Strategic Conservation

The Conservation Fund’s Strategic Conservation Services use a green infrastructure approach — simultaneously focusing on the best lands to conserve and the best lands to accommodate development — to help communities balance environmental and economic goals through strategies that lead to smarter, sustainable land uses.

Every community is unique, with varying natural resources and needs. The Conservation Fund draws from its strategic conservation toolkit to help city and county planners, regional and watershed organizations, natural resource agencies and nonprofits design comprehensive and customized strategies that balance land protection and development.

The Fund’s services include:

• Rapid Assessments: The Fund performs rapid assessments that inventory current community resources and identify conservation priorities and goals.
• Green Infrastructure Plans: The Fund develops comprehensive green infrastructure plans that identify community stakeholders, map green space networks, and develop strategies for implementation.
• Compatible Land Use Planning: The Fund develops partnership strategies for communities to collaborate with managers of forests, parks, refuges, military installations, and other publicly owned lands.

Strategic Conservation Resources

• Strategic Conservation brochure (Download PDF (600K))
• Project Profiles
• Greeninfrastructure.net features case studies, publications, training courses and links to other resources.

For more information contact us.