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
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