems, creating an enduring culture of conservation and stewardship.

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Great Swamp Watershed Association

The Great Swamp Watershed Association is dedicated to protecting and improving water resources in the region by monitoring local streams, advocating for intelligent land use, and educating our communities about water quality and quantity.

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Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The GPLCC is an applied conservation partnership that will provide science and decision-support tools for the full complement of plant, fish and wildlife resources in the Great Plains geographic area. The products from this partnership will help inform management actions for greater impact on priority species. The geographic area of the GPLCC encompasses parts of eight states: New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

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Great Plains Restoration Council

Great Plains Restoration Council (GPRC) works to restore and protect our shattered prairies and plains through developing youth leaders in Ecological Health. Protecting wild nature is a matter of public health, and participating in its hands-on recovery offers therapeutic modalities for many social and physical ills.

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Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) is an alliance of conservation partners with common landscape conservation goals for building ecosystem resilience within the Great Northern Geographic Area. The Great Northern landscape includes a diversity of lands and supports diverse land-uses including:

  1. Ecosystems and habitats with native vegetation that supports populations of important fish and wildlife species
  2. Species important for ecological values as well as socially important hunting and angling
  3. Aquatic rivers, lakes, riparian, and wetland systems valued for ecological services as well as for water delivery and water quality for human use
  4. Lands rich in cultural heritage to Native American Tribes
  5. Traditional land-uses such as ranching, agriculture and timber production
  6. Lands supporting a history of western culture.

Partners to the Great Northern LCC support land and water conservation for all of these values through a manner conducive to sustainable ecosystem services and resilience to change from landscape stressors.

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Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association

Assure the long term protection of the special qualities of the Great Egg Harbor River.

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Great Marsh Coalition

To develop and implement a campaign for the Great Marsh to increase public awareness of this unique area in order to expand the number of citizens, businesses, educators, local officials, politicians, and others who will support this environmental stewardship initiative.

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Great Eastern Ranges Initiative

The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative is bringing people and organisations together to protect, link and restore healthy habitats over 3,600 kilometres from Western Victoria through NSW and the ACT to Far North Queensland. The initiative is a strategic response to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change, invasive species, land clearing and other environmental changes on our richest biodiversity and iconic landscapes.

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Great Bend of the Gila National Monument
Great Bear Rainforest

Promoting conservation and economic alternatives in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest

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Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership

To undertake a comprehensive, landscape-scale approach to conservation and habitat protection within 24 towns around Great Bay.

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Great Basin Restoration Initiative
Great Basin National Heritage Area

The Great Basin National Heritage Area is a geographical region encompassing White Pine County, Nevada and Millard County, Utah and adjacent Indian reservations that contains nationally significant archaeological, historical, cultural, natural and scenic features that are emblematic of the entire Great Basin Area.

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Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is one of 21 LCCs being formed by the U.S. Department of the Interior across the United States. LCCs are applied science and management partnerships between Interior Department bureaus and others involved in natural resource management and conservation, designed to better integrate science and management to address climate change and related issues.

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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Grand Canyon Trust

We focus on the 130,000 square mile Colorado Plateau that features 29 national parks and monuments and 26 wilderness areas — America’s densest concentration of celebrated landscapes. The region is also home to 15 Native American tribes, each with a distinctive and ancient culture. An ongoing strategic planning process helps us choose the most critical projects from among the myriad natural resource and Native American issues. We give priority to projects that have broad implications for public lands policy and offer practical, demonstrable outcomes. We are intentionally collaborative and positive in approach, seeking solutions wherever possible, though we can be very strong in defense of the land when necessary. The Trust is widely respected for getting the facts right and for seeking solutions that will endure.

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Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program

The Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program (GCDAMP) was officially established in 1997, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in compliance with the Grand Canyon Protection Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-575), and the 1996 Record of Decision which initiated the process “whereby the effects of dam operations on downstream resources would be monitored and assessed.” The implementation of the GCDAMP provided for flexibility in adapting the dam’s operations in order to facilitate continued scientific research and monitoring while allowing the project purposes for which the dam was constructed to continue. As environmental experimentation and studies continue to take place, it is important to recognize that the Secretary must continue to operate Glen Canyon Dam to meet the purposes established by Congress in law.

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Genesee Land Trust

To preserve and protect land within the Greater Rochester area, including waterways, wetlands, farmland, open space, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic or recreational areas.

