Portfolio Archives: 5: South Texas

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

 

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

Contact: Molly Morgan

Phone: (817) 916-0456

Email: molly.morgan@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

Contact: Richard Gibbons, Director of Conservation Strategy

Phone: (512) 488-1266

Email: richard.gibbons@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

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

Phone: (512) 477-1712

Email: jshackelford@conservationfund.org

Website: www.conservationfund.org

Mission: Protecting valuable, conservable land is essential to America’s environmental health and economic vitality.  The Conservation Fund’s land conservation efforts make it possible for conservationists, community leaders, land trusts and government to swiftly and efficiently safeguard these properties for wildlife, recreation, historic significance or to help balance our built environment.

Counties Served: Statewide

Contact: Mark Steinbach

Phone: (512) 301-6363

Email: mark@texaslandconservancy.org

Website: www.texaslandconservancy.org

Mission: The mission of Texas Land Conservancy is to conserve natural areas in Texas and to protect the physical and ecological integrity of their wildlife habitat, native plant communities, and scenic landscapes for the benefit of present and future generations.

Counties Served: Statewide

Phone: (512) 392-2288 

Email: info@texasprairie.org

Website: www.texasprairie.org

Mission: The Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT) is a non-profit membership organization and land trust dedicated to the conservation, restoration, and appreciation of native prairies, savannas, and other grasslands in Texas. NPAT protects over 4,031 acres of native Texas prairie, including over 1340 acres of endangered/threatened tallgrass prairie.

Counties Served: Statewide