Strategic Conservation Project Profiles

The following are examples of strategic conservation projects undertaken by the Fund and its partners:

 

The Longleaf Pine: Mapping the Future

NiSource, Inc.: Strategic Planning To Offset Pipeline Impacts

US Department of Defense: Promoting Compatible Use

Civil War Battlefields: Targeting Protection Opportunities

 

Delaware

Kent County Green Infrastructure Assessment

 

Georgia

Metro Atlanta Rapid Parks Assessment Georgia

 

Hawai'i

Assessing Green Infrastructure: Kona Green Infrastructure Assessment

 

Maryland:

US Route 301: Incorporating Environmental Stewardship into Transportation Planning

Cecil County Green Infrastructure Plan

Baltimore County Land Preservation Model

Catoctin Mountain Explorer

Talbot County Green Infrastructure Plan

 

South Carolina

Spartanburg County Rapid Parks Assessment

 

Texas

Lufkin-Angelina County Green Infrastructure Plan

Houston Parks Rapid Assessment

 

Vermont

Vermont Four Towns

 

Virginia

Virginia Green Infrastructure Scoping Study (free download available)

 

West Virginia

Jefferson County Green Infrastructure Assessment

 

Detailed case studies are also available at www.greeninfrastructure.net

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What Is Green Infrastructure?

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We need green infrastructure to balance the gray. The term "green infrastructure" has been used to refer to everything from green roofs to more ecologically friendly stormwater management systems. But what is it really?

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Green Infrastructure in Hawaii

Green infrastructure in Kona embraces the ahupua’a, the ancient Hawaii land division from “the mountain to the sea.” Map prepared by The Conservation Fund.

The Conservation Fund completed a Green Infrastructure Technical Report for the Kona Community Development Plan. The report provides a strategic framework for guiding land development and land conservation decision making within the North Kona and South Kona Planning Districts within the country of Hawai’i.

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The Kona Community Development Plan (CDP) wins the 2009 Outstanding Planning Award from the American Planning Association’s Hawaii Chapter.

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