Trust for Public Land

Working with federal, state, county and municipal governments, and business, civic, and neighborhood organizations, TPL has five initiatives: * Parks for People: Working in cities and suburbs across America to ensure that everyone - in particular, every child - enjoys close-to-home access to a park, playground, or natural area. * Working Lands: Protecting the farms, ranches, and forests that support land-based livelihoods and rural ways of life. * Natural Lands: Conserving wilderness, wildlife habitat, and places of natural beauty for our children's children to explore. * Heritage Lands: Safeguarding places of historical and cultural importance that keep us in touch with the past and who we are as a people. * Land & Water: Preserving land to ensure clean drinking water and to protect the natural beauty of our coasts and waterways. TPL offers: * Conservation Vision: TPL helps agencies and communities define conservation priorities, identify lands to be protected, and plan networks of conserved land that meet public need. * Conservation Finance: TPL helps agencies and communities identify and raise funds for conservation from federal, state, local, and philanthropic sources. * Conservation Transactions: TPL helps structure, negotiate, and complete land transactions that create parks, playgrounds, and protected natural areas. * Research & Education: TPL acquires and shares knowledge of conservation issues and techniques to improve the practice of conservation and promote its public benefits.