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The LandCAN's blog by Amos Eno, Emily Nason and guest bloggers: short, newsworthy, and inspirational. Featuring links to innovative programs, organizations, and some of our best articles. For those who'd like to keep working lands working.

Radio Interview on the Derek Volk Show
Amos Eno, the president and founder of LandCAN had the unique opportunity to be interviewed on a local radio show here in Maine

Posted By: Emily Nason on: 04/26/2018

Thomas Daniels and The Law of Agricultural Land Preservation
Conservations easements can be complex. Thomas Daniel's new book breaks down the legal principles, federal and state requirements, and the legal issues that affect agricultural land preservation efforts.

Posted By: Emily Nason on: 04/04/2018

Conservation Easements and the Billion Dollar Loophole
The most generous charitable deduction in the federal tax code is being manipulated to make big profits

Posted By: Emily Nason on: 03/20/2018

Anurag Agrawal, Milkweed, and the Decline of Monarch Butterflies
When we think of wild animals losing their habitats, we don’t usually envision butterflies. Instead we might think of elephants, rhinos, and tigers in faraway places. But monarch butterflies are losing their homes right here in the US. One man who has made real strides in the research of monarch butterflies and their habitat is Anurag Agrawal. In 2017 he wrote the book Monarchs and Milkweed - A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
Posted By: Emily on: 03/15/2018

Re-Planting After a Fire: Sagebrush Restoration
After any kind of wildfire, big or small, it is imperative that the trees and plants are replanted within a reasonable time after a fire, insect infestation, disease or weather takes its toll.

Posted By: Emily Nason on: 03/30/2018

Energy Solution? Soil Carbon Storage
Oil, coal and natural gas will remain the world’s dominant sources of energy over the next decades, whether we like it or not. Technologies that help reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuels can reverse this trend! Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is particularly promising.

Posted By: Emily Nason on: 02/14/2018

Changing The Way We View Private Land Conservation
Though public lands are crucial for conserving some of our nation's last wild spaces, the reality is that private lands surround and connect these spaces

Posted By: Emily Nason on: 02/08/2018

Collaboration and Conservation
When it comes to conservation, there is no one person or organization that can do it all. Everyone, from students and farmer, to non-profits and government agencies, must get involved.

Posted By: Emily Nason on: 02/01/2018

Importance of Private Land Conservation and the work of Amy Johnson
Engaging with private landowners is more important than ever when it comes to conservation. 71% of land in the lower 48 states is in private ownership.

Posted By: Emily Nason on: 01/18/2018

George Smith Lauds Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund
Yesterday, George Smith posted a great article about some of the most recent grants awarded by the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/30/2017

Soil Carbon Cowboys
A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Carbon Nation and filmmaker Peter Byck to study and show to the world the impacts of adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing on farms and ranches in the U.S. and Canada.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/29/2017

Reinvigorated Leadership for Oklahoma Conservation Districts
As president of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts and board chairman of the Dewey County Conservation District, Jimmy Emmons is leading by example in an effort to improve soil health on his farm and throughout the state.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Private Land in the West: A Diamond in the Rough
Here's a copy of a speech I gave two weeks ago in Jackson Hole, WY. Thank you to David and Maureen Brown for hosting us, and to Bob and Colleen Grady, and Rob Wallace for your long time support.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/10/2017

Ahead of the Herd
Around the turn of the 20th century Ellis County, Texas was the largest cotton producing county in the United States, but through intensive restoration efforts the Price family has turned formerly worn out farmland into native grassland prairie capable of sustainably supporting 77 Ranch’s cow-calf operation and plentiful wildlife.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 11/20/2017

A Forest Management Renaissance
It is time for a new approach to on the ground forest management.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/01/2017

Teaching Our Kids to Respect Nature Including Fish
Guest blogger Jackie Edwards reflects on fish and plants, and how natural ecosystems work.

Posted By: Jackie Edwards on: 06/21/2017

Tending to the Land
For their efforts in forest stewardship, RFF Advisory Board member Bob Williams and classmate Bill Haines Jr. were profiled in the Spring 2017 issue of Rutgers Magazine.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 07/28/2017

Why You Need an Estate Plan
It’s not the most comfortable topic to discuss, but for the sake of practicality, making a plan for when you die is an incredibly important step everyone should undertake.

Posted By: Jackie Waters on: 07/28/2017

Tara Wildlife: A Family Legacy of Conservation
Before dawn on Thursday morning, I’ll be leaving to attend the fourth iteration of Tara Talks, a conservation conference held at Tara Wildlife in Eagle Lake, Mississippi.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 01/09/2018

The Most Important Things to Consider When Designing an Eco-Friendly Home Remodel
Designing an eco-friendly home can consist of many different areas, and even the smallest change can have a big effect on future needs, costs, and your home’s value.

Posted By: Paul Denikin on: 10/21/2016

Collaborative Conservation on the Siuslaw National Forest
An interview with Johnny Sundstrom, Founder and Director of the Siuslaw Institute, Deadwood, Oregon, on the process behind the Fivemile-Bell watershed restoration project on Oregon's central coast.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Three Affordable Improvements to Make Your Home More Efficient
While this blog usually focuses on the sustainability of private working lands, DIY dad Paul Denikin reminds us that the path to sustainability can begin with relatively simple projects around the home.

