Topic: Networks

The National Park Service manages national parks, some national monuments, and other related properties. Their mission is to preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.

The Network for Landscape Conservation's mission is to advance collaborative, community-grounded conservation at the landscape scale as an essential approach to connect and protect nature, culture, and community. They pursue specific, targeted actions to further the practice, policy, and performance of landscape conservation

The North Atlantic LCC is a conservation science-management partnership, consisting of federal agencies, states, tribes, universities and private organizations, focused on collaboratively developing science-based recommendations and decision-support tools to implement on-the-ground conservation.

The North East State Foresters Association (NEFA) is the state foresters of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York cooperating with the USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry. Their mission is to keep the region’s forests as forests, to assure their productivity and health, and to support the businesses and forest landowners that depend on the forest for their livelihood.

The Open Space Institute supports conservation on a permanent, landscape scale. They work with government agencies, landowners and local land trusts to acquire land to protect diverse landscapes; preserve habitat for rare or endangered species; ensure water quality; facilitate wildlife adaptation to climate change; and enhance recreational access