Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change

As climate change impacts intensify around the world, nature-based carbon sequestration and storage are essential tools to addressing the climate crisis. The question remains where to focus conservation in order to maximize climate benefits. The Conservation Carbon Map can help answer that and more.

The Adaptation Workbook is a structured process to consider the potential effects of climate change and design land management and conservation actions that can help prepare for changing conditions.

Open Space Institute developed this guide to help groups that protect and steward land determine how much carbon a forest stores today, and how much additional carbon could be sequestered by 2050.

American Farmland Trust released Smart Solar℠ principles for solar development that will ensure we maintain our ability to produce food, fuel and fiber to sustain our nation for generations to come.

A wildlife action plan serves as a state's guiding document for managing and conserving species and habitats before they become too rare or costly to restore. Congress charged states and territories to develop a State Wildlife Action Plan in 2002, and the New York Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy was completed in 2005.

The State Forest Action Plan is a 10-year strategic plan for New York's forestry community. The purpose of the Plan is to provide long‐term, comprehensive, coordinated strategies for investing state, federal and leveraged partner resources in major management and landscape priorities.

This project selection criteria form from the accredited Montezuma Land Conservancy includes checklists to assess a property's goals, purposes, public benefit, feasibility and other factors.

​This tool allows non-profits, communities, and policy makers to view the resilience results and use​ basic analytic tools to understand the Resilient Sites Report and assess specific areas.

The Open Space Institute and the Land Trust Alliance are pleased to announce the 2024 Land and Climate Grant Program. This online information session will make sure you’re able to build the best application possible.