But the plan got a boost last October when it was nominated for addition to a statewide list of land conservation projects.
Nestlé Waters, a unit of Nestlé that sells Perrier, Poland Spring and other spring waters, has already reduced package weight and instituted energy efficiencies and land conservation projects, said Kim E. Jeffery, its chief executive.
Meanwhile, groups such as the nomadic Masai and the forest-dwelling Batwa have lost much of their traditional land to conservation projects in Kenya and central Africa.
Our work entails managing the grant applications and funding for the land conservation and park creation projects in California that other teams are currently working on.
I worked for a year for The Nature Conservancy assisting in the development of projects for land conservation in Bolivia and Peru.
"In New England, almost every town has a land conservation organization and do their projects one at a time," Ross said in an interview.
She now works for the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), a land trust in Palo Alto, CA, where she is a Conservation Project Manager managing both the conservation easement and land volunteer programs.
Students are required to undertake a clinical project with a local land conservation organization.
The company has also agreed to pay $5.3 million in federal penalties and $14 million for various states' environmental projects like energy and land conservation.
Past Keystone Cooperator projects have included permanent land conservation, initiating a forest landowner cooperative, promoting management on municipal and conservation lands, writing newspaper articles, hosting educational events, and improving their own properties for wildlife, recreation, and timber.
She drove the eastern Samburu out of their best grazing lands to establish what she called a "conservation project" (in reality an attempt to rehabilitate her pet leopard).