Posted By: Paul Denikin on: 09/08/2016

KEA, Landowners Collaborate to Heal Idaho's Fernan Lake
This past May, the Kootenai Environmental Alliance, with the help of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality’s Nonpoint Source Management Program, stood up to the plate and decided to take on the goal of making Fernan Lake healthy again.

Posted By: Cameron Cushing on: 08/31/2016

The Beauty in Gardening
Editors' Note: We're excited to share with you this comprehensive guide to gardening by Lindsy Cullen from BillyOh.com. Unfortunately, it's too comprehensive to include on this blog in its entirety so we're sharing this introduction with a link back to the many detailed chapters on BillyOh.com.

Posted By: Lindsy Cullen on: 08/30/2016

Tom Martin's Insights on Forestry in the 21st Century
I have known and respected Tom Martin, President and CEO of the American Forest Foundation, for several decades. We have the same philosophy and passion: a commitment to empowering private landowners as the leading phalanx to protect private lands across America.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/30/2016

Field Trip Fridays: Misty Acres Alpaca Farm
Last week, myself and colleagues Melissa O'Neal, and Kim LeBlanc visited Red LaLiberte of Misty Acres Alpaca Farm in Sydney, ME, one of our ambassadors for #sustainableag in Maine.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 10/12/2016

Empowering Private Landowner Conservation
On Friday, April 15th I was honored to be a panelist on the fifth installment, entitled Empowering Private Landowner Conservation, of the Species Conservation and ESA Initiative webinars hosted by the Western Governors’ Association.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/30/2016

The Making of Maple Syrup: Part II
Last week,the Land Conservation Assistance Network's Director of Development & Outreach, Melissa A. O'Neal and I went back to Bacon Farm Maple Products so Kevin Bacon could show us their sap becomes maple syrup.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Directing the Digital Estate
Directive Communication Systems is bringing the process of estate planning into the digital world.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/22/2016

Protecting the West's Critical Habitat from Invasive Species
A few of my thoughts on the second webinar in the Western Governors' Association's Species Conservation and ESA Initiative webinar series.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/09/2016

The Making of Maple Syrup: Part I
Sixth generation sugar maker Kevin Bacon showed us how to tap a maple tree on our visit to his farm last week, where we learned a lot about this sweet, sustainable natural resource.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Huge Victory for 21st Century Conservation
Congress makes permanent enhanced tax incentives for conservation easement donations.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

The Sage Grouse Initiative: A Federal Program that Works with Private Landowners
The Sage Grouse Initiative works with ranchers to preserve their working lands and the greater sage-grouse that inhabit them.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/25/2016

The Direction of Land Conservation in the 21st Century
I spent the later half of last week in Boise, Idaho, where I gave a speech as part of the Joint State Conservation Summit hosted by the Idaho Soil & Water Conservation Commission. Below is an abridged version of that speech.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Restoring Idaho's Lemhi River
Last week, I spoke with Jeff DiLuccia, a fisheries biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in the Salmon region, of which the Lemhi Valley is a part, to learn more about a project to restore a two mile segment of the Lower Lemhi River for the benefit of Chinook salmon and steelhead.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/22/2015

WAFWA One Year Later: A Major Success
In March 2014, I wrote about the development of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies' (WAFWA) Range-wide plan for conserving the lesser prairie-chicken. This week I spoke with Ross Melinchuk, chairman of WAFWA's Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative Council, to discuss the range-wide plan, now slightly more than a year after its creation.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/09/2016

Community Conservation at its Best
Before the money and the fame, people in the mountain west used to live for a love of the range. The residents of Idaho’s Lemhi Valley are here to say that some things haven’t changed.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/09/2016

The Little Land Trust that Could
The Lemhi Regional Land Trust breaks out.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

The Winds Never Set
Pika Energy leads a quest to make homes providers of their own power

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/09/2016

Serendipity at the Local Grocery
A taste of gin tells the story of sustainable agriculture in Vermont.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/24/2015

Malpai Brings Voluntary Conservation to the Borderlands
The Malpai Borderlands Group is celebrating its twentieth year of fostering voluntary conservation programs in the southwest.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/25/2016

New Poll Finds Support among Hunters for Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation
The results of a recently released poll from the National Wildlife Federation and Southwick Associates showed that there is strong support for greater sage-grouse conservation among hunters in the eleven western states the bird inhabits.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/25/2016

Lemhi Salmon Recovery: Private Landowners take the Lead
Life on the Range profiles Idaho ranchers and their efforts to restore the Lemhi Valley watershed for Chinook salmon.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/03/2015

Notes from the International Sage-Grouse Forum
Last week, I attended the International Sage-Grouse Forum in Salt Lake City, Utah. As an inveterate note taker, here are the salient points I heard and noted.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/23/2015

Gunnison Sage-Grouse: An Endangered Species?
In just two weeks, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will decide whether or not to list the Gunnison sage-grouse as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 01/09/2018

'Fire Borrowing' Policy Up in Flames
Forest Service programs devastated by a flawed budgeting policy

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 03/09/2016

Louisiana Conservation Connection Officially Unveiled
Yesterday, I was in Louisiana to give a presentation on our latest state conservation website.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Mr. Eno Goes to Washington: August Edition
Earlier this month, I traveled south for my third trip of the summer to our nation's capitol. Here's a recap of those three busy days.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/29/2014

A Rancher's Perspective on Sage Grouse Conservation
Two weeks ago, I wrote about my discussion with Terry Messmer on the work he is is doing to conserve sage grouse and sagebrush-steppe habitat with private landowners in Utah. This week, I had the opportunity to speak with one of those ranchers, Jay Tanner of Grouse Creek.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/25/2016

Talking Sage-Grouse with Terry Messmer
With the development of the sage-grouse page of our Conservation Habitat Management Portal ongoing, I found this an opportune time to speak with Terry Messmer, PhD, director of Utah State University Extension’s Community-Based Conservation Program (CBCP).

