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Ecosystem Marketplace is the leading information service about markets and incentives that support conservation and restoration. EIP Partner Adam Davis was the Editor-in-Chief, selecting and managing the team that developed the website, and is currently Strategic Advisor. www.ecosystemmarketplace.com |
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The Katoomba Group is the host organization of the Ecosystem Marketplace, the Katoomba Group is an international working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy industries, research institutions, the financial world, and environmental NGOs dedicated to advancing markets for some of the ecosystem services. www.katoombagroup.org |
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The Nature Conservancy is one of the leading conservation organizations in the world. Founded in 1951, the organization has protected more than 117 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide - and we operate more than 100 marine conservation projects. EIP works closely with TNC to identify high conservation value projects, and to manage properties effectively. www.nature.org |
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The Trust for Public Land is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come. EIP works closely with TPL to identify high conservation value projects. www.tpl.org |
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The Conservation Fund is one of the nation’s foremost environmental nonprofit organizations. TCF is dedicated to protecting America’s most important landscapes and waterways for future generations. The Conservation Fund pioneers a balanced, non-advocacy, non-membership approach to conservation, one that blends environmental and economic goals and objectives. Since its founding in 1985, the Fund has helped its partners safeguard wildlife habitat, working farms and forests, community greenspace, and historic sites totaling nearly 6 million acres nationwide. EIP Partner Nick Dilks served as Vice President for Real Estate at TCF; during his tenure as, the Fund conserved over 2 million acres worth $1 billion nationwide. www.conservationfund.org |
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Ducks Unlimited is the nation's leader in wetland habitat conservation. Ducks Unlimited conserves, restores and manages wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfowl. Partnering with private landowners, agencies and the scientific community, Ducks Unlimited has protected more than 12 million acres in North America. www.ducks.org |
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American Farmland Trust protects the nation's farm and ranch land, keeping it healthy and improving the economic stability of agriculture through promotion of Payments for Ecosystem Services like water quality and carbon sequestration. American Farmland Trust works in partnership with farms as well as local, state and federal leaders to develop legislation, implement policies and execute programs that keep farmers on their land and protect our environment. www.farmland.org |

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The Blackfoot Challenge is a landowner-based group that coordinates management of the Blackfoot River, its tributaries, and adjacent lands. It is organized locally and known nationally as a model for preserving the rural character and natural beauty of a watershed. Although its charter dates to 1993, Blackfoot landowners have played an instrumental stewardship role since the late 1970s—bringing conservation easement legislation, walk-in hunting areas and recreation corridor management to Montana. EIP Partner Fred Danforth has worked closely with the Blackfoot Challenge in the development of the first mitigation bank in the state of Montana, the Upper Clark Fork Mitigation Bank. www.blackfootchallenge.org www.ucfmb.com |
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The National Mitigation Banking Association was established in 1998; it promotes federal legislation and regulatory policy that encourages mitigation banking and conservation banking as a means of compensating for adverse impacts to our nation's environment. www.mitigationbanking.org |
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The Lyme Timber Company is a New Hampshire Limited Partnership organized in 1976 to invest in timberland and rural real estate for its own account and in partnership with other investors. Lyme specializes in the acquisition, sustainable management, and sale of large forestland tracts. |