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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…

Started by Bill Labich

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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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Funding Opportunity: The Highlands Conservation Act Competitive Grant Round #2

Posted by Katie Blake on October 1, 2019 at 9:48am

The Highlands Conservation Act Competitive Grant Round #2 is now available at grants.gov (search for "F19AS00365" or "Highlands”).

The deadline is December 2, 2019.

Up to…

Upcoming Workshop: Climate Change Adaptation for Forested Watershed Management

Posted by Katie Blake on October 1, 2019 at 9:42am

On November 7-8 in Westborough, MA, natural resource professionals who work within and manage water supply forests are invited to a workshop to consider the impacts of climate change on forested watersheds with particular emphasis on water supply management. This event will provide opportunities to learn more about current and anticipated effects of…

Funding

Funding Sources for RCPs

Posted by Jody Cologgi on June 26, 2018 at 10:11am

Current and Potential Sources of Funding for RCPs

Funding for Coordination, Education and Outreach, Strategic Conservation Planning, and Organizational Development

Network for Landscape Conservation (NLC) Landscape Conservation Catalyst Fund - grants for maturing RCPs.

RCP…

Jobs and Internships

Want a No-Cost Summer Intern from Williams College?

Posted by Bill Labich on January 4, 2019 at 11:32am

Williams College Center for Environmental Studies (CES) is seeking internship postings from RCP members and other organizations and agencies.

Williams College CES has dozens of capable, passionate, smart and hardworking students who are looking for environmental summer internships. The CES provides stipends to students (assuming they are in good standing and the position meets our criteria) who find unpaid environmental internships in the public and non-profit…