Land Conservation

Private lands conservation is an innovative tactic that leverages the increasing interest of the private sector to take part in conservation. Silver Beech works with landowners, communities, cooperatives and businesses to establish local groups that can protect land. Some of the main tools used to achieve these goals include land trusts, conservation easements, private reserves and incentives.

Conservation easements are one of the most powerful, effective tools available for the permanent conservation of private lands in the United States.

SB will identify, conserve and manage climate-resilient lands, which are most likely to persist and thrive in a changing climate to protect forests and grasslands that pull carbon from the air and to conserve lands that provide people with buffers from natural disasters.