Mapping hte Future Using regional planning and partnerships to protect new hampshire's forsted landscape

摘要

To advance the statewide conservation vision outlined in New Hampshire Everlasting, the Forest Society has been engaged in a systematic effort to tailor its land-protection efforts to each region of New Hampshire. We believe that we can best achieve our statewide conservation goals—and best help our partners achieve theirs—by understanding the unique natural resource values, community dynamics, and partner and funder networks in each region. Our approach entails working with public and private partners—other land trusts, state and federal conservation agencies, regional planning commissions, etc.—to develop rigorous science-based conservation plans in each region, then working in concert to implement the plan via voluntary, willing seller/donorland conservation over a sustained period of time. The most established example of this regional approach is the Quabbin-to-Cardigan (Q2C) initiative in western New Hampshire, which has attracted millions of dollars from public agencies and private foundations to targeted land protection efforts. Launched in 2003, this two-state, multi-partner undertaking is working to conserve the region's largest remaining areas of intact, interconnected ecologically significant forest. (To learn more about the Q2C project, please visit: http://q2cpartnership.org.)