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Regional Assessments
CCT’s conservation assessments provide a roadmap for future conservation work in a geographical region. An assessment identifies the area’s short and long-term needs and opportunities and outlines specific strategies to ensure the area’s protection. These strategies include acquisition (fee or easement), restoration, stewardship, planning, capacity building, and policy development. It also can describe how the work of individual organizations and agencies fit into the bigger conservation picture.
A regional assessment explores such issues as public funding capability, the capacity of local land trusts to undertake conservation projects, overlapping missions and priorities of organizations working in the area, water quality issues, the health of wildlife corridors, the costs associated with addressing the region’s needs, and other such issues. Information is gathered through a combination of interviews and research of organization and government plans and policies. The conservation assessment also includes a detailed mapping component that results in composite resource maps to guide strategic conservation planning. The maps delineate resource rich lands, lands constrained from development by natural features, protected lands and land ownership and enable prioritization of conservation activity to address those lands at greatest risk of development.
Our assessments are often used to design plans for individuals or families interested in conservation philanthropy in Colorado. By using the area assessments, CCT can outline a detailed decision-making process that can be referred to when determining projects to fund. They also enable CCT to advise donors on how to leverage their investments by directing donors to projects where their gifts can attract other private or public matching funds.
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