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/25/2016

The Importance of Providing Landowners with the Full Spectrum of Information and Resources on Conservation Agriculture
Last week we were excited to announce on social media that our own Breana Behrens Monday was going to speak at the 6th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture. Unfortunately, flight cancellations put an end to her trip before it ever really started. Here is the speech she would have given.

Posted By: Breana Behrens on: 01/09/2018

Mr. Eno Goes to Washington
As LandCAN President, I often travel to Washington, D.C. to talk about current items such as sage grouse and Lesser Prairie Chicken conservation. Here's a recap of the four busy days I spent there last week.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

O'Toole Family Wins 2014 Leopold Conservation Award in Wyoming
The family, of Ladder Ranch on the Wyoming-Colorado border, wins one of the most prestigious awards in private lands conservation.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Industry Commits to Conservation Leadership
Saving the lesser prairie chicken 1 (million) acres at a time.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Get to Know the RFF Advisory Board: Adam J. White
The third installment in our weekly series to introduce you, our readers, to the Resources First Foundation's Advisory Board Members.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/18/2014

Get to Know the RFF Advisory Board: Thomas Daniels
This is the second segment in our new weekly series to introduce you, our readers, to Resources First Foundation's Advisory Board Members.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/27/2014

Introducing RFF Advisory Board Member Keith Ross
The Resources First Foundation Advisory Board is just what it sounds like: It is a group of people who support what RFF is doing, and whom I can call on for advice or help. In this new segment, I will be introducing to you every week a member of Resources First Foundation's Advisory Board.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/22/2014

A Trip Through The African Wilderness
My recent travels through southern Africa reminded me of how profoundly my past experiences on this continent shaped my outlook on conservation.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/17/2014

A West Coast Perspective on Forestry
Founder and editor of Evergreen magazine, Jim Peteresen discusses regional and political differences in forest management.

Posted By: Amos P. Eno on: 02/09/2016

Insect Invasion Bring Destruction to Southern Pine Forests
The southern pine beetle, cousin of the more popular western pine beetle, is responsible for the death of millions of pine trees from Texas to New Jersey.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/13/2013

Private Lands for Endangered Species Recovery
On Saturday, I joined our Conservation Tax Center Director Breana Behrens at the inaugural Tara Talks conference in Eagle Lake, Mississippi. Here is a condensed version of the presentation I gave there.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/04/2013

Conservation Easements and Economic Incentives
This is an abridged version of the presentation I gave at the inaugural Tara Talks at Tara Wilderness in Eagle Lake, Mississippi on Saturday.
Posted By: Breana Behrens on: 11/01/2013

Federal Shutdown Leaves Landowners Stranded
Due to the strong conservation ethic of private landowners in America, conservation efforts continue across the country despite the federal government shutdown. But some, particularly South Dakota ranchers, are feeling the effects of the government freeze.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/17/2013

New Jersey Struggles with Forest Management Policy
Last month Governor Chris Christie vetoed the Healthy Forests Act and now people in the state are struggling to find consensus how to manage New Jersey's state forests.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/09/2016

Preserving Tax Deductions for Conservation Easements in Perpetuity
Conservation easements perpetually preserve land, the Conservation Easement Incentive Act of 2013 aims to do the same for the federal tax incentives that encourage their creation.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/15/2013

The Virginia Outdoors Foundation: A leader in open space land easements
Founded in 1966, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation has conserved around 3,500 open space easements on over 675,000, much of that occurring under the tenure of Executive Director Bob Lee.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/19/2013

Taking High Plains Conservation to Scale with Private Landowners: by not listing the Lesser Prairie Chicken
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to list the Lesser Prairie Chicken a threatened species was the right move.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Conservation in Virginia's Piedmont
The Piedmont Environmental Council works to preserve the land of the Piedmont region and strengthen the communities that live on it.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/02/2013

House Fails to Pass Farm Bill
Those of us hoping for a much needed update to the farm bill were once again disappointed by out legislators' failure to produce any legislation.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/11/2013

Innovative Farming in an Urban Metroplex
When most people think of farming, they conjure up pictures of expansive fields in rural areas, often surrounded by more fields, with a few houses, barns and grain silos scattered amongst them along two lane roads. That is not the case in Orange County, California, where the Kawamura family has been farming since 1958.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/03/2013

Wildfires: It's that Time of the Season, Part II
Preventative medicine for our forests.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/05/2013

