Protecting Forests for Clean Water (2024)

This assessment report provides a baseline understanding of the current state of how land trusts are protecting water quality and is a catalyst for discussion, transformation and support for land trusts seeking to pioneer creative approaches to restoring and protecting Great Lakes water quality.

Land and water are inextricably connected, and protecting one often necessitates protecting the other. This book offers practical tools and resources to help land trusts address water-related conservation values in their private land conservation work.

This guide is a resource for communities, water providers, land trusts, and other conservation partners to use voluntary land conservation to secure community drinking water sources.

This guidebook contains information about water resources and water rights, conservation tools, best practices and practical guidance. Section 1 presents an overview of water resources and water rights in Arizona.

Choose Clean Water Coalition's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice, includes links to toolkits and other resources.

Learn how your land trust can tap into this underutilized source of federal funding to protect land and improve water quality in your community.​

As the USFS's "Climate Change and Water: In Brief" summarizes, declining water quantity and quality are becoming common issues, especially where our demands exceed supply. Growing water demands then put aquatic resources and other services at risk because less water is available to sustain them.

Land and water are inextricably connected, and protecting one often necessitates protecting the other. This book offers practical tools and resources to help land trusts address water-related conservation values in their private land conservation work.

With help from experts in water policy, law and science, this course will offer resources and approaches to working with water through the perspective of western land trusts.