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Front Range Roundtable

The Roundtable is a coalition of individuals from state and federal agencies, local governments, environmental and conservation organizations, the academic and scientific communities, and industry and user groups, all with a commitment to forest health and fire risk mitigation along Colorado’s Front Range.  The Roundtable’s focus area encompasses 10 Front Range counties: Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, El Paso, Gilpin, Grand, Jefferson, Larimer, Park and Teller.

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Friends of the Rappahannock

To maintain the water quality and scenic beauty of the Rappahannock River and its tributaries, in addition to restoring the population levels of various species to their historic norm.

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Friends of the Conte Refuge

The Friends of the Conte Refuge is a coalition of organizations cooperating to provide support for theSilvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.

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French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust

To preserve and protect endangered land and natural resources in the northern Chester County watersheds for future generations.

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Friends of Patapsco Valley and Heritage Greenway Inc. (FPVHG)

Our motivation is to ensure that the Patapsco Valley remains pleasant for our generation and for future generations. One of the key elements of our mission is to complete and expand a professionally developed Management Plan.

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Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area

To promote interpretation of the region’s heritage through education, documentation, and stewardship using the facilities of local museums, historical societies, heritage sites and cultural centers.

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Four Forest Restoration Initiative

The overall goal of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) is to restore the structure, pattern and composition of fire-adapted ecosystems, which will provide for fuels reduction, forest health, and wildlife and plant diversity. A key objective is doing this while creating sustainable ecosystems and industries in the long term. Appropriately-scaled businesses will likely play a key role in the effort by harvesting, processing and selling wood products. The restoration-based work opportunities are expected to create jobs across northern Arizona.

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Florida Fish and Wildlife

Managing fish and wildlife resources for their long-term well-being and the benefit of people.

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Forest Preserves of Cook County

The Forest Preserve District of Cook County, with more than 69,000-acres, is the largest forest preserve district in the United States. It receives an estimated 40 million visits each year, providing an escape into a world teeming with wildlife and rich with outdoor recreation and environmental education opportunities. Within its boundaries are rare habitats that offer plant and animal diversity on par with the rainforests of the world.

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Flathead Lakers

The Flathead Lakers provides leadership and a strong voice for protecting and improving water quality through advocacy, education and stewardship programs. Formed in 1958, the organization is governed by a volunteer board of directors. Our board members come from diverse backgrounds and expertise and represent all communities around the lake. The Flathead Lakers’ approach is to encourage land and water stewardship, broaden the constituency for responsible and thoughtful land use planning and resource management, and build partnerships to more effectively address conservation priorities so that our communities can absorb growth and provide economic opportunities while maintaining our special natural heritage and quality of life for future generations.

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Flathead Basin Commission

The purpose of the Flathead Basin Commission is to protect the existing high quality of the Flathead Lake aquatic environment; the waters that flow into, out of, or are tributary to the lake; and the natural resources and environment of the Flathead Basin.

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Essex National Heritage Area

To preserve and enhance the historic, cultural and natural resources of Essex County for the benefit of all who live, work and visit the Area.

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Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor

The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, in partnership with the National Park Service and numerous local, state, and federal partners, works to preserve and share our extraordinary heritage, to promote the Corridor as a world-class tourism destination, and to foster vibrant communities connected by the waterway.

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Finger Lakes Land Trust

To protect those lands that define the character of the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York

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Eightmile River Wild & Scenic Watershed Management Plan

To establish recommended tools and strategies for ensuring the Eightmile River Wild and Scenic watershed ecosystem is protected and enhanced for generations to come.

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Envision Utah

Envision Utah works to understand what Utahns want for the future. Then we find collaborative ways to make their vision a reality. Envision Utah engages people to create and sustain communities that are beautiful, prosperous, healthy and neighborly for current and future residents.

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Eastern Shore Land Conservancy

To preserve and sustain the vibrant communities of the Eastern Shore and the lands and waters that connect them.

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Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture

The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) is a unique partnership between state and federal agencies, regional and local governments, businesses, conservation organizations, academia, scientific societies, and private citizens working toward protecting, restoring and enhancing brook trout populations and their habitats across their native range.

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East Kootenay Conservation Program

Originally established in 2002, the East Kootenay Conservation Program (EKCP) now has over 50 partners dedicated to conserving natural areas for Kootenay communities. Our partners include conservation and agricultural organizations, forestry and business, education, First Nations, and all levels of government. The EKCP vision is to have landscapes in the Kootenays that sustain naturally functioning ecosystems that can in turn support economic and social well being.  We envision vibrant communities that demonstrate the principles of environmental stewardship for future generations. Our purpose is to facilitate, not advocate or regulate. Networking can help us find win-win approaches to ecosystem conservation and stewardship on private and adjacent Crown lands. In this way we can maintain and, in some cases, restore the rich biological, economic, and social heritage of the East Kootenay.

