Stewardship Calculator and Handbook
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About This Web Link
We can invest a great deal of time and money in protecting and restoring a site, but the key to achieving lasting conservation outcomes is to ensure that sufficient funding is available for long-term stewardship of the site into the future. Unfortunately, costs associated with long-term stewardship are inherently difficult to predict and often underestimated.
To help tackle this problem, The Nature Conservancy convened national experts to develop a free and simple calculator that estimates stewardship costs and the amount that should be set aside to provide a secure source of future funding.
The calculator can be used by land managers to estimate the long-term stewardship costs associated with voluntary conservation projects, both for conservation easements and fee-owned land.
- Alliance members: $70.00
- Non-members: $100.00
Determining Stewardship and Defense Costs for Properties
Join stewardship experts Angela Sturdevant, TNC, Jamison Hutchins, Central Indiana Land Trust and Leslie Ratley-Beach, Land Trust Alliance, as they lay out what land trusts need to know when planning for the long-term cost of managing and defending their properties.
Practice Element 6A5: Funding for Stewardship and Defense
This guidance covers Practice Element 6A5: Build and maintain dedicated or restricted funds sufficient to cover the long term costs of stewarding and defending the land trust’s land and conservation easements.
Practice 11A: Funding Conservation Easement Stewardship
This guidance covers Practice 11A: Funding Conservation Easement Stewardship.