Stand by your land: land trust partnerships unite preservation of open lands with that of biologically diverse lands - and take on the sprawl that is eating away at America

Article Abstract:

The use of land trusts to preserve open lands and protect biological diversity is discussed, with a focus on cooperation and partnerships between local land trusts and chapters of the Nature Conservancy. Projects on the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin, and on the Yampa River in Colorado are described.

United States, Methods, Biological diversity conservation, Biodiversity conservation, Open spaces, Land trusts

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Cosumnes River, California

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A levee accident has fostered restoration efforts along California's Cosumnes River near the Sierra Nevada. A grove of trees rising from lands flooded when the levee broke has encouraged conservation scientists to conduct controlled levee breaches to foster restoration efforts, rather than laboriously replanting trees and vegetation by hand.

California, Stream ecology, Floodplain ecology, Restoration ecology

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Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie: Kansas and Oklahoma

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This article discusses the legacy of Katharine Ordway's efforts to conserve Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie. Topics include landscape repair and prescribed burning.

Oklahoma, Kansas, Finance, Donations, Wildlife conservation, Wildlife refuges, Nature reserves, Prairies, Conservationists, Prescribed burning, Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, Kansas, Ordway, Katharine

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