Wildfires: It's that Time of the Season, Part I
The Western U.S. is experiencing it's first wildfires of the year and politicians have their fire extinguishers ready. Unfortunately, current policies to combat wildfires are ineffective.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/16/2014

Getting Upstream States to Help Fix Downstream Problems
A condensed version of my speech at the America’s Energy Coast Leadership Forum on May 2nd in Baton Rouge, LA.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 05/10/2013

Reforesting the Mississippi Alluvial Valley with GreenTrees
Founded in 2003 by C2I, LLC, GreenTrees is a privately managed forest restoration and carbon sequestration company for private landowners, and one of the largest and most successful reforestation projects in the country. GreenTrees focuses their efforts in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV), where there was once 50 million acres of bottomland hardwoods, of which only 4 million remain today.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/10/2015

We Need a Forest Policy Fix; it is Long Overdue – Part III
How to effectively market stewardship practices to private forest owners.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/30/2013

We Need a Forest Policy Fix; it is Long Overdue – Part II
Ex-urban explosion fractures Forests.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/29/2013

We Need a Forest Policy Fix; it is Long Overdue - Part I
Resources First Foundation works hard to partner with the United States Forest Service to save America's working forests.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 05/07/2013

Cat Fight at Audubon Corral
The National Audubon Society suspended, but has since reinstated, Ted Williams as writer of the independent Incite column for Audubon magazine in response to the controversial article he wrote on feral-cats as a Guest writer for the Orlando Sentinel.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/23/2013

Harper Armstrong Named Louisiana Farmer of the Year
Armstrong, a Morehouse Parish farmer for over forty years, was chosen from a group of three finalists as Louisiana Farmer of the year in 2013.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/29/2013

Empowering Private Landowners to Utilize Conservation
Resources First Foundation President & Founder, Amos Eno, speaks to the Louisiana Landowners Association on March 15, 2013.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 05/10/2016

The Harris Farm and Revision Energy Collaborate to Build a Model of Sustainable Dairy Farming
The Harris' have used sustainable agricultural practices for generations, and thanks to Revision Energy's solar hot water system, they practice sustainable energy use as well.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/06/2013

A Legacy of Sustainable Farming in Southern New Jersey
The Haines family has been preserving its environment and producing cranberries in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey for more than 100 years.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/25/2013

Ag Labor and Immigration - A Case in Point
As the 113th Congress gets underway, it appears that both political parties are serious about tackling comprehensie immigration reform in 2013, for the first time in many years. A crucial piece of that package must address farm labor issues, a topic that has risen to the top of the policy agenda for AGree and many other groups. Wyoming rancher Pat O'Toole, an AGree Advisory Committee member, has strong view on this subject.

Posted By: Pat O'Toole on: 02/09/2016

Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust Surpasses 400,000 Acres Conserved
As of December 31, 2012 CCALT and its partners have conserved over 400,000 acres of private working lands in Colorado. Furthermore, in October the organization was honored as the state's outstanding nonprofit with the Julie and Spencer Penrose Award by the El Pomar Foundation.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/09/2018

Condzella Hops Unites L.I. Farmers and Local Breweries
Condzella Hops need your help in reviving hop farms on Long Island! Support local farms and breweries.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/12/2013

Estate Planning for the Private Landowner After the Fiscal Cliff
Private landowners should be aware of how the fiscal cliff deal will impact their estate planning in order to ensure they can keep their working lands working!
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/14/2013

The Enhanced Tax Incentive for Conservation Easements is Renewed!
President Obama has signed into law the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012,” or the much talked about fiscal-cliff deal. The Act includes a provision that extends the special rule for contributions of capital gain real property made for conservation purposes.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/04/2013

Farm Bill Extension Overlooks the Family Farmer and Conservation
The Farm Bill Extension, passed by Congress in fiscal cliff legislation, keeps the country from falling off the dairy cliff, but may not be helpful to family farmers and conservation efforts.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/04/2013

Amos Eno Speech: A Tuning Fork for Conservation
Resources First Foundation President Amos Eno told a Simsbury Land Trust audience that conservation policy is overdue for realignment

Posted By: Simsbury Land Trust on: 02/09/2016

The Answer to the Landowner Age Cliff – Conservation Action!
Making sure our forests, farms and ranches survive their aging owners demands innovative, entrepreneurial action, not empty promises.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/04/2013

The Age Cliff Facing Private Landowners
One more threat to working lands – the average age of farmers, ranchers and forest owners continues to climb, with only words not action to stem the tide.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/06/2013

Wildfires Spread because Congress & Enviros ‘Can’t See the Forest for the Trees’
Veteran silviculturist urges Congress to assist the U.S. Forest Service in taking a proactive approach in fighting wildfires with common-sense, cost-saving preventive medicine.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/27/2012

Will Forest Service Copy Rancher’s Zero-Cost Forest Management Plan?
California rancher & forest owner Peter Stent is working hard to help USDA’s Forest Service fight fire (and ultra-enviros) with common-sense forest management.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/28/2012

Conservation Could Save Sage Grouse & Ranchers from Endangered Species Listing
Fire suppression helped trigger a juniper invasion across the West. Now wildfires and USDA’s Sage Grouse Initiative offer win-win-win solutions.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/14/2014

Conservation Easements Gaining Ground in Montana
How thousands of small-acreage conservation easements add up to landscape-scale environmental benefits
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/24/2012

