Bellevue has reclaimed its natural systems through the coordinated design of a citywide park system and a stormwater management program.
Read more>The mountains, the desert, the river - El Paso wouldn’t be the same without them. Yet as the city grows, the special places are disappearing one by one.
Read more>Partners turn to The Conservation Fund for guidance on how to incorporate green infrastructure planning principles into land use decision making, comprehensive planning, and the design of incentive systems for development and conservation.
Read more>With planning, guidance, and the unified vision of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, public agencies and conservation groups have protected much of the undeveloped land outside urban areas between Seattle and Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascades.
Read more>In the late 1980’s, a group of representatives from the metropolitan regional government (Metro), non-profit organizations, local governments and citizens formed to collaborate on greenspace protection in the region around Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington.
Read more>The proposed conservation system, the Sky Islands Wildlands Network (SIWN), encompasses about 17.3 million acres and extends from the Mogollon Rim in east-central Arizona and west-central New Mexico south to the northern Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico.
Read more>The rapidly growing Tucson region will use the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan to manage growth while protecting valuable biological and cultural resources and providing dedicated open space. To achieve these goals, the planning process brought together divergent interest groups to work together to create a balanced and fair approach to planning and decision making.
Read more>The Taos Green Infrastructure Plan (2004) is a common-sense framework for the development of an Open Space and Recreation Master Plan for parks, recreation and natural resource protection in the Town of Taos and Taos County.
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