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Ducktrap River Coalition

To protect the Ducktrap River, including its natural features and critical watershed.

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Dreaming New Mexico

The Dreaming New Mexico project began as a place of refuge from the trials and tribulations of everyday attempts to make the world a better place. We asked: What is it we really desire? We asked all state residents — government workers, farmers, energy consultants, non-government activists, philanthropists, entrepreneurs — to dream how their work fit into the Big Picture, the longer-term understanding of what they want for themselves, the next generation and the Earth.

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Downeast Lakes Land Trust

To contribute to the long-term economic and environmental well-being of the Downeast Lakes region through the conservation and exemplary management of its forests and waters.

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Dinkey Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project

The Dinkey Collaborative is a group of stakeholders representing diverse public interests and California Native American Tribes, who are working with the U.S. Forest Service and other public agencies to implement the federal Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program on the Dinkey Landscape, Sierra National Forest, California.

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Desert Managers Group

The California Deserts are a vast, harsh yet fragile land within a day’s drive of over 40 million people. Approximately 80 percent of the desert, around 25 million acres, is publicly owned and managed and includes two national parks, a national preserve, three national monuments, six military Installations,  72 wilderness areas, 14 state parks, and extensive holdings of public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Conflicting demands for use of the California deserts make it imperative for governmental agencies to work cooperatively in support of agency missions, protection of desert resources, and public use. The DMG was established as the forum for government agencies to address and discuss issues of common concern.  Through cooperative management each agency achieves greater operational efficiency, enhances resource protection, and the public is better served.

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Diablo Trust

Diablo Trust brings together ranchers, environmentalists, federal and state land managers, scientists, recreationists, and other volunteers to achieve a variety of shared goals. These include: Sustaining open space; Living in balance with biodiversity; Producing high quality food; Restoring watersheds; Creating stable, living soils; Achieving community.  We are constantly learning from the land and sharing our knowledge… so there will always be a West.

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Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative

Land managers are faced with increasing management challenges such as land use conversion, sensitive species protection and recovery, invasive species, water scarcity, and a range of other complex issues—all of which are amplified by climate change. In response, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) are partnering to develop the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC). This effort represents a broad vision of conservation that includes working with partners across landscapes to ensure that the necessary science capacity is in place to successfully address these 21st-century conservation challenges. We are in the process of reaching out to resource managers and others within the Desert LCC, and invite you to contact us if you are interested in participating or would like more information.

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Desert Fish Habitat Partnership

The Desert Fish Habitat Partnership will benefit native desert fishes by bringing agencies, organizations, and the public together to work towards the recovery and conservation of these imperiled species and their habitats. By partnering across geo-political boundaries, the Partnership will pursue more effective management strategies than are generally achieved on a local, smaller scale.By identifying priority species and habitats, integrating and applying the best available science and promoting community involvement, the Partnership will help ensure that conservation actions and funds are expended efficiently in those locations, and on those actions, most likely to yield the greatest results in arresting the decline of desert fishes.

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Delta Plan Council

In November 2009, the California Legislature enacted the Delta Reform Act, one of several bills passed at this time related to water supply reliability, ecosystem health, and the Delta. The Act, effective on Feb. 3, 2010, created the Delta Stewardship Council. The Council is made up of seven members who provide a broad, statewide perspective and diverse expertise.  In addition, they are advised by a 10-member board of nationally and internationally renowned scientistsThe Council was created to advance the state’s coequal goals for the Delta – a more reliable statewide water supply and a healthy and protected ecosystem, both achieved in a manner that protects and enhances the unique characteristics of the Delta as an evolving place. To do this, the Act required that the Council develop an enforceable long-term sustainable management plan for the Delta to ensure coordinated action at the federal, state, and local levels. The Delta Plan, adopted in 2013, includes both regulatory policies and non-binding recommendations.

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Delaware River Basin Commission

To be the leader in protecting, enhancing, and developing the water resources of the Delaware River Basin for present and future generations, and in doing so, to serve as a policy-maker, regulator, planner, manager and mediator on behalf of the Signatories to the Delaware River Basin Compact and the citizens of the Basin.

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Delaware & Raritan Canal Commission

The Commission envisions the park as a spine for a network of preserved wildlife habitat and recreation sites that extends across central New Jersey, reaching into every community in the region and giving definition to the region.

