Sentences with phrase «for public lands»

And we're working hard to make sure the nation's first - ever solar program for public lands is put into place with the right incentives as well as the right protections.

The plan provides inadequate protection for our public lands.

«Instead they are just creating chaos for our public lands.»

«Because of these proposed backward - looking changes and new development plans for public lands in the region, the grouse is once again at risk of extinction and in need of stronger protection,» said Steve Holmer, American Bird Conservancy's Vice President of Policy.

He has also received recognitions from the Association of Partners for Public Lands for the Parks Conservancy annual report and the Lands End Lookout Visitor Center and from Travel & Leisure Magazine, in honor of the Golden Gate Bridge's 75th Anniversary.

Association of Partners for Public Lands Award, Commemorative Program / Project, Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary, 2013

Association of Partners for Public Lands, Winner, Commemorative Program or Project, for Crissy Field 10th Anniversary Project, 2012

He is also a former member and past President of the Board of the Association of Partners for Public Lands.

Association of Partners for Public Lands Partnership Program / Project, Honorable Mention for Food for the Parks Initiative, 2012

Association of Partners for Public Lands Partnership Program / Project, Honorable Mention for Turning the Tide conference, 2010

Association of Partners for Public Lands Award, Partnership Program / Project, Lands End Lookout Visitor Center, 2013

Presidio Seed and Plant Lab: Association of Partners for Public Lands Excellence Award and Partnership Program / Project Award, 2011

Nicholette is a founding member of the Association of Partners for Public Lands Training Corps, for which she develops, coordinates, and conducts industry trainings in customer service, public - private partnerships, exceptional business practices, and employee management and recognition.

No permission was needed for public lands.

«It's an unprecedented engagement that happened with private landowners and with state agencies to make sure that bird was not listed,» says Land Tawney, president of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a Montana - based group that advocates for public lands access and wildlife protections.

Public pressure against companies connected to the gun industry following last month's school shooting in Florida has hit an unlikely target: REI, the outdoors co-op better known for its public lands advocacy, liberal return policy and annual dividend for customers.

Imagine being able to learn to ride a bike for almost three miles without having to watch for vehicular traffic,» Jamie R. Simone, program director, Urban Parks Program at the Trust for Public Land in Chicago.

The city of Chicago, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago Park District and The Trust for Public Land have joined forced to convert abandoned railroad space along the once bustling Bloomingdale Line into much - needed community green space for residents and visitors.

But while neighborhood groups sometimes have helped raise money for such amenities as playgrounds and field houses, perhaps the district's most valuable alliance has been with the non-profit Trust for Public Land, a national group that helps local governments acquire land for parks and open space.

Officials with the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco - based, non-profit conservation group, announced they have bought a half - acre lot in the 2700 block of West Fullerton Avenue, across the street from Haas Park.

The City of Chicago and the Trust for Public Land have acquired key properties for three new parks and trail access ramps along the Canadian Pacific railroad line at Bloomingdale Avenue.

This joint venture would be one of several recent instances of Orland Park considering private vendors for public land.

Then late last year, Trust for Public Land, a national non-profit conservation organization, bought a vacant building west of the park and held it for the Park District.

The Heroes program, created by Cox Enterprises and The Trust for Public Land, honors volunteers who create, preserve, or enhance the shared outdoor places in our communities.

The park was funded by a partnership between the city and the land conservation nonprofit The Trust for Public Land, Bloomberg said.

A study by The Trust For Public Land shows that 99 percent of New York City residents are within an 10 minute walk of a park — a much higher number than the national average of 54 percent.

The Trust for Public Land is honored to have collaborated with Governor Cuomo and State Parks Commissioner Rose Harvey to further ensure these healthy, livable communities remain vibrant through the connection to the outdoors.»

Carter Strickland, New York State Director of The Trust for Public Land, said, «The natural beauty on the North Fork of Long Island is something to behold and providing greater access at Hallock State Park Preserve is allowing our communities to better connect with what makes this part of New York State so magnificent and unique.

The Natural Heritage Trust provided $ 2 million from the proceeds of a donation by the Trust for Public Land, which helped orchestrate the purchase of 525 acres from KeySpan Energy to create the park while returning 300 adjacent acres to active agricultural production.

Ottaway is quick to give Kitty Brown — then Kitty Vermilyea — primary credit for getting the organization up and running in 1987, after attending a conference sponsored by the Dutchess County Land Trust and the Trust for Public Land (TPL).

Benepe plans to take a senior position for a national nonprofit, the Trust For Public Land, whose mission is to «create close to home parks in and near cities.»

Winthrop Campus students worked with The Trust for Public Land's Playgrounds Program to brainstorm ideas and, in the process, got to learn about designing a playground.

«Information on climate change ranges in geographic and temporal scales, and is often hard to relate to forest management and planning,» said Patricia Butler, the report's lead author and a climate change outreach specialist with the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, a collaboration of the Forest Service, Michigan Technological University, the Trust for Public Land, the University of Minnesota, and the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement.

Washington, DC About Blog City Parks Blog is a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance to chronicle the news and issues of the urban park movement.

The data for garden plots is from the Trust for Public Land and refers to individual cities, as does the data for dog parks.

So we took a look at acres of parkland per 1,000 people from the Trust for Public Land's public report on parks in 2012.

Finally, we looked at The Trust for Public Land for data on the number of city park garden plots per 10,000 residents.

Washington, DC About Blog City Parks Blog is a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance to chronicle the news and issues of the urban park movement.

This year, the Institute and Cavallo Point Lodge will welcome groups like the Trust for Public Land, Environmental Defense Fund, Public Health Law and Policy, and the Marine Mammal Center through its special Institute group rate.

Barner, who earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Washington University, began her career on the East Coast, working as an architect and project manager for Skidmore Owings and Merrill, the City of Lowell, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, and the Trust for Public Land.

Washington, DC About Blog City Parks Blog is a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance to chronicle the news and issues of the urban park movement.

She also serves on the Advisory Board of the International Print Center New York and on the New York Board of the Trust for Public Land.

From 1999 to 2005, she worked as a freelance photographer for the New York Daily News and the Trust for Public Land, and overseas in Afghanistan, the Baltic countries, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Iran, Jordan, Kosovo, Pakistan and Russia.

The other big ones are groups like the Trust for Public Land, the Wildlife Conservation Society (which includes the Bronx Zoo) and World Wildlife Fund.

«Through our work with the U.S. forest sector, we have seen the importance of reducing uncertainty for carbon market participants to encourage participation,» said Jad Daley, climate program director at The Trust for Public Land.

The Trust for Public Land was what is known as an «eco-profiteer:» an organization charged with buying private land at distress prices from rural owners, usually under threat of federal condemnation, then, with the help of huge lobbying efforts and insider congressional contacts, selling it to the federal government at fair market prices and taking a cut.

The Energy Foundation began as a «project» of the Trust For Public Land.

Paul has served on the board of many environmental organizations, including Center for Plant Conservation, Shelburne Farms, Trust for Public Land, Conservation International, and National Audubon Society.

Among the 40 or so non-city-leaders were resilience - focused representatives of various federal agencies (including the alphabet soup of FEMA, HUD, DOE, EPA, and NIST), along with experts from more than a dozen leading organizations whose work touches on resilience: the Urban Land Institute, World Resources Institute, Trust for Public Land, Rocky Mountain Institute, The Clinton Foundation, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, STAR Communities, Global Green, and yours truly from the Resilient Design Institute.

Since its 1972 launch, the Trust for Public Land has completed more than 3,500 land - conservation projects in 47 states, protecting more than two million acres that define America's communities and are central to its ecosystems.