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Because the land needs a good advocate.
Advocacy Matters, LLC founder, Gwendolyn Lacy, principal attorney, consultant and mediator, works with private landowners, regional, local and national land conservancies, as well as governmental agencies and environmental organizations to actively preserve those special places where life-long memories and legacies are forged. Client Services, include drafting and/or review of conservation easements, land acquisitions, historic preservation, mediation of easement violations, legislative advocacy, succession planning and non-profit capacity building.
Serving the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest Regions of the U.S.
Remote and/or onsite in Delaware, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Texas National
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The Lyme Timber Company LP is a private timberland investment manager that focuses on the acquisition and sustainable management of lands with unique conservation values. Since its founding in 1976, the Company has followed a disciplined and value-oriented approach to investing in forestland and rural real estate in the U.S. and Canada.
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Upstream Tech partners with nonprofit and for-profit organizations working towards ecological restoration, natural land conservation, carbon emissions reduction and sequestration, and renewable energy. Our Lens web-based platform helps land trusts to easily and efficiently monitor conservation easements, allowing users to automatically generate monitoring reports compliant with Land Trust Alliance standards. Lens compiles a broad range of public and private satellite and aerial data to allow users to view and monitor their properties using high resolution and ecological data throughout the year. Remote monitoring complements on-the-ground efforts by helping staff target their field visits, which reduces monitoring workload and increases the quality of information about each site. We host regular demo webinars of Lens for land trusts - please subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Twitter for updates. As a public benefit corporation, we prioritize opportunities aligned with our climate and conservation mission.
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With offices in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Oregon and America's largest portfolio of compliance forest offset projects from Maine to Alaska, we offer landowners a single-source solution for creating and monetizing their forest carbon assets. Combining unparalleled project development experience with extensive carbon market knowledge, our in-house team offers the most comprehensive forest carbon project development and commercialization service in the United States.
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We offer a multitude of land and forest management services with a focus on sustainable and comprehensive management. Our services include forest carbon consulting, forest inventory and appraisal, forest management plans, mapping solutions, and timber sale administration.
To wisely manage, conserve, and utilize our shared natural resources for the benefit of not only economic returns but also to the perpetual existence of our forests and the life within them using scientifically-based and ecologically-sound forest and habitat management principles.
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Land and Water Connections Consulting helps make communities, and the ecosystems they rely on, healthier and more resilient through strategic planning, equity-driven engagement, and action-oriented research. We focus on conservation, climate change, and equitable access to nature. Much of our work with land trusts involves strategic conservation planning and training and guidance related to community engagement.
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The purpose of the Environmental Lands Program’s is to identify, acquire, preserve and protect endangered, environmentally sensitive and significant land in Manatee County. Funds to acquire, improve and manage land were approved by Manatee County voters in a 2020 referendum. The Program operates within the Manatee County Department of Parks and Natural Resources in coordination with partners, volunteers and Environmental Land Management Acquisition Committee members, who advise the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners on related matters.
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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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Research-based strategy and management consulting for the 21st century social sector.
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Brenda Schick, principal of Singing Stream Conservation Consultants, has over 20 years of experience in land conservation across the United States. Singing Stream's services include assessing and accessing public and private funding, completion of due diligence (appraisals, surveys, etc), strategic brainstorming and mentoring in project design and much more. Brenda was the Vice President for land protection at the Trust for Public Land and she is eager to share her expertise to help you achieve your mission.
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Davey (The Davey Tree Expert Company / Davey Resource Group) provides expertise in natural area management & stewardship: stream stabilization, wetland restoration, environmental design, vegetation management, stormwater management and compliance, urban and community forestry, resource assessments, mitigation services and invasive species management, among other ecological and tree services. Since 1880, Davey has been the industry leader in providing tree care services and is an employee owned company.
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The West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation is a special-purpose public nonprofit created to facilitate the redevelopment of former commercial, industrial, and mining properties with environmental issues in order to promote property reuse and sustainable economic development in West Virginia. We are authorized by statute to operate a Voluntary Land Stewardship Program and take on both short- and long-term monitoring and maintenance of sites that have been remediated pursuant to a state or federal environmental program.