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Crown of the Continent Conservation Initiative

This coalition is led by a steering committee of 15 organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Over the past year, the CCCI developed a comprehensive Conservation Agenda and Conservation Plan to achieve long term conservation goals and vision for the Crown in a time of climate change, as well as comprehensive and collaborative conservation strategies in four key areas: climate science, policy framework, communication/outreach, and capacity building. Climate change is the overarching theme of the CCCI.

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Crown of the Continent Geotourism Council

This broad-based partnership of local community and business leaders formed in 2007 as an advisory committee to work with NPCA and National Geographic on the Crown of the Continent MapGuide and interactive website. Today, the Council describes itself as “a regional network of communities, tourism bureaus, conservation and business groups, educators, First Nations, government agencies, and others working together [to provide] information about the Crown of the Continent region for visitors and residents to understand, appreciate, and help preserve its geographic character, including historical, cultural and environmental heritage. Looking forward, the Council intends to pursue cooperative projects that promote regional understanding and appreciation, encourage sustainable businesses, support community well-being, advance landscape stewardship, and provide outstanding visitor experiences.”

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Crown of the Continent Ecosystem Education Consortium

Recognizing that regional ecosystems, such as the Crown of the Continent, are comprised of an intricate interweaving of environmental, social, and economic components, it is felt that raising local, regional, and global awareness of the components and function of such ecosystems is critical to achieving support for maintaining the integrity of the the regional ecosystem.

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Crown Managers Partnership

The CMP seeks to improve the management of a large complex ecoregion containing multiple jurisdictions. This is accomplished by management agencies working together in the Crown of the Continent.

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Cross-Watershed Network

Watershed practitioners across the arid West are finding that they can accomplish much more together than they can individually. By sharing restoration strategies and lessons learned across watersheds, well-connected practitioners work more efficiently & effectively. The Cross-Watershed Network is a participant-driven, peer-to-peer network of practitioners like you! XWN helps participants connect with peers through in-person and virtual venues to share innovative ideas and to solve real-world problems.

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Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area

To offer a forum for new citizen initiatives on education, historical interpretation, site use and heritage tourism; and to raise popular appreciation of the historical significance of the American Revolution in New Jersey.

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Craighead Institute

The Craighead Institute (formerly Craighead Environmental Research Institute) is an applied science and research organization with a long history of designing and managing innovative research projects in support of conservation in the Northern Rockies and around the world.  Our mission is to maintain healthy populations of native plants, wildlife and people as part of sustainable, functioning ecosystems.

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Connecticut River Watershed Council

The Connecticut River Conservancy is the voice for the Connecticut River watershed, from source to sea. We collaborate with partners across four states to protect and advocate for your rivers and educate and engage communities. We bring people together to prevent pollution, improve habitat, and promote enjoyment of your river and its tributary streams. Healthy rivers support healthy economies.

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Costilla Creek Compact Commission

Allocates waters of Costilla Creek to water users in Colorado and New Mexico. Compact is overseen by water commission.

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Connecticut River Gateway Commission

To preserve the aesthetic and ecological natural beauty of the lower Connecticut River valley for present and future generations.

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Community Watershed Alliance of the Middle San Pedro Valley

An evolving team of stakeholders working together to promote the sustainable health of our watershed

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Common Waters Partnership

The mission of Common Waters is to conserve clean water, natural places and working lands through cooperation, scientific research, education, and technical assistance by and for the stakeholders of the region. The partnership strives to facilitate information sharing through joint publications, shared web-delivery systems and establishment of a communications network across municipal, county, and state boundaries via regular forums and cooperative projects.

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Columbia River Treaty

The Columbia River Treaty optimizes hydropower generation and authorizes flood control operations. BC Hydro, Bonnneville Power Adminstration, and the US Army Corps of Engineers oversee day-to-day implementation.

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Colorado River Delta Legacy Program

The overall long-term goal of the Sonoran Institute’s program in the in the Delta, in conjunction with other partners, is to enhance, restore, and maintain the Colorado River Delta ecosystem for people and the environment. Our vision is to have a healthy Delta ecosystem that provides recreation and economic development opportunities for local people, including indigenous populations, and supports healthy populations of freshwater and marine wildlife species.

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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program

The purpose of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program is to encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes.

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Colorado River Cooperative Agreement

Governs future water project construction and management of Colorado River Basin water in Colorado and establishes a new process for dealing with long-standing disputes between east and west slope interests.

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Colorado River Compact

The Colorado River Compact allocates approximately 7.5 million acre feet annually to the upper basin states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, and an equal amount to the lower basin states of Arizona, Nevada and California.

