Topic: RCP

The Orange County Headwaters Project in Vermont works to provide information, assistance, and leverage to landowners who are interested in conserving their land, supports sustainable forestry, watershed protection, and other conservation goals, encourages civic engagement, and demonstrates the benefits of working collaboratively to accomplish landscape-level conservation

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 Lower Connecticut River Land Trust works to conserve, study, steward, and promote the unique values and scientific significance, natural and working lands, and historic, ecologic, cultural, and scenic resources of the communities of the lower Connecticut River Valley Region.

The Resilient Taunton Watershed Network (RTWN) overarching goal is to promote the resiliency of the Taunton Watershed of Massachusetts in the face of climate change and development, considering ecological outcomes as well as economic, social, and environmental justice issues.

The Maine Mountain Collaborative is a coalition of statewide, regional and national conservation and forestry organizations convened to address new forest conservation challenges and opportunities in the Maine Appalachian Mountain Corridor. They bring a shared focus to raise awareness of the region and innovate new financial strategies to accelerate the pace and scale of forest conservation and restoration in one of the world’s most intact temperate forests.