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The structure of this document is meant to act as a manual for site conservation planning for Wisconsin’s land trust community. The manual is broken down into five distinct sections, each of which are designed to help guide the reader through the process of creating a site conservation plan. The sections are as follows:
I. Introduction to Site
Conservation Planning
This section is designed to acquaint the reader with the idea of site conservation planning. The “basics” presented here will build the individual’s understanding of the meaning and importance of conservation planning. It is presented in three segments:
a. What is site conservation planning?
b. The importance of site conservation planning
c. The framework of site conservation planning
II. The site conservation planning process
This section is designed in a “how-to” format. It breaks the planning process down into distinct steps and provides guideline as to how to complete each step.
III. Site conservation plan components
This section tackles the how-to of each individual component of the conservation plan itself. A working site conservation plan typically comprises 8 to 12 sections, and this piece of the manual teaches the reader how to develop each section. This is done by explaining the purpose of the section, providing questions to be answered within the section, offering resources to help find answers to those questions, and giving an example of a completed section.
IV. Site Conservation Plan Executive Summary
The final section offers guidelines to create an effective executive summary of a completed site conservation plan, for use in fundraising and outreach efforts.
V. Sample site conservation plans
In this section you will find three completed
sample plans. These plans cover three distinct geographic areas
focused on different resources and were completed by separate organizations.
All are valid, working plans and display the variety of formats
in which a conservation plan can be presented.
Please contact Karen Bassler at karen [at] gatheringwaters.org or
608-251-9131 x12 with any questions about site conservation planning.
The Site Conservation Planning Manual for
Wisconsin’s Land Trust Community was created for Gathering
Waters Conservancy in 2006 by Sara
DeKok, Master’s Candidate at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies, and Gathering
Waters' Member Relations Director.
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