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Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front/Rocky Mountain Front Initiative

In 2006, the Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front and many other Montanans successfully worked with their Senators to pass legislation halting new federal oil and gas leasing on the Front. This home-grown solution allows existing leases to be retired after they are voluntarily donated or sold, ensuring that critical wildlife habitat and public access are protected for future generations to enjoy. Regardless of the success, there is still much work to be done in order to keep the front the way it is. Today one of the region’s most sensitive areas is the foreland connecting the Wilderness to the west with the public and private winter range to the east. This narrow band of public land comprises a fragile and irreplaceable link between the lowlands and the mountains.

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Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed

The Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed was formed in 2012 to raise awareness of the river and its surrounding landscape by bringing together groups already working to restore degraded resources, safeguard vulnerable assets, and educate their communities. The Coalition brings together nongovernmental organizations working throughout the Delaware River Watershed to share information, leverage resources, and coordinate efforts and advocacy. Together, we are committed to protecting and restoring the Delaware River, its tributaries, and more than 13,500 square miles of forests, wetlands, communities, and other distinctive landscapes in the watershed so that clean water and valued resources are secured for generations to come.

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Coastal Douglas-fir Conservation Partnership, Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team

The Coastal Douglas-fir Conservation Partnership arose from the recognition of a need for a more strategic and collaborative approach among those involved and interested in conservation efforts in Coastal Douglas-fir ecosystems, and was developed through a series of discussions and workshops including different levels of governments, non-government conservation organizations, and community residents who believe that by working together, we can more effectively achieve our shared conservation goals.  The CDFCP promotes shared stewardship and will identify conservation priorities, reduce duplication of effort, share resources and information, and provide support to its participants.

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Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection

The Coalition’s mission is to achieve the long-term conservation of biological diversity and ecological function of the Sonoran Desert through comprehensive land-use planning, with primary emphasis on Pima County’s Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan.

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Clearwater Resource Council

Our Mission: The mission of the Clearwater Resource Council is to engage the community and facilitate efforts that will enhance, conserve, sustain, and protect the natural resources and rural lifestyle of the Clearwater Watershed for present and future generations.

Our Goals: Build community capacity to resolve issues; Create opportunities for interaction among citizens, businesses and agencies; Build common ground by consensus process; Facilitate timely collection and dissemination of information; Enhance the understanding of cumulative effects of land management practices; and Develop and support responsible resource stewardship programs.

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Clark Fork Coalition

Founded in 1985, the Clark Fork Coalition is dedicated to protecting and restoring the Clark Fork River basin, a 22,000-square-mile area draining western Montana and northern Idaho. We have over a 27-year-long record of substantial achievements improving the health of the watershed. Our work is science-based and results-oriented, with an emphasis on public education through energetic advocacy. This approach puts people in touch with Clark Fork River and the cause for a healthy watershed, and it has made the Coalition a trusted and respected voice for our rivers and communities.

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Adventure Scientists
Adventure Scientists is a nonprofit organization that equips partners with data collected from the outdoors that are crucial to addressing environmental challenges.

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Chittenden County Uplands Conservation Project

To conserve the ecological integrity and rural character and working landscape of the northeastern uplands of Chittenden County, an intact landscape of alpine, montane foothill, and valley habitats within a rich assemblage of landforms.

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Ciengas Watershed Partnership

The Cienega Watershed is a unique landscape in Southeastern Arizona in which the Cienega Creek, visible as a green riparian ribbon, cuts through a sea of semi-desert grasslands hosting an array of critical habitats and historical resources. Within this scenic and rich landscape, however, are threats from climate change, vegetation changes, development pressures, and multiple owners. Fortunately, the Cienega Watershed Partnership and many partners in the watershed are committed to sustaining the ecological systems, heritage values, wildlife corridors, and open spaces for future generations.

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Chilean Private Lands Conservation Initiative
Chesapeake Land & Water Initiative

The Land Trust Alliance and the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network (CBFN) launched the Chesapeake Bay Land and Water Initiative (the Initiative) in 2016 to deploy an integrated and innovative approach to permanent land protection, stewardship, community engagement, partners and public policy that will preserve or enhance water quality across the 64,000-square-mile Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

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Chicago Wilderness

We are a regional alliance leading strategy to preserve, improve, and expand nature and quality of life. By connecting leaders in conservation, health, business, science, and beyond, we tackle challenging issues to ensure a resilient region. Building on a 20-year legacy of collaboration, our broad alliance of member organizations advance work in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan. We are…one region. one vision. one voice.

