Strategic Conservation
Strategic Conservation is a process that produces tools to aid decision makers in identifying, prioritizing, pursuing, and protecting those specific tracts of land that will most effectively and efficiently achieve the land trust's mission.
Mapping Initiatives to Help Land Trusts with Strategic Conservation
There are two mapping projects that will be valuable resources to land trusts designing and implementing strategic conservation across the U.S. They will also help individual land trusts, the Alliance and others tell the impressive story of private land conservation in America.
Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD-US) (PDF, 183.93 KB)
National Conservation Easement Database (NCED)
Sample Strategic Conservation Plans
Strategic Conservation Planning by Land Trusts: Protecting Freshwater Resources in the Southeast US - 2010 (PDF, 16.05 MB)
These strategic plans by eight land trusts in the Southeast serve as models to integrate land conservation goals focused on the protection of critical stream corridors, watersheds and water supplies.
Final Report Land Prioritization in Amherst County, Virginia - 2007 (PDF, 1.55 MB)
This strategic plan by the Central Virginia Land Conservancy defines a conservation land priortization process for Amherst County, Virginia , and to produce maps illustrating areas of high and low conservation value.
Florida Ecological Greenways Network Plan 2004 Amherst County conservation prioritization and map - 2004 (PDF, 532.11 KB)
This strategic conservation plan was prepared for Conservation Trust for Florida.
Strategic Conservation Planning Midwest Case Studies - 2008 (PDF, 1.85 MB)
Case Study 1: Central Indiana Land Trust, Inc. Strategic Conservation Planning case study
There are more than 50 additional reports, articles, and case studies available on the Land Trust Alliance's Digital Library - The Learning Center.
Publications
Green Infrastructure | Organizational Member price: 35.00
Providing both the historical framework for the importance of greenways and green space networks, and practical advice on how to design and implement them, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to understand innovative approaches to conservation-minded land use.
Resources
A Plan for the Land (2009) Saving Land
Land Trust GIS
Geographic Information System (GIS) is a powerful mapping and analysis tool for land trusts seeking to conserve nature, enhance communities and support.
Pennsylvania Land Trust Association - Strategic Conservation Projects
PALTA has collected an annotated list of Pennsylvania strategic conservation projects and methodologies.
Cornell University Strategic Conservation Collection
The Genesee Land Trust Conservation Plan
Southern Madison Heritage Trust Strategic Land Protection Plan
Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust Strategic Land Conservation Plan
Great Works Land Trust Strategic Plan
Conservation Tools.org Library
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