Developing and Evaluating Conservation Programs
Securing public funding for conservation programs is one step toward achieving a community's conservation goals. The critical next step is establishing the policies and procedures needed to attain those goals in a timely and cost-effective manner.
The Trust for Public Land helps local governments develop new land conservation programs and evaluate the effectiveness of existing ones. Working with agency staff, elected officials, and community leaders, TPL provides a framework for implementing community land protection objectives, together with the tools and templates needed to create an effective and efficient program.
Best Practices Handbook
Based on an in-depth study of local conservation programs nationwide, TPL's Conservation Program Handbook: A guide for local government acquisitions of open space and parks, provides all the information that community leaders need to
initiate or evaluate a local conservation land acquisition program:
- Best practices for a range of essential topics critical in establishing or evaluating conservation programs
- Case studies from communities across the county
- Complete list of all current federal matching fund programs
- Examples of key documents, policies and procedures
