Southeast Region

This page provides a list of green infrastructure related projects in the Southeast Region. Click on the links below to learn more about each of these projects. If you are familiar with a project in this region that is not listed here, please suggest a profile, including a website or contact person in the body of the e-mail message.

Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, NC

The Conservation Fund developed the Albemarle-Pamlico Bioregional Greenway Plan as a proposed network of conservation corridors linking parks, wildlife refuges, education centers, and recreation areas in the 30,000 square-mile region.   Read more>

Chattooga Watershed (NC, SC, and GA)

With its partners, the Fund developed the Chattooga Watershed Conservation Plan as a common sense approach to preserving, restoring, and maintaining the native forest ecosystem in the 179,000-acre watershed, an area encompassing portions of three states and three National Forests.   Read more>

Florida

The goal of the Florida Statewide Greenways System Planning Project was to delineate a physical plan for a statewide greenways system, combining the results of GIS modeling and public input while following guidelines contained in the Florida Greenways Commission's December 1994 Report to the Governor.  Read more>

Kinston-Lenoir County, NC

In 2001 The Conservation Fund, in partnership with the University of North Carolina's Department of City and Regional Planning, the City of Kinston, and the County of Lenoir, developed a plan entitled Kinston-Lenoir County Green Infrastructure Plan for the Neuse River Floodplain. In 2002, The Conservation Fund once again collaborated with the University of North Carolina's Department of City and Regional Planning, the City of Kinston, and the County of Lenoir to create a plan entitled Linking Natural and Historic Assets: Green Infrastructure As Economic Development in Lenoir County, NC.   Read more>

Loxahatchee, FL

In an effort to create consensus-based solutions to regional environmental challenges, The Conservation Fund, 1000 Friends of Florida, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation completed the Loxahatchee Greenways Project, establishing a green infrastructure network that protects the resource base, supports the community and sustains the economy.   Read more>

Orlando, FL

The Parramore Greenprint Plan blends together two essential elements for the revitalization of the Parramore neighborhood in Orlando.  Read more>

Southeast Region

The Southeastern Ecological Framework Project is a GIS-based analysis to identify ecologically significant areas and connectivity in the southeast region of the US.   Read more>

Triangle Region, NC

Triangle GreenPrint is a project to facilitate development of a regional vision for open space in the Triangle. It will provide information and tools to help land management organizations, citizens, and their elected representatives identify and protect a regional network of green space.   Read more>
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North Carolina Conservation Based Affordable Housing

 

The Green Infrastructure Community of Practice is a collaborative network of organizations and agencies that are actively involved in the strategic green infrastructure approach to conservation and environmental protection or restoration. Learn more>

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