Specialty: Landowner Engagement

The Quabbin to Cardigan Initiative (Q2C) is a collaborative, landscape-scale effort to conserve the Monadnock Highlands of north-central Massachusetts and western New Hampshire. The Q2C partners share a vision of consolidating the permanent protection of the region’s most ecologically significant forest blocks, and key connections between them for wildlife passage and human recreation.

The Quiet Corner Initiative (QCI) is the outreach and engagement arm of the Yale Forests and was created to improve the capacity for sustainable land management and stewardship in northeastern Connecticut. QCI’s programming focuses on three main topic areas: the promotion of sound forestland management, the development of renewable energy, and the expansion of small-scale agriculture

The Rensselaer Plateau Working Forest Initiative in New York provides support to landowners who want to manage or conserve their forests and woodlands. Their goal is to increase access to technical and financial assistance that supports landowners and their property rights.

The Forever Farmland Initiative is a collaborative effort to accelerate the pace of farmland conservation in the Massachusetts Connecticut River Valley region through strategic conservation planning, raising public awareness, and stimulating private charitable investments to leverage state and federal funding for farmland conservation

The H2H partner network advances the pace and practice of regional land protection and stewardship from the Hudson River in New York to the Housatonic River in Connecticut by collaborating across boundaries to enhance the connection between people and nature.

The Kennebec Woodland Partnership is a regional conservation initiative focused on the sustainability of Kennebec County, Maine's woodlands and on a landscape-level approach to conservation.

The 12 Rivers Conservation Initiative accelerates conservation of the forested landscape from the Kennebec River to the Georges River in Maine with the goal of doubling the amount of protected lands and ensuring multiple human benefits for generations to come.

The Berkshire-Taconic Regional Conservation Partnership envisions a region in which the fabric of the natural and scenic landscape, including the region’s forests, farms, rivers, and wetlands, remains intact and functional, supporting and interdependent with local and regional economies and high quality of life. The organization spans the Taconic Mountain region through Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Vermont.

Cold Hollow to Canada's mission is to maintain ecosystem integrity, biological diversity, and forest resiliency throughout the Cold Hollow, Vermont, to Canada region, with a focus on community-led stewardship and the conservation of our working landscape in the face of a changing climate.