Forest Park Conservancy’s mission to protect Forest Park does not stop at the park’s boundary lines. As part of its 20-year landscape restoration effort, the Greater Forest Park Conservation Initiative (GFPCI), FPC, and its partners are looking for collaborative ways to protect the surrounding 10,000 acres that are part of this larger landscape.
One of the identified strategies to achieve these goals is conservation easements and fee title acquisition. Traditionally, the management of conservation easements and the stewardship of conservation lands is done by conservation-minded organizations called “land trusts.”
This past year, FPC developed a long-range business plan to take on additional conservation easements and help protect critical habitat that plays a vital role in connecting Forest Park to the Oregon Coast Range.
In Oregon, these land trusts and organizations like FPC that have programs that play a similar role are organized under the Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts (COLT). The Forest Park Conservancy has been a proud member of the Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts since 2018.
Forest Park can help: We can help curb climate change by giving our natural world the support it needs to fight back. Here’s more:
Climate guide released: Download your copy of COLT’s new guide—Conservation is Climate Action—with six ways caring for the land is part of the climate solution.
Watch their new climate video to learn more about how nature is part of the climate solution.
To read more about the Forest Park Conservancy’s partnership with the Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts, click here.