Individuals and groups are critical to realizing the W&W Vision. They include:
- Landowners & Individuals Families own most of the woodland in New England. Community leaders volunteer to make the places they live reflect the high value they place in treed parks, fields, farms, woods, and natural areas.
- Non-profit Organizations Environmental groups, watershed associations, and conservation land trusts coordinate and cooperate to do more.
- Private Companies Wood producers, real estate firms, foresters and businesses champion a largely forested New England landscape along with other members of the conservation community.
- Woodland Councils Regional partnerships and other groups and individuals are achieving greater conservation success in their regions and in support of the Wildlands and Woodlands Vision.
- State & Local Governments Agencies, boards, and commissions participate at the scale of their authority. Towns and cities can plan for more wildlands on public lands and encourage the conservation of more woodlands. They can ensure new development sustains their green infrastructure.
- Federal Government Federal agencies work with partnerships to achieve on the ground results consistent with national priorities.
- Foundations Board members and Program staff foster conservation innovation and advancement.
Partners work with each other to achieve more than they could on their own. They do so in a variety of ways that all reflect a shifting in how they do their own work. The shift is about sharing best practices with their peers, working across boundaries, having a regional focus, coordinating activities and resources, and leading innovative activities consistent with their own mission and with the goal of realizing the W&W Vision.
