Resources and Funding Opportunities for RCPs

Please share other funding opportunities and resources by emailing Bill Labich, Coordinator for The RCP Network, or by posting it on our Linked-in Group page.

Watershed Protection and Conservation Resources for RCPs:

• US EPA's Healthy Watersheds Initiative
• Grants and Funding Sources for Watershed Protection
• Economic Benefits of Protecting Healthy Watersheds:  Fact Sheet
• US Forest Service's Private Forests, Public Benefits
• Kira Jacobs, US EPA Specialist, on Benefits of Working with Water Suppliers and Watershed Managers (her talk begins at 20:27)

Current Funding Opportunities for RCPs:

• Open Space Institute's Western Massachusetts Land Protection Fund Grants

Past Funding Opportunities for RCPs:

• Open Space Institute's Transborder Fund - US/Canada - applications due Oct. 3, 2012. You must request an application.
• USFS State and Private Forestry Redesign Grants - project applications deadline has been postponed until further notice
• America's Great Outdoors Landscape Conservation Stewardship Program  -  on-line application was due by July 31, 2012

Past RCP Gatherings:

• PowerPoints, Notes, and Video from the 2012 RCP Network Gathering
• PowerPoints and handouts from the 2011 RCP Gathering

Aggregation and/or Collaborative Conservation:

• Landowner Participation Letter
• Western MA Aggregation Memorandum of Agreement
• Procedure for calculating Stewardship Fund

Collaborative Decision-Making and Partnerships:

• US Fish and Wildlife's Partnership Portal
• Red Lodge Clearinghouse
• Creating Successful Collaborations in the West: Lessons from the Field by Tilt et al.

Strategic Conservation Mapping

• Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions by TNC's Eastern Conservation Science: Mark G. Anderson, Melissa Clark, and Arlene Olivero Sheldon

Enagaging Family Forest Owners 

• The Sustaining Family Forests Initiative's Tools for Engaging Landowners Effectively
• Information on Engaging Landowners

Other Conservation Resources:

• State by State list of resources
• Private Landowner Network's Yellow pages
• Draft chapter on Woodland Conservation, part of a new edition of Rural by Design by Randall Arendt

Other Large Landscape Conservation Initiative Resources:

• North Atlantic Conservation Cooperative Annual Report 2011
• Practitioners Network for Large Landscape Conservation Initiatives
• Northeast Landscapes Atlas