For a Maine Family Business – The Jobs Come Next
Pingree forests move from pulpwood to pellets & parquet
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/30/2012

For a Maine Family Business – ‘The Forest Comes First’
The Pingree family uses a conservation easement to guarantee sustainability
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/30/2012

How Estate Taxes and Conservation Easements are Linked
The implications of pending federal budget and tax decisions in Congress
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/24/2012

Deductions on Conservation Easements
History and Insights from a Leading Authority
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/23/2012

Drakes Bay Oyster Company Struggles on against Park Service
Guest blog from David Mitchell, of "Sparsely, Sage and Timely" in west Marin, California
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/07/2012

Have Your Land and Drill it Too
The Texas Agricultural Land Trust works with landowners to help plan for long-term conservation along with development of oil and mineral rights
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/23/2012

Generating Revenue from Biodiversity
A farmer grapples with how to make conservation pay for itself
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/02/2012

A Conservation Work Summary from The Farm at Sunnyside
Counting Salamanders and Photographing Mammals
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/13/2012

Landscape Stewardship - Conserving Forests of the Northeast
Stewardship envisioned by “standing on an individual property looking out, instead of standing on the boundary looking in.”
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/19/2012

Working Forests Need a Makeover
Forests Managed for Timber, Wildlife, and other Values Need Marketing that Goes Beyond Smokey Bear and Grizzly Bears
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/06/2012

Private Lands Field Day in Arkansas
Innovative ag operations using WHIP and EQIP for wildlife and water quality
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 05/25/2012

The New and Improved CREP for the Illinois River in Arkansas
How the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in northwest Arkansas can beat the price of a cow/calf operation . . .
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 05/03/2012

Renewable Energy: Preparing Us for the Era of Conservation
Bob Belick of Sustainable Strategies defines conservation far more broadly than you might think
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/15/2012

REAP - the Perfect Program for Rural Renewables
The Renewable Energy for America Program would work better if it were easier to use and more widely available.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/29/2012

Beyond the Grid: Distributed Generation using Renewables
Helping Rural Residents to Make Alternative Energy Sources a Reality
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/05/2012

Easements Help People Reconnect Parcels to the Family Farm
The Tecumseh Land Trust in Ohio relies on PLN to help educate landowners about conservation easements
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/27/2012

Tecumseh Land Trust’s Proud “Tradition” of Saving Farmland
Effective Use of the NRCS Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/27/2012

New Training Opportunities Signal Potential New Job Opportunities at NRCS
Free training opportunities around the country for new CRP initiatives
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/13/2012

CRP Readiness Initiative
Free nationwide trainings to support outsourcing of Conservation Reserve Program tech support
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/08/2012

More Working Forest Easements
Northeastern companies are setting the pace for practicing responsible long-term forestry, guaranteed for generations to come
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/02/2012

Roseburg - a Conservation Easement with Timber Rights
Excerpts from a recent speech to the Allegheny Society of American Foresters
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/02/2012

Social Media for More Online Outreach
FB, "friend," Tw, and "tweets" join RFF, PLN, and CCC
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/27/2012

Florida Land Steward - Another Web-based Model for Landowner Outreach
A new partnership in Florida has embraced the PLN model for landowner outreach.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/07/2012

Public Relations for Working Forests
Bob Williams, a forester with a mission, filmed "A Working Forest, Its Future with Fire, People & Wildlife" to begin a conversation . . .
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/02/2012

Avoiding Extinction by Adapting, Rancher Style
David Bamberger advocates living on the land as the way to retain knowledge of natural forces and ecology.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/24/2012

Selah, the Texas Ranch that Brought Water from Stone
How David Bamberger's land ethic was born and transformed a "beat up" piece of Texas ground.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/24/2012

Turning the Texas Drought into Plenty
How One Texas Rancher Helped to Feed People While Saving his Ranch from the Drought.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/12/2017

Western Forest Wildfire Lessons from NASA's Earth Observatory
Fire and the Future of Yellowstone 1989 to 2011
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/05/2012

Wood for Haiti Embodies the Spirit of Christmas
Great Idea, Great Need, Great Story, Great Time to Give
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/05/2012

Beetle-killed Forest: Why Harvesting May be the Best Option
How Wood for Haiti proposes to improve western forests while aiding Haiti.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/26/2011

What if We Could Rebuild Haiti?
The serendipitous story of how Wood for Haiti was created
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

Wood for Haiti
How beetle-killed wood from Western forests may be the key to rebuilding Haiti.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

A National Voice for Private Landowners
A Vision for How Landowners Can Take Greater Responsibility to Make a Difference
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/06/2011

Landowners and Government: The Secret to a Successful Relationship
The Blackfoot Challenge in Montana brings together everyone under the "80-20 rule."
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/30/2011

Thankful for “every cog and wheel” . . .
Can you recognize which Americans throughout our nation’s history have been thankful for these many forms of America’s bounty?
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/23/2011

Partners for Conservation
Looking for a few good private landowners to make important things happen across the country.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/17/2011

Locally Grown: Creating Rural Jobs with America's Public Lands
Testimony before Congress by Jim Stone of Rolling Stone Ranch in Montana
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/10/2011

