Starting in January 2018, the Maine West initiative embarked on an innovative mapping project to prioritize land conservation in western Maine. Unlike most of the Regional Conservation Partnerships (RCPs), Maine West’s membership draws organizations with community development, education, and health foci into their conservation efforts. It is only…
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Webinar: Conducting Easement Monitoring from the Air: Tips and Tricks
Join LightHawk to learn more about conducting aerial monitoring flights to survey your Land Trust’s conservation easements. Saving our partners on average 75 hours of staff time for every hour of flight, aerial easement monitoring is a great addition to your easement monitoring toolkit. We’ll hear from Jeremy Puckett of Colorado West Land Trust and LightHawk volunteer pilot Robert Keller, Jr. about what has worked well for them, and how to best prepare for these types of flights. Date: May 22…
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Four Network Principles for Collaboration Success
Hi friends, "Four Network Principles for Collaboration Success" is a quick and informative read about principles that can help build a strong RCP and RCP Network. The article is by Jane Wei-Skillern at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford Graduate School of Business and Nora Silver at the University of California at Berkeley. Although told as a set of lessons to funders, I found it useful to read this from the perspective of an RCP and Network coordinator. Principle 1:…
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Current and Potential Sources of Funding for RCPs
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- Network for Landscape Conservation (NLC) Landscape Conservation Catalyst Fund - grants for maturing RCPs.
- RCP Climate-Resilient Biodiversity…
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Williams College Center for Environmental Studies (CES) is seeking internship postings from RCP members and other organizations and agencies.
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Starting in January 2018, the Maine West initiative embarked on an innovative mapping project to prioritize land conservation in western Maine. Unlike most of the Regional Conservation Partnerships (RCPs), Maine West’s membership draws organizations…
