We foster the conservation and stewardship of natural land, providing current and future generations a link with their heritage, via the following strategies:

• Preserve, restore and protect strategic lands that contribute to the health of the regional ecosystem. Many such efforts will expand, enhance or connect existing preserved areas; others may stand alone as important anchors because their scale is large or they are unique.

• Build and support constituencies that value and engage in land stewardship by

– sustaining environmentally appropriate land uses

– limiting urban sprawl

– preserving threatened, historically rural landscapes

– including underrepresented groups in land use dialogues

– fostering a regional approach to land use planning

• Engage young people. Through focused initiatives, the foundation works
to engage young people with the natural world. Unsolicited proposals are not
accepted in this area.