Stepwise to a Grand Vision in Idaho
The many ways that ranchers in Idaho are contributing to the conservation of a great American landscape.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

Thin Economics and High Quality Fat
How grass fed meat can support health while sustaining western ecosystems
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

Pronghorn: Spirit of the Grasslands
Using pronghorn antelope as a charismatic species to engage communities in maintaining and reconnecting rangelands
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

Co-existence with Wolves Through Research
How using nonlethal methods of wolf control has decreased sheep predation by more than 90%
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

Ranching Side-by-Side with Wolves
An Ecological Philosophy of Ranching
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

The Heroes are the Herders
The duty of all staff at Lava Lakes Ranch is to leave the landscape in better condition than they found it.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

Getting Grazing Right
Using High Tech Tools to Manage the Flock and Follow the Grazing Prescription
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

Cowboys, Heroes and Family Roots
How a Childhood Working with Cattle Led an Investment Banker Back to a Working Ranch
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

Lamb, Lava Lake, and a Landscape
Making Working Wildlands Work for Conservation
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/23/2012

The Landowner's Cash Contingency
Planning for your financial future - whether you intend to keep your property or not.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/30/2011

Land Rich, Cash Poor
Insights on how to value land wealth over the long term
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/28/2011

Family Wealth Management for Landowners
Landowners have special needs for real property financial advice
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/23/2013

A Bottom-Up Approach with Bottom-Line Benefits
How are we doing?
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/16/2011

Save the Land By Saving the Rancher
What this Writer on Range thinks . . .
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/09/2011

Living with Weapons Near the Bed in Arizona
Drug trafficking and illegal border crossings from the perspective of a rancher
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/02/2011

Turnabout is Fair Play for a Rancher Who’s Fed Up
Lawsuits . . . they're not just for activists anymore
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/31/2011

Ranching for an Endangered Species
Endangered Leopard Frogs Finding a Home in the “Stock Pond”
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/25/2011

When an Endangered Species Isn’t
Tales of Sonora Chub, Lesser Long-nosed Bats, and the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/09/2016

Wildlife and Cattle Management on a Working Ranch
The proper type of grazing is also one of the best means of managing for wildlife
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/25/2011

Rest Rotation Grazing
50,000 Acres of Ecological Success on the Chilton Ranch in Arizona
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/25/2011

The Amazing Chilton Ranch in Southern Arizona
Ground Zero of Touchstone Issues in the American West
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/25/2011

Married Into It - a New Book of Poetry from the American West
DFFHFCC9UED2 Two poems that illustrate the relationship between ranchers and their land and animals, from Patricia Frolander, a lauded and award-winning American poet.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/06/2011

How to Set Goals for Your Recreational Property
You won’t be growing longleaf pine in Massachusetts, but within ecological reason, the best way to be a steward of your property is to clarify your desires
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/28/2011

How to Hire a Land Management Consultant
Tips from Rans Thomas, of Thomas Resources Wildlife and Land Enhancement, on how to get the most bang for your buck.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/26/2011

A Great Way to Purchase or Sell Recreational Property
In today’s market, there are many properties and almost as many “experts,” creating a “buyer beware” situation
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/23/2011

Land Enhancement for Wildlife with Hunting Product Discounts
Rans Thomas has a new consulting business, Thomas Resources Wildlife and Land Enhancement, which can provide products and equipment at below retail prices.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/20/2011

Better Land, Big Bucks, Quail and More: the Rans Thomas Promise
Recreational property management with the landowner in mind is what the recently launched Thomas Resources Wildlife and Land Enhancement is all about.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/29/2012

Norfolk Southern Corporation, an Engine for Private Reforestation
Railway company will restore 10,000 acres of lower Mississippi Valley forest, benefiting landowners, ecosystems, and their bottom line
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/28/2011

The Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
Building Community and Quality of Life through Habitat Protection and Restoration
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/05/2011

Farm Equipment, Old and New
One Example of How Farmers Must Adjust, Recalibrate, and Innovate Their Operations to Stay in Business
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/01/2011

Chicken Farm Turns Poultry Litter to Power
M. Marsh Farms in South Carolina will be among the first in the country to pursue energy independence by recycling animal waste into renewable energy

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/05/2015

Partners for Fish and Wildlife in Oregon
How partnerships help landowners and declining wildlife species at the same time.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 05/19/2011

Fisheries and Habitat Conservation at the Top
The Views of Bryan Arroyo, Former Farmer and Shepherd, Career Biologist and Lifelong Conservationist
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 05/10/2011

In Pennsylvania, Partnership is Creating a Win Win Win Win
How to make economic downturn and urban environmental problems turn into dynamic locally based action for change.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 05/03/2011

State Conservation Centers Developed by Resources First Foundation
One-Stop Shop Sites for Landowners in Individual States: the Value Added
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/29/2011

Private Land and Public Power: Some Questions You Might Ask
An exploration of the importance of private lands and the implications of declining public funds and low public understanding.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/29/2011

Rivers of Life, Ribbons of Green
Whether in the West or the East, riparian habitat is where it’s at for wildlife, water conservation, flood control, and beauty.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/09/2012

Private Lands, the New Conservation Frontier
Private landowners on America’s working land - farm, ranch, or forest - are changing. They have new needs and we need a new approach to help them.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/05/2011

