Strategic Conservation

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

Strategic Conservation recognizes that there are limited resources available to identify and protect the lands most suitable for conservation, and therefore, competing values, needs, and opportunities need to be evaluated in order to develop the most efficient and effective land conservation strategies.

Every community is unique, so we provide customized services that reflect each individual scenario. The Conservation Fund draws from its strategic conservation toolkit to help corporations, transportation agencies, military services, city and county elected officials, 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:

• Strategic conservation guidance: Consultation to solve complex conservation planning questions and to design effective conservation strategies that foster partnerships, collaboration, and leverage of available resources.
• GIS modeling and mapping: Compilation and synthesis of data to develop high quality cartographic products and to design conservation databases and tools that support decision making and resource allocation.
• Green infrastructure plans: Development of comprehensive green infrastructure plans that identify community priorities and goals, inventory current community assets, map green space networks, develop strategies for implementation, and build capacity for communities to achieve their conservation vision.
• Decision support tool design and implementation: Integrate data, knowledge, and analyses (e.g. ecosystem services, optimization, suitability analysis) to support land use decision making and prudent use of resources.
• Mitigation support: Identify and evaluate mitigation opportunities for agencies and business organizations from Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs), transportation improvement projects, military compatible use buffer programs, and pipeline/transmission/energy corridors.

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.