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The Role of Land Trusts in Landscape-Scale
A thesis completed for the School of
Introduction
Over the last ten years, the number of landscape-scale collaboration initiatives involving landtrusts and both public and private partners has increased. Given that the success of local land trusts depends in large part on their grassroots origins and connections, why are these organization joining together to create large-scale regional initiatives? What challenges are they facing in these efforts? Do the benefits of working regionally outweigh the costs? In order to explore answers to these questions, original data were gathered through through interviews with executive directors or key staff emmebers of five landscape-scale collaborative initiatives. Case studies included: The Bay Area Open Space Council (California), The Mississippi Blufflands Alliance (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa), The Michigan Dune Alliance (Michigan), The North Quabbin Regional Landscape Partnership (Massachusetts), The Northern Rockies Initiatives (unofficial name) (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, British Columbia and Alberta).
The project is available in PDF format by individual chapters and subsections. To download the entire report, click here.
Chapter 3: Summary of Case Studies
Chapter 5: Factors Contributing to the Success of Collaborative Efforts
Chapter 6: Challenges of Collaboration
Chapter 7: Potential Future Changes
Chapter 8: Conclusions and Recommendation
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