American Farmland Trust

Contact: Sarah Fulton-Smith

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Email: sfultonsmith@farmland.org

Website: www.farmland.org

Mission: The mission of the American Farmland Trust (AFT) is to save the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping
farmers on the land. AFT launched the conservation agriculture movement and has been bringing agriculture and the environment together since 1980. We take a holistic approach to farmland and ranchland, protecting it from development, promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on it. Agriculture offers the most promising solutions in our fight against climate change—but only when we support farming can it fulfill its promise to feed us and heal our planet.

Counties Served: Statewide

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Scenic Galveston

Address: 20 Colony Park Circle
Galveston, TX 77551

Email: lalise@earthlink.net

Website: www.scenicgalveston.org

Mission: The mission of Scenic Galveston is to conserve, preserve and restore the natural resources of the Galveston Bay area.
Formed in 1992 to create a high-visibility marsh preserve along the highway approach to Galveston Island and now conserving 3000 acres of emergent inter-tidal saltmarsh and coastal prairie.

Counties Served: Harris, Galveston, Brazoria, Chambers, and Liberty

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Unique Places to Save

 

Contact: Michael Scisco

Phone: (505) 603-3636

Email: mscisco@uniqueplacestosave.org

Website: www.uniqueplacestosave.org

Mission: Our mission is to conserve our waters, wetlands and habitats through the protection and stewardship of mitigation areas. Unique Places to Save has a specific program dedicated to holding conservation easements over mitigation projects, whether stream, wetland, endangered species or other types of mitigation scenarios (www.uniqueplacesmitigation.org). We coordinate with private mitigation companies, landowners, investors and regulators to ensure mitigation projects are properly stewarded and include resources for long term management and maintenance.

Counties Served: Statewide

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The Trust for Public Land

Contact: Robert Kent

Phone: (850) 222-7911 x23

Email: robert.kent@tpl.org

Website: www.tpl.org/our-work/texas

Mission: At The Trust for Public Land, we create parks and protect land for people – for you – ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. We believe our work should span cities to wilderness. Protecting the iconic beauty of Texas is the only way to ensure continued enjoyment of the state’s incredible natural places. We’re working in strategic locations around the state where we know we can use our national strategies and processes to make the most impact for the future of Texans.

Counties Served: Statewide

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Audubon Texas

Contact: Romey Swanson, Director of Conservation Strategy

Phone: (512) 667-8124

Email: rswanson@audubon.org

Website: www.txaudubon.org

Mission: Audubon Texas is the state branch of the National Audubon Society, dedicated for over 100 years to conserving and restoring natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity. For more than a century, Audubon has built a legacy of conservation success by mobilizing the strength of its network of members, chapters, Audubon centers, state offices, and dedicated professional staff to connect people with nature and the power to protect it.

Counties Served: Statewide

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Aransas First

Contact: Earl Matthew

Phone: (361) 790-3074

Website: aransasfirst.org

Mission: A 501(c)(3) organization founded to identify, acquire, & protect sensitive Coastal Bend habitat essential to the nurture of birds, wildlife, & people.

Counties Served: Aransas

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Cradle of Texas Conservancy

Contact: Darrel Schwebel

Phone: (979) 236-0659

Email: varnercwinery@gmail.com

Mission: A non-government agency dedicated to outdoor recreation, by helping acquire sites, donations, grants and information needed to promote recreation and to protect sensitive areas within Brazoria and the surrounding Counties.

Counties Served: Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda and Wharton

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Texas Cave Management Association

Email: membership@tcmacaves.org

Website: www.tcmacaves.org

Mission: TCMA exists to acquire, conserve and manage caves, and to promote research and education regarding caves and karst while providing responsible access to our preserves.

Counties Served: Statewide

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Bayou Land Conservancy

Contact: Jill Boullion

Phone: 281-576-1634

Email: info@bayouland.org

Website: www.bayouland.org

Mission: We preserve land along streams for flood control, clean water, and wildlife. We focus our conservation program in the Lake Houston watershed.

Counties Served: Harris, Montgomery, Walker, Waller, San Jacinto, Liberty

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The Valley Land Fund

Contact: Debralee Rodriguez

Phone: (956) 686-6429

Email: info@valleylandfund.com

Website: www.valleylandfund.com

Mission: The mission of The Valley Land Fund is to preserve, expand, and enhance the native wildlife habitat of the Deep South Texas through education, land ownership, and the creation of economic incentives. The Valley Land Fund assists with conservation of native habitat through the protection of land in the southernmost counties of deep South Texas – the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Counties Served: Cameron, Hildago, Willacy, Starr

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