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Chesapeake Conservation Partnership

We foster collaborative action to conserve culturally and ecologically important landscapes to benefit people, economies and nature throughout the six­ state watershed.

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Chesapeake Bay Program

To reduce pollutants into the Bay and restore its living resources.

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Chateauguay No Town Conservation Project

To work together for the common goal of voluntary land stewardship and wildlife habitat conservation through education and the coordination of public and private partnerships.

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Charles River Watershed Association

CRWA’s mission is to use science, advocacy and the law to protect, preserve and enhance the Charles River and its watershed.
One of the country’s oldest watershed organizations, Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) was formed in 1965 in response to public concern about the declining condition of the Charles. Since its earliest days of advocacy, CRWA has figured prominently in major clean-up and watershed protection efforts, working with government officials and citizen groups from 35 Massachusetts watershed towns from Hopkinton to Boston. Initiatives over the last five decades have dramatically improved the quality of water in the watershed and fundamentally changed approaches to water resource management.

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Central Virginia Land Conservancy

To assist landowners and public officials in developing long-range plans to preserve farms, forests, streams and rivers, and other rural and cultural resources for the enjoyment of future generations.

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Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership

The Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership encourages and facilitates cooperation among the people of New York, Vermont, and Quebec to conserve, interpret, and support the irreplaceable cultural, recreational, and natural resources of the region, in order to enrich the lives of those who live and visit here.

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Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission

To help local governments and the state coordinate the efforts of all municipal, county, state and federal agencies involved in the management of the Preserve and to oversee and prepare a comprehensive intergovernmental management plan for the Long Island residents.

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Central Flyways Council

The Central Flyway is composed of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. Central Flyway Council mission: To provide leadership in the international conservation of migratory game birds and build partnerships among public and private groups interested in this valuable wildlife resource. Two technical committees serve and advise the Council: one deals with waterfowl and one with shore and upland game birds.

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Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative

A partnership of diverse interests with a common goal of restoring historic red spruce-northern hardwood ecosystems across the high elevation landscapes of Central Appalachia. It is comprised of private, state, federal, and non-governmental organizations which recognize the importance of this ecosystem for its ecological, aesthetic, recreational, economic, and cultural values.

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Center for Large Landscape Conservation

The Center for Large Landscape Conservation creates strategies to solve nature’s large scale challenges such as climate change and habitat fragmentation.  It was established in 2007 and is a nonprofit corporation located in Bozeman, Montana.

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Catskill Forest Preserve Blue Line
Catskill Center for Conservation and Development

The Catskill Center stimulates, conducts, and supports integrated actions to protect and foster the environmental, cultural and economic well-being of the Catskill region.

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Casco Bay Estuary Partnership

To protect and restore Casco Bay and its watershed while sustaining compatible human uses.

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Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperative

We represent a partnership among research and management agencies, organizations and individuals who are interested in achieving a sustainable future for the Caribbean Islands, by addressing some of the issues that currently threaten our land and marine resources. Our mission is to develop and implement coordinated, efficient, and effective landscape-scale conservation design and strategies to conserve, restore and sustain ecological and cultural resources and human well-being in the Caribbean.

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Carroll County, Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation

To preserve the county’s best agricultural land by compensating landowners for voluntarily, and in perpetuity, forgoing land development through a Deed of Conservation Easement recorded in the Carroll County Land Records.

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Cape Cod Commission

To manage growth, to protect Cape Cod’s unique environment and character, and to foster a healthy community.

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Canyon Country Partnership

The Canyon Country Partnership is an interagency, grassroots initiative which grew out of the vision and efforts of local agency managers. The goals of the Partnership are two-fold:  1) collaboration among members of the Partnership, including the sharing of information and re-sources so that management decisions can be made with an un-derstanding of potential impacts to adjacent lands; and 2) sustainable land management, i.e., preserving ecosystem functions while providing products that society needs and desires.

Canadian River Commission

The Canadian River Commission administers the Canadian River Compact which includes the states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Signed in 1950 by the member states, the Compact was subsequently ratified by the respective state legislatures, approved by Congress, and was signed into law by the President in 1952. The interstate Canadian River Commission includes one state commissioner appointed by the governor of each member state and one federal commissioner appointed by the President.

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Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement sets a global precedent for the integration of economic and environmental values to ensure a sustainable future for our boreal forest, our natural habitat, our forestry industry and all those whose livelihoods rely upon it.

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California Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The California Landscape Conservation Cooperative (CA LCC) is a management-science partnership created to inform and promote integrated science, natural resource management and conservation to address impacts of climate change and other stressors within and across ecosystems.