Online Outreach to Private Landowners and Resource Managers
Internet training is here and promises only to grow. The Texas Agrilife Extension Service sets an excellent example.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/31/2011

Restoring an Ecosystem, the Case for Longleaf Pine
The Rangewide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine, created by a public-private partnership, aims to restore long leaf pine on a landscape scale.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/24/2011

The Benefits of Longleaf Pine Restoration to Landowners
Direct from the National Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year: the advantages and aesthetics of long leaf pine
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/15/2011

Longleaf, Hope for Landowners Who Grow Pine in the South
Restoration of longleaf pine ecosystems is the “secret ingredient” for success in managing wildlife, wildfire, habitat, and plants in the Deep South
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/15/2011

Of Native Grasses, Wildflowers, and Heart-breaking Beauty
The Art and Science of Meadow Restoration on an Organic Farm
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/02/2011

Growing Organic Food and Biodiversity at Sunnyside Farm
Nick Lapham’s Long-term Approach to Agriculture, Restoration and Life in Rappahannock County, Virginia
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 03/02/2011

Conservation Easements: the Good, the Bad and the Paperwork
A true story of what went on behind the scenes over 8 years to execute easements on the Salisbury-O’Toole Ladder Ranch in Colorado and Wyoming
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/29/2012

Saving the U.S. from Itself: Toward a Rational Energy Policy
Why does the pace of change in energy and transport seem to be zero when we know technology is racing ahead . . . all across our inventive land? -Ken Berlin
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/25/2011

Prairie Plains Resource Institute’s Ranch Management in Nebraska
Envisioning a program to conserve high plains shortgrass prairie, generate ranch income, and educate the public about the Great Plains
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/10/2011

Orri Vigfusson Shares Successful Conservation Partnership Secrets
The founder of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund explains how the rights of netsmen are like the rights of small landowners
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 02/03/2011

North Atlantic Salmon Fund - Fair Compensation for Conservation
Orri Vigfusson, the world’s number one salmon conservationist, explains his idea of a “fair deal,” paying netsmen and long-liners for their fishing rights
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/26/2011

Farmers, Foresters, Ranchers and Wall Street
Michael Van Patten’s Mission Markets Earth is a first-of-its-kind trading platform designed to help everyone, including private landowners, trade ecosystem credits
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/21/2011

Forest Management, Education and Baseball at Georgia’s Big K Farm
Two Atlanta Braves Baseball Stars Pitch Forest Stewardship to Fellow Landowners, Teachers, Kids, and Legislators

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/27/2015

Conservation Easement Tax Deduction Extension
An increased tax deduction for conservation not only increases protected land, but increases justice in society.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/10/2011

Best Working Lands Quotes of 2010
PLN’s “Keep Working Lands Working” blog takes a look back at some of the most thought provoking statements and events of 2010
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/04/2011

What Would Christmas be Without a Live Tree?
It’s a family affair at the North Parish Christmas Tree Farm in central Maine.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/07/2011

Value-Added Forestry: Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Forester
In Central Minnesota, Greg Nolan seeks to spread “forestry with a small f” by incubating mom-and-pop businesses on a landscape scale.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/16/2010

Pacific NW Coached Stewardship Planning: Longterm Investments
In Oregon and Washington, coached Forest Stewardship Planning is an investment, not only in forests, but in the people who care for the land.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/08/2010

A Ranch, a Watershed, and Cattle in the 21st Century American West
Perspectives of a beginner in the western ranching business: Nikos Monoyios says ranches are important because ranchers provide land & water stewardship.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/01/2010

Forest Stewardship Program, Reinventing Private Forest Management
USFS State and Private Forestry is working smarter to meet demand and thinking strategically to conserve landscapes.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/23/2010

December Summit in NV on Renewable Energy to Save Sagebrush
Exciting new partnership using renewable energy to restore sagebrush has taken hold among rangeland managers, ranchers, and the biofuels industry in Nevada.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 12/01/2010

The Facebook Generation Tunes In to Conservation, Land Management
Locust Hill Farm in Fauquier County, Virginia is a Study in Youthful Stewardship and Wired Technology
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/29/2012

Magalen Bryant, Extraordinary Supporter of Conservation and the Environment
Magalen Bryant is an effective leader, committed conservationist, and genuine philanthropist. But she’d rather you just call her Maggie.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/08/2010

The O’Toole Ladder Ranch
A sixth-generation ranch in Wyoming and Colorado meets the 21st century with innovation and family unity.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/01/2016

Beyond Rocks and Ice, More from Mike Scott
The first Great Depression and Dust Bowl resulted in great strides for conservation and stewardship. What about this time?
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/22/2010

Mike Scott, Father of GAP Analysis
“The time to save species is when they are still common.”
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/22/2010

The Certificate in Land Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania
Tom Daniels has designed the country’s only certificate program for land preservation, in operation for the past three years.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/05/2010

Conservation Easement Aggregation Projects in New England
Keith Ross is once again leading an innovative initiative to conserve large contiguous blocks of managed forests
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/11/2012

Landscape Scale Conservation in the North Woods
Ten years ago a conservation easement on three-quarters of a million acres of land was unheard of. The Pingree Partnership changed all that.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/24/2010

