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 If
you are a landowner who wants to protect your land from development or improve
it to attract wildlife, a land trust who wants to
monitor conservation easements, or a land buyer in search of a retirement
property of high environmental quality, Conservation Partners can help you
achieve these and other goals. See our list of services below.
Services for Farm and Rural Landowners
Conservation
Plans and Practices
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Certified to prepare conservation plans that meet USDA-NRCS
requirements for cost-share funds |
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Installation of conservation practices that meet USDA-NRCS
specifications |
Farm
Energy Audits for Energy Cost Savings
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Trained data collector for MD Farm Energy
Audit Program, which pays for the full cost of the audit and provides
financial assistance for replacing existing fans, motors, heaters, and
lights with energy efficient ones. |
Carbon
and Nutrient Trading Projects
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Development of projects that enable
landowners to receive payments for best management practices at no
cost. |
Land
Preservation
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Preparation of a Preservation Options Report to
determine which federal, state, county, and private land conservation
programs are best suited to your land and your goals for it |
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Guidance on the sale of development rights and other
conservation easements for the purposes of generating income, protecting land from development, setting aside future home
sites for family members, and minimizing estate taxes |
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Preparation of applications to land preservation
programs for the purchase of development rights and other conservation
easements, and representing the landowner’s interests with program
officials throughout the application process |
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Property environmental inventories, computer mapping, and
analyses |
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Property conservation and management master plans |
Land Restoration and Management Projects
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Streambank and shoreline protection and stabilization
emphasizing natural approaches |
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Forest
plantings, improvement, and management |
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Riparian forest buffers and other vegetative buffers and
barriers |
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Wetlands creation, enhancement, and restoration |
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Wildlife habitat creation, enhancement, restoration, and
management |
Grant
Applications and Project
Management
| Overall project management and coordination |
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Grant proposal writing and coordination |
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Obtaining the necessary federal, state, and local permits
and approvals |
Services for Land Trusts and Conservation Organizations
Land Conservation Planning and Policy
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Strategic plans for land conservation acquisitions |
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Policy analysis of proposed land use plans, ordinances, programs,
and development projects |
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Property environmental inventories, computer mapping, and analyses |
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Property use and management master plans |
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GIS services |
Land Restoration and Management
Projects
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Preparation of conservation plans that meet USDA-NRCS
requirements for cost-share funds |
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Installation of conservation practices that meet USDA-NRCS
specifications |
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Streambank and shoreline protection and stabilization emphasizing
natural approaches |
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Forest
plantings, improvement, and management |
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Vegetative buffers and barriers |
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Wetlands creation, enhancement, and restoration |
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Wildlife habitat creation, enhancement, restoration, and
management |
Project Management
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Grant proposal writing and coordination |
| Obtaining the necessary federal, state, and local permits and
approvals |
| Overall project management and coordination |
Stewardship
| Easement compliance monitoring |
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Baseline condition inventories |
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Trail layout, development, and maintenance |
| Public access management |
Services for Conservation
Land
Buyers
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Identification of properties satisfying the buyer’s interests
and requirements |
| Providing overviews for properties of interest, which describe:
property physical and natural characteristics, ownership information and status,
local land use plan and zoning designations and constraints for the property and
surrounding property |
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Guidance on the sale of development
rights and other conservation easements for the purposes of generating
income, protecting land from development, and setting aside future home
sites for family members |
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Preparation of applications to land preservation
programs for the purchase of development rights and other conservation
easements, and representing the landowner’s interests with program
officials throughout the application process |
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