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Canada’s Wild Salmon Policy Implementation
California – Nevada Interstate Compact

This compact, once ratified, will creat a joint water commission (California & Nevada) to administer water rights in the Walker, Truckee, and Carson Rivers, as well as Lake Tahoe.

 

Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area

Congress designated the Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area “to provide for the interpretation… of the unique and significant contributions to our national heritage of cultural and historic lands, waterways and structures within the Heritage Area.” The Cache la Poudre River Heritage Area is one of 37 National Heritage Areas (as of 2006) and was the first to be established west of the Mississippi. The Heritage Area extends for 45 miles and includes the lands within the 100-year flood plain of the Cache la Poudre River. It begins in Larimer County at the eastern edge of the Roosevelt National Forest and ends east of Greeley, ¼ miles west of the confluence with the South Platte.

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Brandywine Conservancy

To conserve the natural and cultural resources of the Brandywine River watershed and other selected areas with a primary emphasis on conservation of water quantity and quality

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Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program

To control the quality of their environment through regional communication and cooperation among municipal, state, and federal agencies responsible for managing the Bay and its watershed.

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Boston Harbor Islands Partnership

The mission of the Boston Harbor Islands, a national park area, is to protect the islands as a resource of national significance and to make the island system an integral part of the life of the surrounding communities and region, while improving public knowledge and access for education, recreation, and tranquility within an urban area.

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Blue Water Baltimore

Blue Water Baltimore’s mission is to restore the quality of Baltimore’s rivers, streams and Harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities. We work towards a future when our neighborhood streams are safe for fishing and swimming and our clean harbor is the pride of our city.

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Blue Ridge Foothills Conservancy

To conserve, through voluntary land protection, the agricultural, scenic, natural, historic, and recreational resources that define the rural character of the communities.

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Blue Ridge-Berryessa Partnership

The Blue Ridge-Berryessa Partnership is a collaborative among private landowners, public agencies, non-profit groups, businesses, and the general public who enjoy the region’s natural, agricultural, recreational, and historical resources. Encompassing over 785,000 acres within the upper Putah and Cache Creek watersheds, this region is characterized by both its wild-lands and land-based economic enterprises, including working ranches, vineyards, and recreation-based businesses. It encompasses portions of Lake, Colusa, Yolo, Napa, and Solano counties and is part of the Coast Range ecological zone that extends north into Oregon.

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Blaine County Land, Water and Wildlife Program

The Blaine County Land, Water, and Wildlife Program is a voter approved Levy that aids in the funding of conservation easments in Blaine County, Idaho.

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Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor

The Blackstone River runs from Worcester, MA to Providence, RI. Its waters powered the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, RI, America’s first successful cotton spinning mill. This creative spark began the nation’s transformation from Farm to Factory. Today, the Blackstone River Valley is a special type of National Park – a living landscape containing thousands of natural and historic treasures.

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Blackfoot Challenge

The Blackfoot Challenge is a landowner-based group that coordinates management of the Blackfoot River, its tributaries, and adjacent lands.

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Big Hole Watershed Committee

The Big Hole Watershed Committee has developed several tools with local government and agencies that aim to protect the corridor along the Big Hole River in Montana. Our diverse stakeholders find consensus to foster sustainability through education, management, and restoration of our river valley.

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Biophilic Cities Project

The Biophilic Cities Project is an umbrella term that refers to research and policy work on biophilic cities, both domestically and internationally, by Professor Tim Beatley and his team at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. Its principal aim is to advance the theory and practice of planning for biophilic cities, through a combination of collaborative research, dialogue and exchange, and teaching.

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Belle Fourche River Compact
Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance

To conserves the lands, water quality, and natural heritage of the Belgrade Lakes Watershed

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Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership

To accelerate the conservation, protection, restoration, and enhancement of habitat for native Atlantic coastal, estuarine-dependent, and diadromous fishes through partnerships between federal, tribal, state, local, and other entities.

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Bear River Compact

The original Bear River Compact of 1958 and the Amended Bear River Compact of 1980, in conjunction with the Bylaws of the Bear River Compact Commission, various court decrees, and the laws of the States of Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah, establish the framework under which the waters of the Bear River are divided. This framework regulates how the waters of the Bear River are distributed to water users in Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah as the River threads its way in and out of state lines, first in a northerly direction, then with a turn to the west and a reversal of directions to the south, and eventually terminating in the Great Salt Lake.