California Rangeland Trust: A Booming Business, Where’s the Cash?
CRT and the Rangeland Coalition have broken the decades-long impasse between ranchers, conservationists, and “big government.” Now they just need cash.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/15/2010

California Land Trusts: Small is Beautiful
The Land Trust movement - and the future heritage of our country - is sustained by committed individuals and families with a long-term vision of the future.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/10/2015

Are Southern Forests Running Out of Time?
The Forest Service and Gary Myers are Worried About the Future of the World’s Most Diverse Temperate Forests
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/01/2010

Private Lands in the #11 State for Biodiversity and Extinctions
The state that spawned the Sagebrush Rebellion is quietly fomenting a new revolution: collaboration in the name of conserving wildlife and water.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/04/2016

Might Green Energy Replace Development as #1 Threat to Habitat?
Connectivity, argues Ed Hastey, is the answer to a lot of our conservation problems on both public and private lands - but do energy companies realize that?
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 10/25/2010

Eliminating the “White Space” from Conservation Planning
A decades-long state director for the Bureau of Land Management makes a case for private lands as critical conservation corridors.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/10/2010

Southern Ecosystems and Symbiotic Relationships
Our new Mississippi State Conservation Center highlights the Magnolia state’s wildlife, forests, and agriculture.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/06/2010

Plan for Succession, not Just Bequeathing, of Your Private Land
Creating a succession plan is not the same as estate planning; think of it as designing your family legacy.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/27/2010

Big News from Texas for Landowners and Little Birds
Private Landowner demand for services from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department grows while federal support faces cutbacks
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/21/2010

A Land Trust of Landowners for Landowners
The Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust: making best use of a tax credit and lottery funds.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/21/2012

Challenges at The Connecticut Forest and Park Association
Connecticut's Oldest Land Trust Faces America’s Latest Problems: Budget Woes and Property Turnover
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/07/2010

Malpai Borderlands Group, Ranches of SE Arizona Face a New Threat
This post is a continuation from last week’s, about the Malpai Borderlands Group, or MBG, a group of ranchers working to protect their land and ranching heritage.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/14/2010

Malpai Borderlands Group - an Early Inspiration for PLN
Ranchers in southeast Arizona at the Mexican Border have learned - sometimes the hard way - that they are “attached to the rest of the world.”
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/28/2010

People and Animals Put the Work, and Happiness, into Working Land
A new program in Wyoming links kids to ranching. This is the kind of innovative thinking that could spread like wildfire.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 08/15/2011

Big Sky and Tax Deductions: Motivators that Drive the Private Landowner Network
Wide open range land, narrow profit margins, big sky, high taxes, tall southern pines, growing debt: factors driving the Private Landowner Network or PLN.

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/07/2017

3 reasons to Shift From a Public to Private Land Conservation Investment Portfolio
Take a look at my latest presentation on why the conservation community, both public and private, needs to consider a reorientation of their land conservation focus from public land acquisition to private land conservation initiatives.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 04/02/2010

Western Ranching Coalition: Ranchbook
This the transcript of the speech I gave at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Public Lands Council meeting on February 26, 2009

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/07/2017

People, particularly forestry folks
I have been trying to ascertain for months whether the conservation easement deductions provided in the 2008 Farmbill apply to forest landowners.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 09/19/2008

PRIVATE LANDS IN THE WEST
A review of the current ranch-land conservation-scape
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/30/2008

Conservation Tax Incentive Extension

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/04/2010

Federal Conservation Programs at work
I just read that the USDA's nationwide Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) topped the 1 million acre mark last week with the addition of a 60 acre tract in Minnesota.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 01/23/2008

Private Conservation boasts record progress
More than 11,000 acres were protected in Massachusetts in 2007 through conserrvation easements
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/21/2010

Tax Benefits Result in More Acres Conserved
Now that the 2006 Pension Bill provisions are due to expire in just over a month it is becoming more and more imperative to persuade the senate and house. it was a good idea by W

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/07/2017

Maine State Conservation Center
RFF just posted its first state conservation website
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/29/2010

New Senate tax incentives for land owners

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 06/22/2010

Why I've been running
I have worked in conservation for over 35 years, and my career path, which might be more appropriately dubbed the “careening” path of a total maverick

Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 11/30/2017

Running Into The Wind Post #1
My name is Amos S. Eno and I am President of the Resources First Foundation (hereafter RFF), which I established in 2000.
Posted By: Amos S. Eno on: 07/25/2013

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Amos S. Eno is the president of the Land Conservation Assistance Network and project director of the Land Conservation Assistance Network. This blog will help you understand why we do what we do and inform you of the current happenings in our focus area.

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Amos S. Eno has worked in conservation for over 38 years on international, national and state levels. He began his career early in the 70’s working for Nat Reed in the Office of the Secretary of Interior. Subsequently he worked in the Office of Endangered Species, USFWS, and as head of National Audubon Society’s wildlife office in Washington, DC. He developed the programs of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation from inception and served as Executive Director for 11 years. While with the New England Forestry Foundation he led the team completing the 2 largest forestry conservation easements in the U.S. totaling 1.1 million acres. He has travelled around the world, and spent three years in Africa which provided seminal instruction on the importance of private lands as the key to 21st century conservation strategies.