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Beaver Hills Initiative

Working together for a sustainable region, through shared initiatives and collaborative action. The Initiative has grown to over 20 member organizations, which includes four local governments: Strathcona County, Lamont County, Beaver County and Leduc County in Alberta. In addition, the provincial and federal government, local residents, indigenous organizations, NGOs and academia comprise the list of member organizations.

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Barnegat Bay Partnership

To restore, maintain, protect, and enhance the natural resources of the Barnegat Bay estuary and its contributing watershed through the 21st century.

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Atlas Timberlands Partnership

To learn how to balance the dual missions of ecological protection and sustainable, productive forest management.

Atlantic Coast Joint Venture

To provide a forum for federal, state, regional and local partners to coordinate and improve the effectiveness of bird conservation planning and implementation in the Atlantic Flyway region of the United States.

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Arkansas River Compact

Allocates water in Arkansas River, primarily based on 1948 conditions, between Colorado and Kansas. Provisions of the compact are administered by an interstate agency. This agency also oversees operations of the John Martin Reservoir.

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Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan

On May 2, 1996, Travis County and the City of Austin were jointly issued a regional permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that allows incidental “take” of eight locally occurring federally-listed endangered species under Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act. “Take” is the removal of occupied endangered species habitat or species displacement due to development of habitat areas. This community-based solution, referred to as the Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan (“BCCP”), calls for the creation of a preserve system to protect these eight endangered species as well as 27 other species believed to be at risk.  The BCCP is a 30 year regional permit that allows for incidental take outside of proposed preserve lands, and provides mitigation for new public schools, roads and infrastructure projects of the participating agencies (Travis County, the City of Austin, and the Lower Colorado River Authority . Landowners and developers may elect to participate in the BCCP to mitigate for development of endangered species habitat rather than mitigating directly through the USFWS.

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Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative is an applied science and management partnership working to protect natural lands, valued resources and the biological diversity that provide environmental benefits and services to the human communities across the region.

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Appalachian Trail Landscape Conservation Initiative

To the preservation and management of the natural, scenic, historic, and cultural resources associated with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail in order to provide primitive outdoor-recreation and educational opportunities for Trail visitors.

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Animas-La Plata Project

The Animas-La Plata Project was approved by Congress in 1968 in order to provide water for irrigation, municipal, and industrial uses. This project is still under construction (completion date set for summer 2012) and it’s goals have evolved to also meet the water rights of the Southern Ute Indian and Ute Mountain Ute Tribes, as established in the Water Rights Settlement Act 1986.

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Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture

To restore and sustain viable populations of native birds and their habitats in the Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture through effective, collaborative partnerships.

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American Prairie Reserve

American Prairie Reserve is focused on three main goals:To accumulate and wisely manage, based on sound science, enough private land to create and maintain a fully-functioning prairie-based wildlife reserve. To provide a variety of public access opportunities to this wildlife amenity. To ensure that the land remains productive in a way that contributes significantly to the local economy.

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Alliance for the Wild Rockies

The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has an initiative to protect more than 20 million acres of the Northern Rockies in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Wahington, and Oregon. The project is called the The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), which they hope to pass through Congress.

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Alabama Rivers and Streams Network

Strategic Habitat Units for the conservation of imperiled freshwater species in Alabama

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Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The ABSI LCC promotes coordination, dissemination, and development of applied science to inform conservation of natural and cultural resources in the face of climate change and other landscape-scale stressors.​

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Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership

APNEP collaborates with diverse partners to identify, protect, and restore the significant resources of the Albemarle-Pamlico estuarine system of North Carolina and Virginia.

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Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative

The A2A Collaborative facilitates a network of partner organizations working to connect lands and people across the Algonquin to Adirondacks region, to enhance a critical link for biodiversity and resilience in eastern North America. Since much of the land in the region is privately owned, A2A works in partnership with landowners,  government agencies and public organizations to link habitat in ways that respect owners, benefit the land, and contribute to economic and social well-being.

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Agricultural Stewardship Association

To protect the vital and irreplaceable farm and forest lands in Washington and Rensselaer counties for the benefit of the community and generations to come.

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Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission

To create a viable Albany Pine Bush Preserve and to protect and manage the unique and endangered natural communities of the Albany Pine Bush for ecological, recreational, and educational benefits.

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Adirondack Park

To protect the public and private resources within the “Blue Line” of the Adirondack Park through the exercise of the powers and duties of the Agency, as provided by law.

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Accokeek Foundation

The Accokeek Foundation cultivates passion for the natural and cultural heritage of Piscataway Park (Maryland) and commitment to stewardship and sustainability.

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